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UK Moves To Ban New North Sea Oil & Gas Licenses Permanently Via City AM, The UK government will introduce legislation banning new North Sea oil and gas exploration licences as part of its Energy Independence Bill. Critics argue the policy will increase Britain’s reliance on imported fossil fuels while damaging Scotland’s oil and gas industry. Rising oil prices and disruptions tied to the Iran conflict have intensified political pressure on Labour to reconsider the ban. The government will make it illegal to grant new oil and gas licences in the North Sea, the King...

The Israeli military launched heavy attacks across Gaza on Sunday, killing at least six Palestinians, as it continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal. Medics told Reuters that at least four people were killed and several others were wounded by an Israeli airstrike near a hospital in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp. Israeli […]

Hawaii Has America's Highest Life Expectancy, West Virginia The Lowest Life expectancy varies widely across the U.S., with clear regional patterns emerging in the latest data. States in the Northeast and on the West Coast tend to have higher life expectancies, while many in the South and Appalachia rank lower. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, shows these differences using data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, based on 2022 life tables published in December 2025, the latest publicly available state-level figures as of March 2026. The CDC’s report uses period...