The decision could go into effect one day after the 2020 election.
| | | | | | | The Trump administration on Monday began the formal process of withdrawing the United States from the Paris agreement, the historic global deal to cut climate-changing emissions.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the move in a post to Twitter, saying “the U.S. is proud of our record as a world leader in reducing all emissions, fostering resilience, growing our economy, and ensuring energy for our citizens.”
Nov. 4 ― exactly three years since the agreement took effect ― marked the first day any country became eligible to start the paperwork needed to pull out of the pact. That includes the United States. With its letter to the United Nations on Monday, the United States kicked off a the yearlong process of formally exiting the pact. The withdrawal would officially go into effect on Nov. 4, 2020, the day after the presidential election. |
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| | | | | | | | | | After revealing earlier this year that President Donald Trump allegedly raped her in a department store in the 1990s, author and longtime Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll sued him for defamation Monday, saying his attempts to denigrate her — including lying — have caused emotional stress and career consequences. |
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| | A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s accounting firm must turn over his tax returns to New York prosecutors. Trump’s lawyers had argued that, as president, he was immune from criminal investigation ― a claim the three-judge appeals panel rejected. |
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| | House investigators on Monday released transcripts from the closed-door interviews with two former State Department officials as part of their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. |
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