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President Joe Biden sets new US climate target just weeks before Donald Trump takes office | Science, Climate & Tech News
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President Joe Biden has set fresh climate targets for the United States before climate sceptic Donald Trump takes office in January. Today the outgoing president has unveiled a new goal to slash US emissions of greenhouse gases by 61% from 2005 levels by 2035. The 10-year plan should generate “more good-paying jobs, more affordable energy,…
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Donald Trump watches SpaceX launch with Elon Musk, but test flight does not go as planned | US News
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully performed another launch of its Starship rocket in front of President-elect Donald Trump, but the test flight did not go perfectly. The 400ft (122m) high rocket system, designed to land astronauts on the moon and ferry crews to Mars, lifted off from Boca Chica, Texas. The first stage, called Super…
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Climate fight is ‘bigger than one election’, says US climate envoy John Podesta, after Donald Trump’s election win | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The fight against climate change is “bigger than one election”, US envoy John Podesta has said. Mr Podesta was speaking at COP29 after his party lost the White House to Republican and climate sceptic Donald Trump. The re-election of Mr Trump, who is expected to again pull the United States out of global climate treaties…
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Donald Trump is likely to scale back America’s climate targets – will other countries follow suit? | Science, Climate & Tech News
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After a year of ever more extreme weather and continually rising global temperatures, it’s no wonder this year’s UN climate summit has been called – once again – the “last-chance saloon”. Yet swaggering out through its swing doors goes president-elect Donald Trump. The timing of his election win, with its promise to withdraw the US…
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Donald Trump posts fake images of Taylor Swift endorsement | Ents & Arts News
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Donald Trump appears to have shared a series of fake images on his social media site, suggesting Taylor Swift and some of her fans are endorsing him for the upcoming election. The pictures posted by the former Republican president on Truth Social included a mock poster of Swift dressed in red, white and blue, with…
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Elon Musk set to interview Donald Trump – as ex-US president returns to X | US News
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Elon Musk is set to interview Donald Trump on the social media platform X. Mr Musk teased the “live conversation” with Mr Trump, saying it would be “unscripted” and therefore “highly entertaining”. The former US president – whose account on X (when it was known as Twitter) was suspended in 2021 after his supporters stormed…
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Donald Trump breaks silence on Instagram to promote his NFTs – but critics say the art is ‘cringey’ | US News
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Donald Trump has released a second collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as the 2024 presidential race heats up. The surreal pieces of digital art depict the former president as George Washington, a chess piece and a lion wrangler… but not at the same time. A total of 47,000 NFTs were made available and cost $99…
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Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram pages are restored after ban | US News
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Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts have been restored after he was banned in the wake of the deadly Capitol riot two years ago. Users of the social media sites can again see the former US president’s pages, with the last post on his Facebook made on 6 January 2021, when he wrote: “I am…
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Donald Trump allowed back on Facebook and Instagram after two-year ban | US News
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Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will be reinstated after a two-year suspension following the 6 January insurrection. Facebook parent Meta said in a blog post on Wednesday it would be adding “new guardrails” to ensure there are no “repeat offenders” who violate its rules. “In the event that Mr Trump posts further violating content,…
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Donald Trump apparently back on Twitter after Elon Musk poll votes to lift his ban | US News
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Donald Trump appears to be back on Twitter after an online poll voted for his return. The platform’s new owner Elon Musk had announced on Saturday evening that following the vote, the former president would be reinstated, almost two years after he was removed following the 6 January US Capitol riots. On hearing the news,…