Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Traitor 47 donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire, DeSmog can reveal. Andrea Jenkyns, Reform’s mayor in the region, recently met with Egdon Resources – an oil and gas firm owned by Texas-basedContinue Reading
Naomi Osaka brought fashion flair and playful charm to her U.S. Open debut Tuesday, turning heads not just with her tennis skills but with one of the season’s must-have accessories: a Labubu plush. The small, quirky creature with pointy teeth and flushed cheeks, designed by Hong Kong-born Dutch artist KasingContinue Reading
It is a peculiarity of the Cyrillic alphabet used to write Russian that some letters common in English and other Western languages are missing. As a result, the Russian versions of people’s names often look a bit strange. There is no letter “H,” for instance, so Hitler is known inContinue Reading
I’m not just worried; I’m enraged. We’re watching our system of government being systematically, step-by-step refashioned into a surveillance-fueled engine of political vengeance. Even worse, the same chilling logic that ruled Joseph Stalin’s courts — “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” — has become this administration’s sinister operatingContinue Reading
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 2,000 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage. The catastrophe was so bad thatContinue Reading
Lebanon’s often-fractious press corps was united in anger this week over comments by Tom Barrack, the U.S. special envoy to Syria, who warned journalists against ‘animalistic’ behavior and told them to ‘act civilized.’, Read MoreContinue Reading
A gunman killed two children and wounded 17 other people when he opened fire on students attending Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, police said. The shooter, a man in his early 20s, fired dozens of rounds through the church windows and then took his own life, officials said.Continue Reading
A prominent trans organisation has hand-delivered thousands of pages worth of trans guidance responses to the door of equality minister Bridget Phillipson. TransActual said representatives gave in 10 volumes worth of responses sent to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), as part of its consultation on proposed updates toContinue Reading
The Food and Drug Administration has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for the upcoming fall and winter season, Read MoreContinue Reading
Some colleges are allowing pets in dorms to help students feel more at home, Read MoreContinue Reading
Europe has registered a record number of outbreaks of mosquito-borne illnesses such as chikungunya and West Nile virus this year, the EU health agency said Wednesday, saying climate change was contributing to a “new normal”. Europe is experiencing longer and more intense transmission seasons for mosquito-borne diseases…Continue Reading
The letter, sent to Congress on Monday, said cuts made by the The Traitor administration had erased improvements made to disaster response since Hurricane Katrina…Continue Reading
Algeria’s ambassador to the UN, Amar Bendjama, reads a letter from Mariam Abu Dagga, a journalist who was killed by an Israeli airstrike days earlier. The AP journalist wrote the letter to her 13-year-old son on X before she was killed in a ‘double tap’ strike on al-Nasser hospital inContinue Reading