Month: October 2020

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Monday began its largest military exercise in more than a decade, deploying over 36,000 troops from more than 30 countries to the central Mediterranean in a massive show of force that analysts say revives Cold War posturing towards Russia. According to NATO, the “Trident Juncture” war games willRead moreRead more

The U.S. Department of Education on Monday made what the ACLU described as a “landmark ruling” by ordering a public school in suburban Chicago to stop discriminating against a transgender student and warning the district it will lose federal funding if it does not allow the student access to the women’s restrooms and locker roomRead moreRead more

The Pentagon announced on Monday that the U.S. has approved a $1.29 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, despite mounting evidence of the country’s mass atrocities and possible war crimes in neighboring Yemen. The U.S. State Department on Friday approved the sale of over 10,000 bombs, munitions, and weapons parts produced by Boeing and Raytheon.Read moreRead more

Vice President Pence is heading to Montana on Friday for several events, including campaign work for the GOP candidate in the state’s closely watched special election. Pence will travel to Billings, Mont., to tour a coal company and participate in a listening session with business leaders and Crow Nation tribal leaders along with Interior Secretary RyanRead moreRead more

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would win the 2016 U.S. presidential election against all top Republican candidates, with scores that make him more electable in the general than even former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, his main rival for the Democratic nomination, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Click Here: geelong cats guernseyRead moreRead more

The 2015 report card compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and released Tuesday comes to a disturbing conclusion: record highs in air temperatures, and lows in peak ice, reveal that—for the marine ecosystem—climate change is already “profound.” “Changes in sea ice alone are having profound effects on the marine ecosystem (fishes, walruses,Read moreRead more

The gas leak in Porter Ranch, California that has been pumping tens of thousands of kilograms of methane into the air every hour since October 23 may take months to close up, according to state officials. Thousands of residents in the San Fernando Valley community, roughly 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles, have been forcedRead moreRead more

The World Health Organization (WHO) over the weekend warned that skyrocketing air pollution levels are killing millions of people in thousands of cities and are poised to take an “enormous” toll on public health services worldwide. “We have a public health emergency in many countries from pollution. It’s dramatic, one of the biggest problems weRead moreRead more

British Columbia on Monday will announce “one of the most visionary forest conservation plans on Earth” to protect a massive chunk of coastal rainforest—a deal that has the approval of First Nations groups, environmentalists, and loggers alike and is more than a decade in the making. The agreement will protect 85 percent of the region’sRead moreRead more

Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanBush, Romney won’t support Trump reelection: NYT Twitter joins Democrats to boost mail-in voting — here’s why Lobbying world MORE (R-Wis.) will announce Wednesday that his political operation sent more than $2 million to the House GOP’s campaign arm in May, bringing his total transfers in 2017 to more than $22Read moreRead more