Critics of fracking in the United Kingdom assailed the British government on Monday for their heavy-handed censorship of an internal government report on the impacts of the shale oil and gas drilling technique. The draft government report, titled Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts, published by the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (or Defra),…
The U.S. military is taking the global arms race to new speeds, with the second test launching of an Advanced Hypersonic Weapon that has the ultimate aim of hitting targets anywhere on earth within an hour by traveling up to five times the speed of sound. But the test, which took place Monday at the…
Accepting Colby College’s Elijah Parish Lovejoy award for courageous journalism on Sunday, New York Times investigative reporter James Risen had a message for other writers: “Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don’t, they will become irrelevant.” This statement comes from a journalist who has faced his share of fights. Click…
Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) expects to challenge Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote The Hill’s Morning Report – Trump’s public standing sags after Floyd protests GOP senators introduce resolution opposing calls to defund the police MORE (R-Texas) for his Senate seat in 2018, the Texas Tribune reported. “It’s…
Hundreds of North American bird species are at serious risk from global warming, according to a first-of-its-kind study by the National Audubon Society released Monday. Click Here: Rugby league Jerseys “It’s a punch in the gut. The greatest threat our birds face today is global warming.”—Gary Langham, National Audubon Society Audubon scientists used three decades of…
Hundreds of students from high schools across Colorado’s Jefferson County school district walked out of classes on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week, protesting attempts by rightwing members of the school board to amp up what they consider the “positive aspects of the United States and its heritage” within the district’s history curriculum while minimizing…
A federal judge ruled on Monday that the police in Ferguson, Missouri violated protesters’ constitutional rights by forcing them to keep moving or risk arrest. U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry issued a preliminary injunction (pdf) against officers to prevent them from enforcing the tactic dubbed by the ACLU of Missouri as the “five-second rule,” which…
In the wake of last week’s attacks that killed two soldiers in Ottawa and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, privacy watchdogs fear that expanding the powers of Canadian police and intelligence agencies in the name of national security will curb personal freedoms. The Conservative government on Monday unveiled a new bill—Bill C-44, or the ‘Protection of Canada from…
A senior official at the U.S. National Security Agency has been cleared to work part-time for a private firm started by former NSA director Keith Alexander, according to exclusive Reuters reporting, raising questions about the blurring of lines between government and business. The news agency reports that “[u]nder the arrangement, which was confirmed by Alexander and…
It’s official. New York state will ban fracking. After years of lobbying and aggressive public protest by state residents to make permanent a short-term moratorium on the controversial oil and gas drilling practice, Gov. Andrew Cuomo cited harm to public health as the key reason for the decision to announce an all-out ban. “The potential…