Orlando Sentinel during a September 2019 interview at his office in Lake Mary, Fla. Joe Burbank/TNS/ABACA via Reuters Connect
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Joel Greenberg, then a Seminole County, Fla., tax collector talks to the
Orlando Sentinel during a September 2019 interview at his office in Lake Mary, Fla. Joe Burbank/TNS/ABACA via Reuters Connect
A former Florida politician who is a key figure in the investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz will plead guilty to sex trafficking of a minor and other offenses and has agreed to cooperate with federal investigators.
According to a copy of a plea agreement filed in federal court Friday, Joel Greenberg will plead guilty to six charges: producing a false identification document, identity theft, wire fraud, stalking, conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor.
Democracies have struggled and autocracies have grown in strength in the past decade and a half. During this period, dictatorships have intensified and modernized their systems of repression. Governments in virtually every region, many ostensible democracies among them, have become more illiberal or authoritarian. Two major powers in particular, China and Russia, have led the way in tightening control domestically, adapting their techniques for the digital era, and exerting greater influence abroad with the aim of making the world safer for autocracy.
Democratic countries are now more vulnerable to authoritarian governments and ideas than at any other point in the post–Cold War era. Thanks to globalization, autocracies and democracies have become tethered to each other in complicated ways that, more often than not, have harmful effects on the democracies. For example, media- and technology-related partnerships have proliferated between democracies and autocracies, often skewing th
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Forty Second Street stands mostly empty as as much of the city is void of cars and pedestrians over fears of spreading the coronavirus on March 22, 2020 in New York City. Across the country schools, businesses and places of work have either been shut down or are restricting hours of operation as health officials try to slow the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Despite the sudden and substantial shifts in consumption habits seen during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese households continued to emit the same amount of greenhouse gases as before. Last summer, the term anthropause was coined to describe the decline of human activity caused by the pandemic. Still, plant closures and disrupted global supply chains did not translate into the embrace of eco-friendly lifestyles by the typical household.
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Between 1998 and 2018, the global trading network was more extensive among pairs of countries with greater wealth disparities, according to a report published in Science Advances.
Indonesia, Jamaica, and Honduras were the top exporters of wildlife goods, while the United States was the top importer, followed by France and Italy.
Reducing Demands for Vulnerable Species
Cites (The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) regulates cross-border trade in wild plants and animals, with the aim of reducing demand for vulnerable biodiversity and encouraging populations to recover.
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Washington denies Iran state media report saying prisoner swap agreed
DUBAI - The United States on Sunday denied a report by Iran s state television that the arch-foes had reached a prisoner swap deal in exchange for the release of $7 billion frozen Iranian oil funds under U.S. sanctions in other countries.