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For reasons that remain unclear, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been in possession of the controversial cell phone spying devices known as Stingrays, the Guardian exclusively reported on Monday. Invoices obtained following a request under the Freedom of Information Act show purchases made in 2009 and 2012 by the federal tax agency with Harris…

African civil society organizations championing for climate justice have criticized the Intended Nationally Determined Commitments (INDC’s) presented to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, calling them “weak, inadequate and not ambitious enough.”Click Here: Putters “If you study carefully what has been submitted by the developed countries like, Russia, USA and EU compared to…

While they praised the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for formalizing a policy that loosens the longstanding ban on blood donation by gay and bisexual men, LGBTQ and public health advocates on Monday said the “discriminatory” plan still leaves much to be desired. “Blood donation policies should be based on science, not stigma.”—Kelsey Louie,…

A new Senior-level competition will be hosted in the United States this winter, providing another opportunity for our top stars in the Olympic styles to test themselves and improve their skills. One of the nation’s most successful wrestling clubs, the Minnesota Storm, has organized this new event, which will offer Senior-level competition in all three…

Just days after French President François Hollande vowed a “merciless” response to the Paris attacks, his government on Thursday submitted a resolution for the United Nations Security Council to “take all necessary measures” against ISIS. The French proposal, which could face a vote as early as Friday, competes with a separate one re-submitted by Russia…

A climate change denial event in Paris, organized jointly by two US groups, the coal-funded Heartland Institute and The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), held to coincide with the UN climate COP21 talks, quietly flopped Monday when hardly anyone turned up to listen to what actual experts consider to be Heartland’s counter-factual nonsense. Billed…

The 2016 spending bill approved last week by U.S. Congress and signed late Friday by President Barack Obama included a measure that effectively ended the federal ban on medical marijuana and paves the way for significant reforms of the war on drugs. “For decades Congress has been responsible for passing disastrous drug laws,” said Michael…

The Obama administration on Thursday released new dietary guidelines, and critics say there’s a winner but it’s not public health or food security. Marion Nestle, nutrition professor at New York University, writes that we can “count the 2015 Guidelines as a win for the meat, sugary drink, processed, and junk food industries.” The takeaway from…

The U.S. Department of Education announced this week that it would create a searchable database of every college or university that claims religious exemption from Title IX federal civil rights protections. In 2015, 43 higher education institutions applied for a record number of waivers exempting them from policies meant to safeguard against sex and gender…

More than half a million people could die in the next few decades as a result of climate change, according to new research published Wednesday in The Lancet. The study from the UK-based Oxford Martin Future of Food Programme is the first of its kind to assess the impact of climate change on diet composition…