Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration camp in Poland that stood at the center of the Holocaust and focus for their systematic slaughter of the Jewish people.     Between 1940 and 1945, more than one million Jews, religious leaders, disabled persons, and other innocent victims were viciously and mercilessly

India and China agreed on Monday to resume direct passenger flights between the two countries, after almost five years without a direct connection. Passenger flights between were initially halted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and did not resume due to deteriorating relations between Beijing and New Delhi. India’s Foreign Ministry said it had

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions, a new study says. Currently, cold temperatures kill more people

CNN  —  Thousands of wildfires tear through southern Italy every year, fueled by scorching temperatures and the hot, dry, sirocco winds that sweep in from the Sahara. The climate crisis is pouring gasoline on these blazes, but the Mafia may be lighting the spark, according to new research. While hot, dry winds prime the land

David Weigel: When did you first realize that something had gone badly wrong in the battle for our attention? Chris Hayes: I was covering ISIS, and it became very clear that we were in this kind of conundrum. They were pulling off these acts of spectacular ultraviolence that were horrific beyond measure. These were obviously