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Representatives from almost 200 nations agreed to set a target of conserving 30% of the Earth’s surface for nature by 2030 at the United Nations’ COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal, Canada.  

Key Facts: The global targets for 2030 also included investing at least $200 billion per year from both public and private sources, eliminating at least $500 billion per year in subsidies

The U.S. economy added 232,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate fell from 5.4% to 5.2%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. It's the lowest monthly number of jobs added since January. Economists predicted that roughly 750,000 jobs would be added; reports across the spectrum cited the recent rise in COVID-19 cases and the spread of the Delta variant as reasons for the slowed

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was convicted of third-degree rape and first-degree commission of a criminal sexual act by a Manhattan jury Monday. He was acquitted of two counts of predatory sexual assault and one count of first-degree rape. Many throughout the media spectrum framed the news as a win for the #MeToo movement, but some, especially on the right, framed the verdict as too

Federal COVID-19 masking guidance is at odds with new rules in many states — regardless of whether the state is led by a Republican or Democrat.

California, New York and a number of other Democrat-led states announced plans this week to drop some or all COVID-19 mask mandates, and nearly every state in the U.S. now plans to end mask mandates by the end of March. Meanwhile, the Centers