Prosecutors began laying out their case against Trump In an opening statement, the prosecution gave a sweeping synopsis of the case against Donald Trump — a pivotal moment in the first criminal prosecution of a former American president. A Manhattan prosecutor told the 12 jurors that the case was about “a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up” of sex scandals that …

After a year of legal skirmishes and a week of jury selection, today marked the true beginning of the first prosecution of a former American president — a courtroom drama complete with lawyerly broadsides, a no-nonsense judge and 12 Manhattanites sitting in judgment. The State of New York laid out a twisty tale of hush money, illicit sexual encounters and …

Glaciers are shrinking, coral reefs are in crisis and last year was the hottest on record. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, have passed a dangerous new threshold as people continue to burn fossil fuels. Is anyplace making progress on climate change? The short answer is: It’s complicated, but yes. In South America, one country has pivoted …