headlines-for-august-27,-2026

Over 350 Die and Hundreds Are Missing as Glacier’s Collapse Triggers Floods in Nepal and Tibet, Pentagon Says It Killed 4 People in Latest Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats, Iran Blocks IAEA Inspectors from Visiting Nuclear Sites Bombed by U.S. and Israel, Ukraine and Russia Trade Attacks as Moscow WarnsContinue Reading

nepal-tibet-flash-flood-shows-the-deadly-price-of-climate-delay

A glacial collapse that resulted in a flash flood in the Nepal-Tibet border shows that climate delay is proving to be deadlier and more destructive than world leaders admit, climate groups said. Disasters like this are becoming more frequent and more deadly as the Himalayas warm and glaciers destabilize, 350.orgContinue Reading

“platform-extractivism”:-inside-venezuela’s-hidden-workforce-training-ai-algorithms-for-pennies

Julián Posada’s upcoming book, titled Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence, is based on extensive fieldwork among data workers in Venezuela. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a hyperinflation crisis, entire communities in Venezuela depended on data work, says Posada, a professor at YaleContinue Reading

voting-rights-groups-move-to-block-newly-finalized-mail-ballot-rule

Voting rights organizations today supplemented the complaint in their lawsuit challenging Traitor 47’s executive order restricting mail voting to add claims against the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) newly-finalized mail ballot rule. The groups simultaneously asked a federal court to immediately block USPS from implementing that rule for the November midtermContinue Reading