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Inside Climate News: Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa Four Times More Likely, Study Suggests
Fueled by unusually warm waters, Hurricane Melissa this week turned into one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. Now a new rapid attribution study suggests human-induced climate change made the deadly tropical cyclone four times more likely.
Hurricane Melissa collided with Jamaica on Tuesday, wreaking havoc across the island before tearing through nearby Haiti and Cuba. The storm, which reached Category 5, reserved for the hurricanes with the most powerful winds, has killed at least 40 people across the Caribbean so far. …
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NY Times: Bill Gates has a point
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Dean Blundell: This Week, a Prince Lost His Title—Because an Ordinary Woman Wouldn’t Be Silent
There are weeks when history thunders. Thanks to the bravery of Virginia Giuffre and dozens of brave, heroic women, this was one of them.
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Jess Piper: Universal Truths
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His name is Art Cullen, and he won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing. His book is titled Dear Marty, We Crapped in Our Nest, and I was smitten from the first page. From the first rural Iowa sentence I consumed.
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Ruth Ann Crystal MD: COVID & Health News, 11/2/25
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 2, 2025
Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes for more than two hours, mainstreaming the podcaster whose praise for Hitler, vows to kill Jews, denial of the Holocaust, and apparently gleeful embrace of racism and sexism has, in the past, led establishment Republicans to avoid him.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV: MAGA extremism has shown its Nazi colors
Enough is never enough. You can never come up with enough new ways to praise Trump. …
I’m sure you can come up with a list of your own. …
Nothing is extreme enough for the MAGA faithful. …
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