After Republicans won big in successive election cycles to take control of more governorships than at almost any other time in the party’s history, the GOP now finds itself defending a huge number of seats in critical swing states in 2018. That’s the reverse of the scenario in the U.S. Senate,where Democrats are playing defense….
D’Army Bailey, a civil rights activist, judge, author, and actor who founded the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, died on Sunday. He was 73. His wife, Adrienne Bailey, said her husband passed away after a long illness, surrounded by family at Methodist hospital in Memphis. “Judge Bailey’s passing is a tremendous loss to…
More than 1,000 science and technology experts on Monday published an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons—machines capable of killing without human operators—to prevent a “virtually inevitable” high-stakes global arms race. Among the signatories are physicist and professor Stephen Hawking, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, among many others….
The United Kingdom is on the brink of a fracking bonanza after reporting this weekend revealed plans to begin ‘fast tracking’ new drilling plans. According to The Sunday Times in London, the UK government is set to unveil new guidance that “will strengthen the power of ministers to step in and wrest decisions from local…
A new report urges “extreme caution” in using seismic airguns to explore for fossil fuels underwater, saying it is “indisputable” that the practice has adverse impacts on Arctic marine life, especially whales. Seismic testing involves a vessel towing an array of airguns that continuously blast loud, low frequency sound waves down through the water column…
In a unanimous ruling hailed as “a major victory for human rights and corporate accountability,” the Canadian Supreme Court declared on Friday that a group of Ecuadorian villagers can pursue a multi-billion pollution lawsuit against oil giant Chevron in the province of Ontario. “The law has finally caught up with Chevron,” the nonprofit Amazon Watch…
Texas officials on Thursday made unannounced visits to Planned Parenthood clinics throughout the state to demand “thousands of pages” of documents in what the healthcare group and its advocates called a “politically motivated” series of raids. Agents from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s investigative arm turned up at Planned Parenthood chapters in Houston,…