Pope Francis shamed and challenged world leaders on Wednesday to commit to binding targets to slow climate change before it’s too late. Warning that God’s increasingly warming creation is fast reaching a “Point Of No Return”.

In an unusually bleak update to his landmark 2015 encyclical on the environment, Francis heightened the alarm about the “irreversible” harm to people and planet already under way and lamented that once again, the world’s poor and most vulnerable are paying the highest price.

Baltimore police say multiple people have been shot on campus of Morgan State University.

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexi Ekimov for work on tiny quantum dots.

Kevin McCarthy ousted as Speaker of the House in a dramatic vote as Democrats joined with GOP critics to topple him. 

Sydney Dorsey can be reached at dors3655@stthomas.edu.