McCarthy finally names GOP members to Clyburn’s coronavirus oversight panel

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. | Win McNamee/Getty Images By JOHN BRESNAHAN 05/07/2020 11:44 AM EDT…

Navy secretary nominee slams service’s ‘failure of leadership’

Kenneth Braithwaite testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee nominations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington…

Finding sanctuary in photographing nature during lockdown

Cutting short our holiday to Cuba as Covid-19 took off, it was an eerie feeling transferring…

How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and the far right? | George Monbiot

Denial never dies; it just goes quiet and waits. Today, after years of irrelevance, the climate…

Spectral dance of bioluminescence in California – in pictures

Blue waves, illuminated by bioluminescent algae, off Blacks Beach, La Jolla, California. The algae can chemically…

World cannot return to ‘business as usual’ after Covid-19, say mayors

Mayors from many of the world’s leading cities have warned there can be no return to…

‘Promiscuous treatment of nature’ will lead to more pandemics – scientists

Humanity’s “promiscuous treatment of nature” needs to change or there will be more deadly pandemics such…

Australia has found common ground to respond to Covid-19. We can do the same for climate change | Cassandra Goldie, Innes Willox, Emma Herd

In just a few short months, many more people in Australia have faced greater adversity in…

Loeffler recuses herself from Agriculture panel, distancing herself from stocks issue

Sen. Kelly Loeffler. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images Sen. Kelly Loeffler is removing herself from a Senate…

Republicans praise Trump’s pandemic response with Senate majority at risk

Senate Republicans are settling on their pandemic message as they fight to save their majority: President…