
Millions are displaced each year by climate change. José Andrés, Leon Panetta and others are teaming up to try to help
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Hurricanes are ravaging the Caribbean. Flooding has left vast areas of Pakistan underwater. Drought continues to ravage Africa and parts of the Middle East. And the shifting weather patterns are driving tens of millions of people from their homes — with more than 200 million people expected to be displaced by climate-related disasters by 2050.
But a diverse group of leaders, thinkers and activists, including chef José Andrés, former cabinet secretaries Leon Panetta and Janet Napolitano and several former presidents and big-city mayors, will meet for the first time this week on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York to try to force world leaders to start thinking about how migration caused by climate change can be addressed.
The Climate Migration Council, launched by Laurene Powell Jobs and her Emerson Collective, includes Michael Chertoff and Janet Napolitano — two former homeland security secretaries who oversaw U.S. immigration policies — plus Leon Panetta, who served as CIA director and defense secretary. There's also Michael Morell, a former CIA deputy director and CBS News national security contributor; San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria; the former presidents and mayors of Costa Rica and Bogotá, Colombia; and past leaders of the Organization of American States.

Washington — The Senate this week is taking up the massive budget package containing President Trump's second-term agenda, a measure that squeaked through the House with a one-vote margin, solely with Republican votes. Its path through the Senate seems destined to be similarly narrow, with the package almost certain to be revised, since parts of it are opposed by a handful of GOP senators critical to its passage.

This year, WorldPride is coming to Washington, D.C. A series of events, organized by the nonprofit InterPride, aims to bring visibility and awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer issues to an international stage. This year's location is leaving the community conflicted about showing up to the nation's capital amid an administration that has targeted them.

A suspect is in custody after what the FBI is calling a "targeted act of violence" at Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday. We are saddened and heartbroken to learn that an incendiary device was thrown at walkers at the Run for Their Lives walk on Pearl Street as they were raising awareness for the hostages still held in Gaza. My thoughts are with those injured and impacted by today's attack against a group that meets weekly on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall to call for the release of the hostages in Gaza.