The withdrawal process could take four years to complete, meaning a final decision would be up to the American voters in the next presidential election. Rich and poor countries alike said they were sticking to the climate accord, with or without the United States.
In quitting the Paris climate accord, President Trump creates a vacuum of global leadership that gives allies and adversaries the chance to reorder the world’s power structure.
President Trump’s decision to exit the climate pact is a setback for the worldwide effort to combat global warming. Here’s a guide to what it means.
Brad Plumer, a climate reporter for The New York Times, explains the consequences of President Trump’s decision today that he will withdraw from the landmark global warming agreement. President Trump railed against China, India and other international polluters at an address in which he announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate accord. The president’s withdrawal from the Paris accord seemed more about his belief in the potential to save jobs and ease economic burdens than any disbelief in climate science.
An unnamed group, which includes 30 mayors, three governors, 80 university presidents and over 100 businesses, is negotiating with the United Nations to accept its emissions reduction plan.
Several large corporations quickly expressed dismay with President Trump’s decision and said they would continue their environmental efforts.
Polls showed that a withdrawal would not be popular with voters, but Mr. Trump forged ahead anyway, seeing a victory with his core supporters.
The Russian president denied any state role, but said that cyberattacks might have been the work of private citizens. “Anything is possible in this virtual world,” Mr. Putin said Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Thursday: A conversation with Mr. Abdul-Jabbar, a rallying cry on the environment, and living in downtown San Diego for $525 a month.
Ethics experts questioned the validity of a retroactive exemption that allowed Stephen K. Bannon, the senior strategist, to communicate with editors at Breitbart.
Executives have some power to block access to internal information, but a move by the president to prevent the former F.B.I. director from testifying could test its limits.
A new rule nearing approval would greatly expand the number of employers and insurers that could claim moral objections to contraception coverage.
Senators Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont and Al Franken of Minnesota wrote letters asking the F.B.I. to investigate whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions perjured himself.
The bombing has cast a shadow over the new peace efforts in several ways, showing how fragile every facet of peacemaking can be in the middle of a raging war.
A teacher named in the Choate sexual abuse report now stands accused of inappropriate conduct at three of the four schools where he taught. “Take a chance,” he urged a 14-year-old.
The State Department had approved the sale of handguns to the Turkish presidential detail that attacked American demonstrators, but that deal now has resistance from at least one lawmaker.
Thousands of Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro called on President Michel Temer to resign after revelations of his involvement in another corruption scandal. At the beginning of every month, there are new movies and TV shows added to streaming platforms. Here are the titles we think are most interesting.
June brings a comedy for those who prefer to be weirded-out; a show for theatergoers with itchy feet; and Kevin Spacey in the role of Clarence Darrow.
Kevin Durant, the new guy to the rivalry, leads Golden State to victory in yet another lopsided N.B.A. playoff game.
Paul R. LePage, Maine’s Republican governor, commuted the sentences of 17 state prisoners, saying he wants to make a dent in the aging state’s tight labor market.
A man whose oversize head has stitches that just coincidentally match those on a baseball gets his say.
Dallas and Houston, faced with possible bankruptcies tied to underfunded pensions, will be able to reduce some pension payments under new state laws.
This is the third black-hole smashup that astronomers have detected since they started keeping watch on the cosmos back in September 2015.
Energy is high, at least for the moment, as the health care debate and problems for the Trump administration give the party fresh hope.
As workers in China complain of excessive hours and seek higher pay, the factory owner is sending more jobs to Africa.
David Chen was a 25-year-old student when he joined protesters in Beijing in 1989. Unlike most of them, he had a camera, a rare luxury in China at the time.
A fan posted a video on Twitter showing the longtime Mets mascot raising his middle finger as he walked down a stadium tunnel.
This 1994 firefighting memoir, by the Southern writer Larry Brown, vividly captures both fear and the sort of pride that comes with mastery.
This assessment of the Beatles’ album ran in The New York Times on June 18, 1967.
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