World & Nation

  • Panel calls for new legislation on war powers

    The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan study group chaired by former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher.
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  • FDA slaps a warning on Cipro, other drugs

    Drug safety officials Tuesday imposed the government's most urgent safety warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing evidence that they may lead to tendon ruptures, a serious injury that can leave patients incapacitated and needing extensive surgery.
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  • G-8 backs 50% cut in greenhouse emissions

    World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in half by midcentury to stave off global warming. Unimpressed environmentalists called the effort too slow and too uncertain.
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  • Glaciers on Mount Shasta keep growing

    Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing.
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Greg Davis, of a fire crew from Colorado, takes down hot spots in a wildfire-ravaged forest in Big Sur, Calif., on Monday. (Marcio Jose Sanchez, Associated Press)
Marcio Jose Sanchez, Associated Press
As some flee fires anew, others return for a time
Greg Davis, of a fire crew from Colorado, takes down hot spots in a wildfire-ravaged forest in Big Sur, Calif., on Monday.