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After teasing and tormenting his fellow world leaders and pledging an announcement only sometime this week, finally on Thursday - in the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by anti-environmentalists for the sort of bathetic display which has come to characterise every administrative 'success' - Donald Trump confirmed that he is pulling the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate...

On Saturday evening news broke of the death of Antonin Scalia, who had served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since his appointment by Ronald Reagan in 1986. The longest serving member of the Supreme Court at the time of his death, Scalia was 79 years old. Reports indicated that Scalia was found dead...

2 July marks one of the most pivotal days in American and world history: a day of crucial occurrences with regard to the independence of the United States, the onset of the Cold War, and the establishment of civil rights. * * * The Second Continental Congress - following on from the first, which had met between 5 September and 26 October...