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Wall Street Journal (July 23)

2022/ 07/ 25 by jd in Global News

The facts being presented by the Jan. 6 special committee are “sobering,” and “the most horrifying to date” was “President Trump’s conduct as the riot raged and he sat watching TV, posting inflammatory tweets and refusing to send help…. Character is revealed in a crisis, and Mr. Pence passed his Jan. 6 trial. Mr. Trump utterly failed his.”

 

World Economic Forum (December 10)

2020/ 12/ 12 by jd in Global News

“Greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high last year, putting the world on track for an average temperature rise of 3 degrees Celsius.” The UNEP report is only “the latest to suggest the world is hurtling toward extreme climate change” and comes on the heels “of sobering weather extremes, including rapid ice loss in the Arctic as well as record heat waves and wildfires in Siberia and the U.S. West.”

 

Sydney Morning Herald (November 9)

2020/ 11/ 10 by jd in Global News

“The coronavirus has hit another sobering milestone: more than 50 million positive cases worldwide since the pandemic began…. The US, with around 4% of the world’s population, represents almost a fifth of all reported cases.”

 

CNN (August 20)

2018/ 08/ 22 by jd in Global News

“Someone gets shot an average of about once per hour. That was the sobering reality in Chicago this weekend, when at least 58 people were shot.” Chicago’s “latest rash of violence happened despite an additional 600 officers on the streets.”

 

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