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Ken Peplowski, the American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist whose warm swing and effortless phrasing made him a pillar of acoustic jazz, died on February 1, 2026. He was 66. Peplowski passed away aboard the Celebrity Summit while participating in The Jazz Cruise, where he was scheduled to perform and instead left the music world […]

Blake Muir and niece Jennifer Sullivan look over a tank battery an Inside Climate News analysis found would be inundated in a Guadalupe River flood climatologists say is almost certain. Memories of a devastating 1998 flood — before the region was dotted with wells and tanks — has neighbors worrying about environmental disaster. Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News GONZALES — More than 500 enormous oil tanks dot the floodplains of the Guadalupe River and its tributaries across one of Texas’ leading oil fields, posing risk of environmental disaster in a flood climatologists say is almost certain to come. Longtime residents of this area’s historic ranchlands vividly remember the last time these plains filled with water, in a biblical inundation in 1998. But that was before the fracking boom that hit the region because of the oil-rich geological formation that lies beneath it, known as the Eagle Ford Shale. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Blake Muir, left, lived through a flood that inundated floodplains seen behind him in 1998. Then, the tank batteries and well pads that now dot the Eagle Ford Shale weren’t in place. He and his neighbors fear another flood will create ecological devastation. At right is Muir’s...

A look at the key people advising, influencing and masterminding the Labour leader’s bid to become PM