China isn’t the only nation at risk of losing its biodiversity. An explosive United Nations report released this past May found that up to a million species are at risk of extinction because of human activities. About 66% of the global marine environment has been significantly altered by humans, and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened, the report said. MORE
The day after the missile strikes, President Donald Trump said that no American or Iraqi lives were lost because of precautions that had been taken, the dispersal of forces “and an early warning system that MORE
Trump’s legal team will include former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, the former independent counsel who led the Whitewater investigation into President Bill Clinton, according to a person familiar with the MORE
“Trump’s NAFTA 2.0 is a climate failure any way you slice it,” the Sierra Club’s Ben Beachy told me. Beyond continuing to allow companies to seek lax climate and environmental rules outside the United States, MORE
The critique of corporate capitalism is clear to see, and this first act, strange and abstracted though it is, is not without precedent. Fans of weird literature are sure to find echoes of Gene Wolfe’s The MORE
Remember when a handful of tokens of African-Americans claimed that black people were leaving the Democratic Party because of freedom or some other non-existent reason and they really, really, deep down inside support Trump ? MORE
Word of the Day: Wollemi—an Australian aboriginal word meaning “watch out, look around you”. Why Wollemi, you may ask? Because by some miracle, the Wollemi Pines, the oldest tree species (it’s been around 65 million years) was MORE
Federal prosecutors in Washington are investigating a years-old leak of classified information about a Russian intelligence document, and they appear to be focusing on whether the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey illegally provided details MORE
It was a lifesaving mission as dramatic as any in the months-long battle against the wildfires that have torn through the Australian bush. But instead of a race to save humans or animals, a specialized MORE
A follow-up to a current News Views article: “I don’t think Trump is like organized crime, I think he’s like a cult leader. There are a lot of Republicans that would go against him. … MORE
Virginia Capital on Edge as F.B.I. Arrests Suspected Neo-Nazis Before Gun Rally RICHMOND, Va. — Alarming calls online for a race war. The arrest of three suspected neo-Nazis. Memories of the explosive clashes in Charlottesville, MORE
Rather than answer a question about the pending impeachment trial of President Trump, Republican Sen. Martha McSally repeatedly on Thursday called a CNN reporter a “liberal hack” — an exchange that a McSally staffer taped MORE
A coalition of 14 states along with Washington, D.C., and New York City sued Thursday to block the Trump administration from cutting off food stamp benefits from nearly 700,000 unemployed people, the first of three MORE
AS THE UKRAINE PLOT THICKENS, MIKE POMPEO IS MISSING IN ACTION. When it was revealed that Donald Trump had characterized Masha (Marie) Yovanovitch as “bad news” and, in what felt like a thinly veiled threat, that the former U.S. MORE
There is no change to existing law or regulations, but the White House says it wants to empower students and teachers to exercise their rights. In other words, more pandering to his Fundie base. The MORE
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man is dead and two others were injured after a triple shooting overnight in north Charlotte. The shooting happened just after midnight on Holland Avenue, off Atando and Statesville avenues, near the MORE
The Senate Impeachment trial of Trump begins.
A statement issued Wednesday evening by the governor’s office said: “The Governor understands the importance of the Utah Department of Health conducting a campaign to educate Utahns about HIV prevention. He does not, however, approve MORE
In Monday, the New Jersey legislature gave final approval to a bill that would make it the first state in the country to guarantee severance pay in the wake of mass layoffs. The bill ensures MORE
KTLA: The Government Accountability Office says the Trump administration broke the law when it withheld US security aid to Ukraine last year that had been appropriated by Congress — an issue at the center of the impeachment MORE
Indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas was interviewed by Rachel Maddow Wednesday. During the interview, Parnas describes his relationship with Rudy Giuliani, White House officials, and other individuals tied to the Ukraine scheme. “President Trump knew MORE
Underneath a white tarpaulin roof, behind razor wire and barking police dogs, Wendy Ramírez Penosa and her two teenage sons stood before an immigration judge sitting 30 miles (48km) away from them. Through tears, they MORE
Verisk Maplecroft, a leading risk analysis and strategic forecasting company, said in a report published on Thursday that 47 countries experienced a significant rise in the number of protests over the course of the past year. Hong MORE
Posthumous inductees Whitney Houston and The Notorious B.I.G. will lead a new class into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined by Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails and T-Rex. The gospel-trained MORE
This afternoon, if all goes according to schedule, all 100 members of the United States Senate will take an oath to “do impartial justice” as jurors in the impeachment trial of President Trump. Senate Majority MORE