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Climate Threats Could Mean Big Jumps in Insurance Costs This Year
The federal government is revising rates for flood coverage on April 1. New data suggests premiums need to increase sharply for some homes.
Creole, La., a day after Hurricane Delta hit the area in October.Credit.Emily Kask for The New York Times
Published Feb. 22, 2021Updated March 18, 2021
WASHINGTON The cost of federal flood insurance will need to increase significantly in much of the country to meet the growing risks of climate change, new data suggests, creating a political headache for the Biden administration.
The National Flood Insurance Program, which provides the vast majority of United States flood insurance policies, would have to quadruple premiums on high-risk homes inside floodplains to reflect the risks they already face, according to data issued on Monday by the First Street Foundation, a group of academics and experts that models flood risks.
She Escaped Pakistan. Now Her Father Has Been Thrown Into Jail.
Mohammed Ismail, father of the women’s rights activist Gulalai Ismail, now faces harsh terrorism charges that critics say are about revenge, not justice.
Mohammed Ismail, above in 2019, faces charges of sedition and terrorism financing, which human rights defenders say are bogus and thinly veiled revenge against the family for embarrassing the state security services.Credit.Saiyna Bashir for The New York Times
Feb. 3, 2021
NEW DELHI Gulalai Ismail, one of Pakistan’s boldest human rights defenders and a stalwart critic of Pakistan’s security services, succeeded in escaping an enormous dragnet and making it to the United States in 2019, deeply humiliating the authorities who had been persecuting her.
Senate Leaders Strike Deal to Delay Trumpâs Impeachment Trial
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The former presidentâs trial will begin the week of Feb. 8. President Biden issued orders to address the pandemicâs fallout, and his Education Department moved to cut ties with an accrediting body linked to a fraud scandal.
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David Legates, a climate denialist who joined the Trump administration last year as head of the United States Global Change Research Program, at a Senate hearing in 2014.Credit.C-SPAN.org
The Commerce Departmentâs Office of Inspector General said it will investigate an incident earlier this month in which two former Trump appointees posted debunked scientific reports denying the existence and significance of man-made climate change, purportedly on behalf of the United States government.
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