Jamaica has joined other small island nations at the United Nations climate talks to urge immediate action on climate change.

More than 115 countries have now lodged updated climate plans with the United Nations, required under the terms of the 2015 Paris Agreement Read more at The Business Times.

On November 14, 2025, the UN Human Rights Council held a special session on the human rights situation in and around El Fasher, Sudan, and adopted (without a

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Trump said that countries continuing economic relations with Russia will face "very severe" penalties under new legislation being drafted by Republican lawmakers.

The Native American democracy that the U.S. founders were most likely to know about was the Iroquois Confederacy. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee, the “people of the longhouse,” because the nations of the confederacy have to get along like multiple families in a longhouse.

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The strongest divisions in our politics may emerge from patterns of early American settlement.

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