As the Saudi Arabia-led military assault on Yemen continues into its fifth week with no sign of letting up, UNICEF reports that hundreds of children have been left maimed and killed by the violence. Despite Saudi Arabia’s dubious claim on Tuesday that “Operation Decisive Storm” is over, the bombings have resumed in full force, with…
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plans to finance a massive, ten-story “Mother Canada” statue on the grounds of a national park in Nova Scotia have prompted outrage from national media outlets and environmental advocates alike. The statue, a cloaked woman holding her arms out toward the Atlantic Ocean from a section of a coastline known…
Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas trust their Mercedes team will not be impacted this weekend by the positive COVID-19 case identified among its crews. Mercedes announced on Thursday that one of its team members had tested positive for the coronavirus ahead of this weekend’s Eifel Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. The individual – who was…
Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE, still sorting through the wreckage of her 2016 presidential campaign, recently had former aides on her…
Move over dirty fossil fuels, the solar revolution is coming. That, at least, is the buried headline contained in new reporting from Reuters on Sunday which looks at the ability of the solar industry to upend the world’s energy system in ways similar to recent innovations which allowed oil and gas companies to squeeze previously…
Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz on Tuesday walked across the stage and accepted her graduation diploma with a mattress in tow. Since the beginning of the school year, Sulkowicz has lugged her dorm mattress all over the Manhattan campus to protest Columbia’s alleged dismissal of her rape charges. According to Sulkowicz, during her sophomore year…
Click:block production machine Continued warming of the world’s oceans may trigger disruptions to marine life not seen in 3 million years, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study, put forth by scientists from the University of Science and Technology in Lille, France, and other institutions, aims to…
A U.S. government review board said Friday that Abdul Rahman Shalabi, a prisoner who has been on a nine-year hunger strike at the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been cleared to return to his native Saudi Arabia. Shalabi, one of the first prisoners brought to Guantánamo in January 2002, was never charged with…
Israel on Monday provoked the outrage of journalists and human rights campaigners alike when its foreign ministry released a short, animated video mocking foreign correspondents reporting from Gaza. Critics say the video is especially offensive given Israel’s history of repressing, harassing, and killing journalists, particularly in last summer’s 50-day military assault on Gaza. In a…
In a ruling that rests on what one rights group described as “a warped interpretation of the First Amendment,” a three-judge panel has said that corporations have a constitutional right to conceal information about whether minerals in their supply chains may have funded conflict. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday…