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It’s no secret that the NBA and other sports enterprises are heavily funded by China, a country of avid sports fans.

The fight against climate change is enormous and complex, but speakers at the Duke Climate Commitment announcement on Sept. 29 had a message of hope and optimism, powered by advances in research and

The party has largely moved beyond denying the existence of climate change but continues to oppose dramatic action to halt it, worried about the short-term economic consequences.

By Syndicated Content By Maria Caspani and Nathan Layne (Reuters) – When a majority of Cornell University’s Republican club voted to endorse President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, many of its moderate members left the group. After Joe Biden won and club leader Weston Barker wrote an op-ed in the school paper urging people to accept the Democrat as the legitimately elected president, pro-Trump members defected. The club remains deeply divided months later, Barker said...

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future” work in many fields and endeavors, embracing every corner and intersection of health and medicine, science and technology, and business and entrepreneurship. They are...