White House says it would back forensic analysis of signature on Epstein letter – live

<p>Trump officials continue to insist that suggestive note and drawing were not work of the president </p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/09/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-note">Trump calls release of suggestive note ‘a dead issue’</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>A jump in greenhouse gas <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/pollution">pollution</a> in the US helped push global <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/carbon-emissions">emissions</a> higher in the first half of this year. This could be an omen of what’s to come, with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a>’s pro-fossil fuel agenda set to significantly slow down the emissions cuts required to avoid disastrous climate impacts, a new forecast has found.</strong></p><p>The “most abrupt shift in energy and climate policy in recent memory” that has occurred since Trump re-entered the White House will have profound consequences for the global <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">climate crisis</a> by slowing the pace of US emissions cuts by as much as half the rate achieved over the past two decades, <a href="https://rhg.com/research/taking-stock-2025/">the Rhodium Group forecast states</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/10/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-tariffs-immigration-crime-us-politics-live-news-updates">Continue reading...</a>