BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -With more than a half-million people worldwide dying from heat-related causes every year, a group of philanthropies is putting $300 million into developing ​life-saving solutions as global temperatures continue to rise. The money, announced this week at the COP30 climate negotiations in ‌Brazil, is aimed at developing data and figuring out the best investments for tackling rising risks from extreme heat, air pollution and infectious disease.

Deadly heat worldwide prompts $300 million for climate health research at COP30

After a weather delay dashed its first launch attempt over the weekend, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches landmark Mars mission in New Glenn rocket’s first big test

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -The Blue Origin space venture of billionaire Jeff Bezos launched its giant New Glenn rocket from Florida on Thursday on its debut flight for paying customers, carrying two satellites on their way to Mars in the company's first NASA-scale science mission. The powerful two-stage rocket, ​standing 32 stories tall, blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, marking the first mission flown by Blue Origin since New Glenn's inaugural test launch on January

Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket on company's first NASA-scale science mission

Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket Thursday with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars.  It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’ company and NASA are counting on to get people and supplies to the moon — and it was a complete success.  The 321-foot (98-meter) New Glenn blasted into the afternoon sky from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, sending NASA’s twin Mars orbiters on a drawn-out journey to the red planet.

Blue Origin launches huge rocket carrying twin NASA spacecraft to Mars

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Dogs today come in a mind-blowing array of shapes and sizes, from the diminutive pug, Pekingese and Pomeranian to the grand Irish Wolfhound, Great Dane and Saint

Doggie diversity in size and shape began at least 11,000 years ago

"I don't know what's happened," the president said this week. "She's got some kind of an act going."

All the ways Marjorie Taylor Greene has shifted her approach lately — and why Trump is 'surprised at her'

The back-and-forth legal battle over the nation's largest food assistance program has come to an end now that the shutdown has finished.

Full SNAP benefits must be paid ‘promptly,’ USDA tells states as government reopens

Ever since Democrats swept the Nov. 4 elections, the president has been trying to regain his footing on cost-of-living issues.

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$2,000 tariff rebate checks? 50-year mortgages? Making sense of Trump's new 'affordability' proposals.

$2,000 tariff rebate checks? 50-year mortgages? Making sense of Trump's new 'affordability' proposals.