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Scotland's Andrew McConnell shoots and scores goal against South Africa during their men's pool A hockey match at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, July 31, 2022. A scaled-back 2026 Commonwealth Games hosted by Glasgow will not feature rugby sevens, which was conceived in Scotland in the 1880s. Other sports that have also been dropped include field hockey, triathlon, badminton, Twenty20 cricket, squash, and diving. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

No rugby, field hockey, triathlon, badminton or cricket at leaner 2026 Commonwealth Games

Associated Press

Letters and drawings left behind are gathered at the Youth Pavilion at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Last minute objections threaten historic UN climate deal

By Seth Borenstein and Samy Magdy and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

FILE - President Joe Biden participates in the U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit to commemorate 45 years of U.S.-ASEAN relations at the State Department in Washington, May 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

At global summits, Biden aims to assert America’s leadership

By Zeke Miller - Associated Press

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during the &quot;Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment&quot; event at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. After talking the climate talk at U.N. negotiations in Scotland, the Biden administration now tests whether a divided United States can push a massive investment for a new era of clean energy through the narrowest of margins in the Senate. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

U.S. climate pledge faces test in Senate with global impact

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

Indian minister for Environment and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav attends a stocktaking plenary session at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021. Going into overtime, negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Glasgow are still trying to find common ground on phasing out coal, when nations need to update their emission-cutting pledges and, especially, on money. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Climate consensus appears near; India objects to coal plans

By Seth Borenstein and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Delegates pack the hall at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Climate talks soften stance on fossil fuel phaseout

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Smoke rises from a coal-powered steel plant at Hehal village near Ranchi, in eastern state of Jharkhand, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. No country will see energy needs grow faster in coming decades than India, and even under the most optimistic projections part of that demand will have to be met with dirty coal power — a key source of heat-trapping carbon emissions. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Can world’s climate target and India’s development coexist?

By Aniruddha Ghosal - Associated Press

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi listens before speaking during an event, at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow has entered its second week as leaders from around the world, are gathering in Scotland's biggest city, to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Roads are racist, weather is misogynist

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Former U.S. President Barack Obama and John Kerry, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate applaud members of the US delegation at the US Center at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow has entered it's second week as leaders from around the world, are gathering in Scotland's biggest city, to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Barack Obama arrogant, elitist and divisive, now as then

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Countries pledge to phase out climate culprit coal

By Frank Jordans and Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

More than 100 countries vow to end deforestation at climate talks

By Frank Jordans and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

A driver polishes a window of a car in the motorcade of U.S. President Joe Biden as he waits outside the Chigi Palace in Rome, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. A Group of 20 summit scheduled for this weekend in Rome is the first in-person gathering of leaders of the world's biggest economies since the COVID-19 pandemic started. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Climate hypocrisy? Biden takes heat for carbon footprint at U.N. summit

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden attends the opening session of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

‘Sleepy Joe’: Trump mocks Biden dozing at climate summit ‘for all the world to see’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden speak with Sarb Edmund, 89th Airlift Wing Senior/Training Protocol Specialist, and Col. William "Chris" McDonald, the Vice Commander of the 89th Airlift Wing, as they walk to board Air Force One for a trip to Rome to attend the G-20 meeting, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. . (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Biden heads off to U.N. summit with climate agenda hanging in balance

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Tugboats get into position on the Russian pipe-laying vessel &quot;Fortuna&quot; in the port of Wismar, Germany, Thursday, Jan 14, 2021. The special vessel is being used for construction work on the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. (Jens Buettner/dpa via AP) ** FILE **

Xi, Putin snub high-stakes U.N. climate summit, momentum lags among world’s major polluters

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on European energy and winter by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Death awaits in Europe this winter

By Michael McKenna

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020 file photo, Douglas Stuart speaks at The 2020 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony, at the Roundhouse in London. Fittingly in this year of work-from-home and lockdowns, Douglas Stuart’s life-changing moment came to him on his sofa. The Scottish writer was at home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side when he was announced as the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize last week. (David Parry/PA via AP, File)

Douglas Stuart hopes Booker win helps working-class writers

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, April 29, 2007 file photo, Arsenal Ladies celebrate with the trophy after beating Umea IK 1-0 on aggregate during their Women's Cup final second leg soccer match at the Meadow Park stadium, London. For Arsenal, this year’s Women’s Champions League win-or-go-home tournament is more like win or stay home because the truncated English season has left the team out next season’s competition. The seven other teams in the knockout tournament scheduled to begin Friday, Aug. 21, 2020 in Spain’s northern Basque Country have already qualified for next season's Champions League. Arsenal needs to win it to get back into it. (AP Photo/Tom Hevezi, File)

Arsenal under pressure in Women’s Champions League

By KEN MAGUIRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, May 18, 2019 file photo, Olympique Lyon players celebrate with the trophy after they defeated FC Barcelona 4-1 in the women's soccer Champions League final match at the Groupama Arena in Budapest, Hungary. Europe’s top teams are preparing for the resumption of the Women’s Champions League at a knockout tournament in Spain. Defending champion Lyon is seeking its fifth straight title and is the side to beat. The tournament is scheduled to begin Aug. 21, 2020. (Tibor Illyes/MTI via AP, File)

Lyon the team to beat at Women’s Champions League finals

By KEN MAGUIRE - Associated Press

Air Force disputes Alaska crew favored Trump Scottish hotel

By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press