A very bad year for press freedom (www.vox.com)
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“I refer to this one as ‘the big one,’” said the official, Matt Combes, an ecological health unit science supervisor for the Missouri Department of Conservation. He added: “Calling something a near-total fish kill for 60 miles of a river is astounding and disheartening.”
The town of Newbern saw white officials deny its first Black mayor, Patrick Braxton, from exercising his duties for three years...
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Concerning primarily because H5N1 appears to be moving from cow to cow. It could only be a matter of time before it gets a foothold in humans.
Democratic state lawmakers are introducing legislation to counter the rise in book bans around the country....
Open flames shot upward from four smokestacks at the Chevron refinery on the western edge of Richmond, Calif. Soon, black smoke blanketed the sky....
A federal judge has ruled that a southern Oregon city can’t limit a local church’s homeless meal services....
Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world....
A federal government plan for hunters to kill thousands of invasive owls to protect the rapidly declining northern spotted owl has ruffled the feathers of dozens of animal advocacy groups....
I may have to try to find a copy of Enemy Mine to watch in remembrance.
A former executive at Yoozoo Games was sentenced to death on Friday in the 2020 poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company, which has links to Game of Thrones and the new Netflix series, “The Three-Body Problem.”...
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In November of 2023, Paul Penzone announced that he was stepping down as Maricopa County sheriff, which became effective in January of this year. (He took a job at Blue Cross Blue Shield.)...