Italian ryegrass is a common weed in arable cropsJohn Cussans Weeds resistant to the herbicide glyphosate have found been found in the UK for first time. The species in question, called Italian ryegrass, is very widespread in the UK, but specimens impervious to the chemical have only been found on one farm in Kent. Glyphosate has been helping farmers adopt more environmentally friendly farming practices known as regenerative agriculture, says John Cussans, a weed management expert at consultancy firm ADAS. His team confirmed that the plants were resistant in tests in a greenhouse. “It may affect our ability to transition…
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MIAMI — About 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 230,000 Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday, barely a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office with promises of hardline immigration policies.Biden’s administration has strongly supported Temporary Protected Status, which he has broadly expanded to cover about 1 million people. TPS faces an uncertain future under Trump, who tried to sharply curtail its use during his first term as president. Federal regulations would allow the extensions to be terminated early, although that’s never been done before.Homeland Security also extended TPS…
The Supreme Court seemed inclined on Friday to uphold a law that could effectively ban TikTok, the wildly popular app used by half of the country.Even as several justices expressed concerns that the law was in tension with the First Amendment, a majority appeared satisfied that it was aimed not at TikTok’s speech rights but rather at its ownership, which the government says is controlled by China. The law requires the app’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell TikTok by Jan. 19. If it does not, the law requires the app to be shut down.The government offered two rationales for the…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldThe IMF has warned that jitters surrounding Donald Trump’s threat to impose trade tariffs were driving up longer-term borrowing costs and would add to pressures facing the global economy in 2025. Speaking to reporters in Washington on Friday, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said global economic policy faced “quite a lot of uncertainty” in 2025, particularly around the trade policy of the world’s largest economy. “That uncertainty is actually expressed globally through higher long-term interest rates,” Georgieva said, although she noted…
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who will now be forever known as the weirdo who ran with Kamala Harris in 2024 and failed, is now endorsing gun control activist David Hogg in his bid to be vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. The 2024 election showed that Democrats have a serious problem with men, who are fleeing their party in droves. It’s not clear how having David Hogg in a leadership position would do anything to help fix this problem for them. None of that seems to matter to Walz, who believes Hogg will provide the ‘courageous leadership our party…
Mandy Moore, beloved actress and singer, has found herself at the center of a heated online debate after sharing a GoFundMe campaign to support her brother-in-law’s family, who lost their home in the devastating California wildfires.While many sympathized with the cause and praised Moore for stepping up during a time of need, others criticized the star, questioning why a millionaire would turn to the public for donations. The backlash intensified on social media, with some labeling her plea as “tone-deaf” and accusing her of being out of touch with the struggles of everyday people.Despite the criticism, Mandy Moore has stood…
Zuckerberg doubled down in an interview Friday with podcaster Joe Rogan, comparing the fact-checking program with “something out of 1984”, in a reference to George Orwell’s dystopian novel. He added that the program, which began in 2016, was “destroying so much trust, especially in the United States”. Zuckerberg also expressed regret for giving “too much deference” to the traditional media, criticising it for pushing the narrative that social media misinformation had swung the 2016 election in favour of Trump. “CONSEQUENCES” Zuckerberg stunned many when he said on Tuesday that fact-checkers were “too politically biased” and added that the program had…
Karen State, Myanmar – Thaw Hti was a tiny speck amid a march of hundreds of thousands that snaked its way through the streets of Yangon in 2021, demanding a return to democracy after the Myanmar military seized power. “We had signboards and they had guns,” she said, recounting with bitterness the events of March 2021. In the intervening four years, much has changed for Thaw Hti and her generation in Myanmar. After the military slaughtered hundreds in bloody crackdowns on those pro-democracy protests, young people fled to territory controlled by ethnic armed groups in Myanmar’s border regions with Thailand,…
Ohio State running back TreVeyon Henderson made up for an early blunder in a major way at the end of the first half of the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Cotton Bowl against Texas. The senior running back scored a 75-yard touchdown on a screen pass from quarterback Will Howard with 13 seconds left in the second quarter to give Ohio State (12-2) a 14-7 lead.With a win, the Buckeyes will play Notre Dame (14-1) in the CFP national championship game on Jan. 20. His score came on the first offensive play from scrimmage after Texas (13-2) tied the…
I am utterly devastated by the Los Angeles wildfires, shaking with rage and grief. The Altadena community near Pasadena, where the Eaton fire has damaged or destroyed at least 5,000 structures, was my home for 14 years.I moved my family away two years ago because, as California’s climate kept growing drier, hotter and more fiery, I feared that our neighborhood would burn. But even I didn’t think fires of this scale and severity would raze it and other large areas of the city this soon. And yet images of Altadena this week show a hellscape, like a landscape out of…