Month: October 2020

Spurred by this weekend’s migrant tragedy, in which as many as 900 refugees may have died off the Libyan coast, European leaders agreed Monday not only to expand maritime patrols and search-and-rescue operations in the region—as humanitarian organizations have called for—but also to launch dubious military operations against the networks of smugglers in Libya who…

In the predawn hours of January 24, 2013, a police officer in Fayetteville, North Carolina, shot and killed a 22-year-old resident named Nijza Lamar Hagans, who had been pulled over for running a red light and making “several furtive driving maneuvers such as darting onto a neighborhood street and into a driveway,” according to a memo…

In the state-by-state war on reproductive rights, one of the biggest battlegrounds—Texas—was hit with a crushing court ruling on Tuesday that upholds the harshest measures of a 2013 anti-choice law that, if fully implemented, could shutter almost all abortion facilities in the state. The decision by a three-judge panel of the notoriously conservative U.S. 5th…

The newly elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee says the DNC needs to redefine its role to reverse 2016 GOP victories.  “We begin by building strong parties in the 50 states and the territories,” Tom Perez told ABC’s “This Week.” Click Here: New Zealand rugby store “We didn’t invest enough in our state party…

Prep wrestling coaches throughout the area were stunned by the death of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa head coach Rich Vos on Tuesday. Two long-time area coaches, New London-Spicer’s Jair Toedter and KMS’s Wes Haglund, said they were saddened by the loss of a coach, husband and father who worked hard in the school and in the community. Continue…

UNITED NATIONS – The untapped riches in the world’s oceans are estimated at nearly 24 trillion dollars – the size of the world’s leading economies, according to a new report released Thursday by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Describing the oceans as economic powerhouses, the study warns that the resources in the high seas are…

Prominent advocacy organizations charged on Tuesday that the YouTube Kids app, marketed by Google as a family-friendly and child-appropriate platform, is in fact neither, featuring “disturbing” and “potentially harmful” content. The latest accusations were issued by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Center for Digital Democracy as an update to an earlier complaint against…

New HIV infections are not declining quickly enough, and the epidemic could dramatically worsen within the next five years if the world doesn’t pick up the pace on prevention and treatment efforts, researchers with the UNAIDS-Lancet Commission warned in a report released Thursday. “We must face hard truths—if the current rate of new HIV infections…

In what is being called the most definitive assessment yet of national emissions pledges aimed at meeting global climate goals, the International Energy Agency on Monday released a major report showing that without “learning to live within its means,” the world is set to miss a critical target. In its (pdf), the Paris-based agency states…

In a move supporters are cheering as a victory for workers—and filing under the “better late than never” category on the part of the government—the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday voted to adopt new rules requiring a public company to disclose the pay ratio between its CEO and employees. Advocates say the disclosure rule,…