Senate panel demands testimony from ex-Obama officials in revived Biden probe

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson, sent letters to former…

If the PM spurns Albanese’s climate peace offer, Labor will be left with a painful problem | Katharine Murphy

We are going to track back to the week’s developments on energy policy, but I want…

Australia needs a clear plan to address inadequate environmental policy, not buck-passing and hand-wringing | Lyndon Schneiders

Next week, Prof Graeme Samuel, the former chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, will…

House passes bill to provide D.C. statehood

The House on Friday voted to establish the District of Columbia as the nation’s 51st state,…

Rep. Steve Cohen launches push for Barr impeachment probe

Rep. Steve Cohen. | Win McNamee/Getty Images Rep. Steve Cohen is urging Democrats to consider impeaching…

The week in wildlife – in pictures

With his regular haunts closed because of Covid-19, Mumbai photographer and naturalist Rizwan Mithawala turned his…

Government climate advisers running scared of change, says leading scientist

Kevin Anderson, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, had a familiar reaction to the latest…

The secretive government agency planting ‘cyanide bombs’ across the US

The call came over Tony Manu’s police radio one March day in 2017: some sort of…

Cloud cuckoo land? How one bird’s epic migration stunned scientists

When Onon took off above the rolling hills of the Khurkh valley in Mongolia last June,…

Amid national crisis on police brutality and racism, Congress flails

As the United States faces its biggest crisis over civil rights in decades, Congress is poised…