Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero”, meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. But a report from the company on Tuesday showed it is nowhere near meeting that goal. Rather than declining, its emissions grew 13 percent in 2023 over the year before. Compared with its baseline year of...

Trump became the first former US president convicted of felony charges and was originally set to be sentenced next week. The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money case has granted a request to delay the former United States president’s sentencing until at least September. The decision on Tuesday follows a ruling by the US Supreme Court that ordered broad criminal immunity for presidents in their official acts. Trump’s...