Earth is warming faster than previously thought, scientists say, and the window is closing to avoid catastrophic outcomes  —  (CNN)As the world battles historic droughts, landscape-altering wildfires and deadly floods, a landmark report from global scientists says the window is rapidly closing …

Cuomo's Top Aide, Melissa DeRosa, Resigns as He Fights to Survive  —  The governor's confidante helped lead efforts to retaliate against one of the women who accused him of sexual harassment, the attorney general's report found.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's top aide …

Trump's coup attempt grows even more worrisome as new details emerge  —  What happened on Jan. 6 was horrifying: an attempted coup, inflamed by social media, incited by the defeated president and televised in real time.  What happened before Jan. 6, we are coming to learn, was equally horrifying …

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. Is Granted Preliminary Injunction Allowing it to Sail from Florida with 100% Vaccination of Guests and Crew  —  Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.  —  Company Goes to Great Lengths to Prioritize Health and Safety of its Guests, Crew and the Communities Visited

‘This Is Really Scary’: Kids Struggle With Long Covid  —  Lingering physical, mental and neurological symptoms are affecting children as well as adults, including many who had mild reactions to the initial coronavirus infection.  —  Will Grogan stared blankly at his ninth-grade biology classwork.

As Taliban Capture Cities, U.S. Says Afghan Forces Must Fend for Themselves  —  The muted American response to the Taliban siege shows in no uncertain terms that the U.S. war in Afghanistan is over.  —  WASHINGTON — If the Taliban had seized three provincial capitals in northern Afghanistan a year ago …

For first time, average pay for supermarket and restaurant workers tops $15 an hour  —  $15 an hour is suddenly the rule, not the exception, for U.S. workers.  It's a major shift from pre-pandemic norms.  —  The U.S. labor market hit a new milestone recently: For the first time …

COVID-19 cases among kids overwhelming Florida hospitals: doc  —  Pediatric hospitals in Florida have become “completely overwhelmed” with young patients battling COVID-19 amid the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, a doctor says.  —  The grim development comes as Florida …

POLITICO Playbook: What Biden, Schumer, McConnell, Sinema and Portman learned from BIF  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BREAKING: Treasury Secretary JANET YELLEN weighs in on Congress' handling of the debt ceiling.  —  “In recent years Congress has addressed the debt limit through regular order …

The Lost Diary of Bobby McIlvaine  —  Grief, conspiracy, and one family's search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11  —  When bobby mcilvaine died on September 11, 2001, his desk at home was a study in plate tectonics, coated in shifting piles of leather-bound diaries and yellow legal pads.

Latvia warns of risk of ‘incident’ between Nato and Russia  —  Belarus ‘border crisis’ and military exercise could cause ‘misunderstanding’, says foreign minister  —  The “weaponisation” of migration by Belarus on its border with Lithuania and an imminent military exercise involving Russian …

Off the Wall  —  Here's a delightful headline, followed by a charming article, written by a guy named Jonathan V. Last.  I don't think he likes me.  Strap in.  It's a doozy.  —  MIKE ROWE'S DIRTY LIES  —  The voice of the working class goes anti-anti-anti-vaxx.

Trump Spox Attacks Fox News for Editing Election Lie Out of Trump Interview With Dan Bongino on YouTube  —  Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington went on the attack against Fox News after finding that they edited former President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated election claims out of an interview he gave to the network.

The world is nowhere near the end of the pandemic, says famed epidemiologist Larry Brilliant  — The pandemic is not coming to an end soon — given that only a small proportion of the world's population has been vaccinated, said Larry Brilliant, a well-known epidemiologist.

Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance  —  Colombia-based call center workers who provide outsourced customer service to some of the nation's largest companies are being pressured to sign a contract that lets their employer install cameras in their homes …

Trump Sails Away as Rudy Giuliani Drowns in Legal Bills  —  As Rudy Giuliani struggles with mounting legal bills, the former president's longtime friend can't even get a Retweet.  —  As Rudy Giuliani's legal bills have piled up in recent months—and as federal investigators intensify …

GOP megadonors flock to Tim Scott, building 2024 buzz  —  Oracle's Larry Ellison is the biggest name in a group of major Republican donors sending big money to South Carolina's Scott.  —  South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott has quietly become a powerhouse fundraiser and a major force within the Republican Party.

Has the pandemic put property rights in the crosshairs?  —  On Aug. 3, amid pressure from members of the Democratic Party's progressive wing, President Joe Biden announced a new moratorium on evictions after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s previous ban expired on July 31.

Too many people are dying right now.  —  A few weeks ago, in a back-of-the-envelope calculation during an interview with Eric Topol of Scripps, I suggested that because of widespread vaccination of the most vulnerable elderly, we may have reduced overall mortality risk in the country by 90 percent.