Month: October 2020

Four Freedom Industries owners and managers have been charged with federal violations for their part in the January chemical spill in West Virginia, which saw a large portion of the Elk River contaminated with more than 7,000 gallons of hazardous waste, contaminated the drinking water of 300,000 people. Dennis Farrell, William Tis, Charles Herzing, and…

After months of secret negotiations, a surprise joint announcement by U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jingping revealed the world’s two largest contributors to global warming have made a non-binding agreement to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions over the next fifteen years and stated their hope that such pledges will spur other nations…

“Even very ambitious mitigation” can’t change the fact that the world has already “locked in” mid-century warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial times, a new report from the World Bank Group finds. This warming brings increased threats to food and water security and jeopardizes poverty-reduction efforts, the study states. It “confirms what scientists have been saying—past…

Charging that the world has largely looked the other way, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday released a new report which concludes 2014 was one of the worst years on record for the overall welfare of children, with over 15 million young people directly harmed by the world’s worst conflicts and hundreds of…

On one of the busiest commercial days of the year, in one of the largest malls in the world, protesters interrupted business as usual to send a message: “While you’re on your shopping spree, black people cannot breathe.” An estimated 3,000 people on Saturday flooded the rotunda and partially shut down the Mall of America,…

A homemade bomb detonated on Tuesday at the NAACP chapter offices in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the FBI said. No deaths or injuries were reported. The explosion may have been intended to be bigger than it was. A gas can next to the bomb, which was set next to an exterior wall outside the NAACP headquarters,…

Former CIA director David Petraeus will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information, allowing him to skip a public trial over allegations that he gave classified documents to his mistress while serving as head of the intelligence agency. Petraeus reached the plea deal with the Justice Department on Tuesday. The Justice Department…

A major Democratic outside group is launching an effort to protect voting rights as President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE calls for an investigation…

Canada’s federal government is reportedly capitalizing on recent terror attacks with proposed counter-terrorism legislation that could threaten privacy rights. According to reporting by the Globe and Mail and CBC News, the legislation will be introduced when Parliament resumes at the end of the month, and is ostensibly to thwart attacks like those that occurred in…

As expected, a South Carolina judge has thrown out the convictions of the Friendship Nine, civil rights activists who were jailed in 1961 after a sit-in protest at an all-white lunch counter in the town of Rock Hill. It took almost five and a half years for the nine African-American men, whose ‘jail, no bail’…