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However, mankind can stop the destruction through “transformative change” that could translate into globalism replacing national sovereignty and nations’ self-determination. “The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever,” Sir Robert Watson, chairman of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), which produced the report.

“Our rules, and the basis of separating genders for competition, are based on physiological classification rather thana identification,” said a statement from Paul Bossi, president of 100% RAW Powerlifting Federation.

WASHINGTON — Private tensions between Justice Department leaders and Robert Mueller’s team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion Wednesday as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at the special counsel’s ‘‘snitty’’ complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report. Testifying for the first time since releasing Mueller’s report, Barr said he was surprised Mueller did not reach a conclusion on whether President Trump had tried to obstruct justice, and that he had felt compelled to step in with his own judgment that the president had committed

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr has told the House Judiciary Committee that he won’t show up for a scheduled hearing Thursday about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, according to a congressional aide. Barr’s decision not to attend the hearing dramatically escalates tensions with the Democratic-controlled committee, which has already authorized a subpoena to the Justice Department to obtain an unredacted version of Mueller’s report as well as the underlying evidence. The Justice Department objected to the format of the hearing, whi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday accused Attorney General William Barr of lying to Congress a day after his Wednesday testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “He lied to Congress, he lied to Congress, and if anybody else did that it would be considered a crime,” Pelosi said during a Thursday morning press conference.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Moore, a conservative commentator whom President Donald Trump had tapped for the Federal Reserve board, withdrew from consideration Thursday after losing Republican support in the Senate, largely over his past inflammatory writings about women. Trump tweeted the news of Moore’s withdrawal even while describing him as ‘‘a great pro-growth economist and a truly fine person.’’ ‘‘Steve won the battle of ideas including Tax Cuts and deregulation which have produced non-inflationary prosperity for all Americans,’’ the president tweeted.

House Democratic leaders facing liberal calls for impeaching MORE are confronting increasing pressure from an unlikely faction: Republicans who appear eager to goad them into it.

The United States is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in response to what it called "troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" from Iran, national security adviser MORE announced on Sunday. Bolton said in a statement that the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force would be deployed to a region overseen by the Pentagon's U.S.