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Experts cited by the Associated Press said air conditioning and other cooling measures save thousands of lives each year even as their energy use and emissions worsen global warming.
Households and governments must expand access to cooling without forcing vulnerable people to choose between dangerous heat, unaffordable power bills, and higher future climate costs.
President Donald Trump posted two unlabeled AI-generated videos depicting a US attack on Iran’s Kharg Island, and a US official later said the attack had not occurred.
During active US-Iran hostilities, a fabricated strike shared by the president can complicate military communication, news verification, adversary interpretation, and the permanent record.
US officials may require parents to prove their citizenship or immigration status when they apply for passports for their children, Reuters reported.
Citizen children could face delayed or denied travel when a parent’s certificates are missing, names conflict, records are sealed, or another agency controls the needed file.
ICE said it has enough body cameras after its immigration officers were involved in more than two dozen shootings during the Trump administration.
Without enforceable activation, retention, audit, and disclosure rules, crucial evidence from an ICE shooting can remain missing or inaccessible despite the new equipment.
ProPublica found that University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy advocated against kratom bans without routinely disclosing support and reimbursements from the American Kratom Association.
Lawmakers, regulators, journals, and readers may have weighed McCurdy’s kratom research and testimony without knowing enough about the industry group supporting parts of his work.
Authorities have demolished hundreds of homes occupied by working-poor residents near Islamabad’s Bari Imam Sufi shrine within the past year, and neighbors fear more removals.
The demolitions could preserve a pilgrimage destination while displacing the workers, families, and neighborhood memory that sustain its daily social life.
The US Postal Service is developing an online system tied to President Donald Trump’s mail-voting executive order, while a whistleblower alleges the work is rushed and sloppy.
If courts permit the policy and the system fails, mailed-ballot decisions could burden voters and election offices with errors that are difficult to detect or reverse before deadlines.
Nepalese authorities began burying unidentified flood victims in a mass grave in Chitwan district after DNA sampling as the recovered death toll reached 1,003.
Families need durable links among names, DNA samples, grave locations, and recovered remains if interrupted funeral rites and identification are to remain possible.
Nearly 200 people who witnessed Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting at Utah Valley University have applied for Utah victims’ benefits after thousands saw the killing in person.
Utah must assess trauma claims from a mass public event without demanding impossible recollection, while setting an eligibility boundary that a viral audience will leave many people outside.
France is targeting online retailers Shein and Temu with fines over fast fashion, according to Reuters.
Penalties will protect shoppers and change retail practices only if regulators can preserve product records, identify responsible sellers, and make violations cost more than continued sales.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art canceled a planned Met Gala exhibition honoring designer John Galliano after objections to his past antisemitic and racist statements.
The Met must decide whether cancellation ends its public accounting or begins a documented study of how museums present influential work made by compromised artists.
A jury convicted Duane “Keffe D” Davis of first-degree murder for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by killing of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas.
The conviction gives courts, journalists, educators, and fans an adjudicated finding to distinguish from the rumors that shaped public memory during a 30-year delay.