January 2025 – Page 2

Carney proposes alternative to ‘divisive’ carbon price. How would it work? – National

January 31, 2025 by ZeroToHero

Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney is backing away from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s consumer carbon pricing regime but will keep industrial pricing in place. Carney said the country has become divided over the policy because Canadians have been fed “misinformation” by Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. “Since Canada’s current climate policy has become too divisive, … Read more

Starmer warned against approving oilfield after Labour unease over Heathrow | Oil

January 31, 2025 by ZeroToHero

Senior Labour figures are warning of a serious fight if Keir Starmer tries to give the go-ahead to a giant new oilfield off Shetland later this year. MPs and ministers have told the Guardian they are prepared to oppose the UK prime minister should he try and give final consent to the Rosebank development, which … Read more

Here Are the Best Moments from FireAid Concert to Help Los Angeles Fire Victims

January 31, 2025 by ZeroToHero

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The FireAid benefit was fueled by some of music’s best performers to raise money for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief efforts. The event at the Kia Forum and the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, on Thursday night featured a long list of stars including Billie Eilish, Rod Stewart, Dr. Dre and Joni Mitchell during … Read more

‘Completely Unhinged’: Victor Davis Hanson Says Dems’ Fury Against Trump Nominees During Hearings Is Political Misstep

January 31, 2025 by ZeroToHero

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson explained on Friday how Democratic senators’ attacks on President Donald Trump’s nominees during confirmation hearings are backfiring politically because of conservatives’ current ability to push their messages more effectively online. Many Democratic senators have taken adversarial approaches to Trump’s cabinet nominees, including screaming at them, interrupting them and hurling … Read more

Judicial review must be heard on how UK can sell F-35 parts to Israel, judge rules | Defence policy

January 31, 2025 by ZeroToHero

A high court judge has ruled a judicial review must be quickly heard on government claims that national security entitles ministers to sell parts for F-35 jets to Israel even though Britain accepts that there is a risk they will be used in breach of international humanitarian law. The hearing will most likely take place … Read more

Give Rachel Reeves’s plan for UK growth a chance | Mohamed El-Erian

January 31, 2025 by ZeroToHero

Pity Rachel Reeves, the chancellor of the exchequer. Before she had even got through her highly anticipated “growth speech” on 29 January, criticism flooded social media and the airwaves. Her approach is too scattered, some said, and too reliant on measures whose impact will be felt only over the long term. Some programmes run counter … Read more

‘Foreign Power’ Could be Behind Qur’an Burner Killing Says Sweden PM

January 31, 2025 by ZeroToHero

The Swedish Prime Minister says the national security services are investigating whether a “foreign power” may be behind the execution of an Iraqi critic of Islam in his country during a press conference where the leader admitted the government has lost control of a wave of shootings and bombings. Moderate Party leader and Swedish Prime … Read more

Lithuanian Prez Backs Trump’s NATO Spending Boost Demands

January 31, 2025 by ZeroToHero

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) – Securing an end to the fighting in Ukraine must take place with Kyiv’s full involvement and come with more defense spending by regional countries to avoid any future Russian aggression, according to Lithuania’s president. Gitanas Nauseda, the president of the Baltic coastal nation, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday … Read more

Charity vs. ‘Social Justice’ in the Wake of the Fire

January 31, 2025 by ZeroToHero

LOS ANGELES, California — I’m writing this from the Fire Aid concert in Los Angeles. A friend from Live Nation gave tickets to musically-inclined kids from the Pacific Palisades who lost homes or were otherwise affected by the fires. (Our house is still standing, but we can’t go home. Not yet. Perhaps not for years.) … Read more

‘We’ve got rats as big as your feet’: Birmingham residents despair as rubbish piles up | Birmingham

January 31, 2025 by ZeroToHero

As he walks through the streets of Small Heath in east Birmingham, Gerry Moynihan threads as if he is tackling an obstacle course, avoiding piled-up bin bags, dumped cars and fridges, fly-tipped furniture and discarded nitrous oxide canisters that clutter the pavements. Residents across the city have raised alarm at the growing level of litter … Read more