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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is doubling down on her commitment to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), saying his days in the leadership position are “numbered” as House members await a potential privileged vote on a motion to vacate. Greene last month filed a motion to remove Johnson, saying he crossed a line by holding a vote for additional Ukraine aid. Two other GOP lawmakers have already backed it — enough votes to remove the Speaker if all Democrats vote with her — though Democrats have generally opposed her effort. “Permanent funding for Ukraine is exactly what they want and...

Our Nation’s history is defined by discovery, ingenuity, and innovation. Americans are known for their resourcefulness and ability to find solutions to a wide range of challenges, including the development of technologies that advance our security, health, and prosperity. This resourcefulness has been a driving force of economic growth and human development since the founding of our Nation, and our future depends on the continued protection of our intellectual property. On World Intellectual Property Day, we renew our resolve to protect and secure the works and innovations of American artists, inventors, and other creators who continually push the boundaries of...

Earth will be able to host life for just another 1.75 billion years or so, according to a study published on 18 September in Astrobiology1. The method used to make the calculation can also identify planets outside the Solar System with long ‘habitable periods’, which might be the best places to look for life. The habitable zone around a star is the area in which an orbiting planet can support liquid water, the perfect solvent for the chemical reactions at the heart of life. Too far from a star and a planet’s water turns to permanent ice and its carbon...

It may well take 20 years. But al-Qaeda's days are numbered Five years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden waits in vain for a Muslim 'awakening'. The lure of the West is just too powerful a force Jason Burke Sunday September 10, 2006 The Observer (UK) Tomorrow will mark five years since the attacks of 11 September 2001. If one generation knew where they were when mankind first walked on the moon, another knows where they were when the Twin Towers crumbled. And they know where they were when coalition troops first entered Iraq. And when the bombs exploded in London...

CO2 credit trading coming to a forest near you Kazuma Ono Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer The days in which the air we breathe is free look to be numbered. With the Kyoto Protocol likely to take effect with the Russian government's decision Thursday to submit a bill for ratification of the Kyoto treaty, the creation of a market in which greenhouse gas emission credits are traded has become a real possibility. Should the 1997 climate pact take effect, Japan will have to slash its emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)--the main cause of global warming--to the levels specified under the protocol....

Last year, when I was writing about the pot coming to the boil in Iran, I was one among a number of Western commentators I could count on one hand. This year, praise the Lord, I am no longer a bearer of incredible tidings. The rest of the media are catching on, and the story is even making front pages. The phrase "second Iranian revolution" is in the airwaves. Last summer, the mullahs came perilously close to losing their turbans, and were reduced to importing Palestinian and Afghan thugs to beat up the student demonstrators, for fear the Persian thugs...