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Things are heating up in Germany, and the G-20 gathering hasn't even started. After being attacked by projectiles, police turned water cannons and pepper spray onto the thousands of protesters taking part in the “Welcome to Hell” demonstration on the streets of Hamburg.
Just don't mention the heat to Donald Trump—that's Angela Merkel's plan, anyway. The German chancellor, who is hosting the summit, wants to unite world leaders on environmental goals, but will be careful not to mention the words “climate change” around the U.S. president.—Katie Robertson
The flashpoints for world leaders at the G-20. The summit is the most anticipated—and potentially turbulent—meeting of global leaders in years. An unpredictable U.S. president, a Russian leader subject to international sanctions, and a Chinese head of state looking to assert a greater global role are just a few of the factors that might stoke tensions.
Global warming might be speeding up. When it comes to climate change, the Earth doesn't cook evenly. But as cooler regions catch up, a new study from Harvard University says the rate at which the planet warms is likely to get faster. The bulk of planetary warming this century may actually be back-loaded onto its final decades.
There's hardly been a better time to be a U.S. recruiter. A 16-year low unemployment rate and a record-high number of job openings are turning workers across all sorts of industries into hot commodities. The need is so dire that employers are reaching out to professional recruiters more than ever.
States line up against DeVos to save Obama's college rules. A group of 19 state attorneys general, all Democrats, and two former for-profit college students are suing the U.S. Department of Education and its leader, Betsy DeVos, over a decision to shelve Obama-era regulations designed to protect people struggling to repay student loans.
Don't expect health coverage if you survive a gunshot wound. The ever-increasing ranks of American victims of firearms could face higher insurance costs and less coverage under a Republican rollback of the Affordable Care Act. And the GOP plan could shift the cost of firearms violence to taxpayers, a gun-control group warns.
Some U.S. states still haven't recovered from the recession. As the economy enters its ninth year of expansion this month, many Americans feel the recovery has been incomplete—and the numbers back them up. Growth has lagged outside of the nation's largest cities, with five states still yet to regain their prerecession levels of gross domestic product.
If you can't afford a Porsche 911, buy the Mazda MX-5 RF. The Mazda model is not a luxury car, but, as Bloomberg's resident car expert Hannah Elliott found out, that does not mean it's inferior. She writes: “It's an affordable toy with some trapping of luxury pared down to size. If you can't afford the $110,300 Porsche 911 Targa, the German brand's legendary see-through hard-top, the $31,555 Mazda MX-5 RF is a logical alternative.”
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