Insurance firms need more climate change information. Scientists say they can help
Floods, wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes cause billions of dollars of property damage each year. Can federal climate scientists help the insurance industry keep up? (Image credit: Gerald Herbert/AP)Continue Reading
California will need $21.5 billion to clean up its oil sites. Who’s going to pay for it?
As industry transitions away from fossil fuels, its profits will exceed remediation costs.Continue Reading
California emerges as big winner in Colorado River water deal
IMPERIAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, CA – APRIL 04: Lower Colorado River in Arizona and California on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 in the IWR, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) California emerges as big winner in Colorado River water deal Water & DroughtContinue Reading
Ron DeSantis Outlines Vision To Remold Supreme Court, Takes Subtle Jab At The Traitor
The Florida governor appeared in full campaign mode as he discussed a two-term plan to make the court more conservative., Read MoreContinue Reading
Fox News Pundit Receives Easiest Fact-Check Live On Air
Republican former Congressman Jason Chaffetz’s claim took just seconds to dismantle., Read MoreContinue Reading
“We got to rise up, everyone”: Rep. Jamaal Bowman battles the normalization of The Traitor
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., may only be in his second term in the House of Representatives, but he is not wasting any time trying to shake up the system. He has recently and very publicly challenged GOP members of Congress, from Marjorie Taylor Greene to Thomas Massie on issues fromContinue Reading
Midcentury Modern Furniture Owes Its Popularity to the Welfare State
The first televised presidential debate, in 1960, began with both candidates sitting before approaching their respective podiums. Nixon was memorably not telegenic: sweaty and uncomfortable. On the chair next to him, Kennedy, with his legs crossed, appears relaxed, youthful, and handsome. In the intervening 60 years, we have come toContinue Reading
The cyber gulag: How Russia tracks, censors and controls its citizens
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Yekaterina Maksimova can’t afford to be late, the journalist and activist avoids taking the Moscow subway, even though it’s probably the most efficient route. That’s because she’s been detained five times in the past year, thanks to the system’s pervasive security cameras with facial recognition.Continue Reading
TikTok files lawsuit to overturn Montana’s 1st-in-nation ban on the video sharing app
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Social media company TikTok Inc. filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to overturn Montana’s first-in-the-nation ban on the video sharing app, arguing the law is an unconstitutional violation of free speech rights and is based on “unfounded speculation” that the Chinese government could access users’ data. TheContinue Reading
8 tips for parents and teens on social media use — from the U.S. surgeon general
Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, is calling for “immediate action” by tech companies and lawmakers to protect kids’ and adolescents’ mental health on social media, Read MoreContinue Reading
Car seats and baby formula are regulated. Is social media next?
The U.S. surgeon general is warning there is not enough evidence to show that social media is safe for young people, Read MoreContinue Reading
T4T Transgender Showcase: What’s On In Queer Melbourne
Back by popular demand, T4T Transgender Showcase brings the best Trans performers onstage for a celebration of pure and unbridled trans expression! Host Anna Piper Scott is quick to admit … The post T4T Transgender Showcase: What’s On In Queer Melbourne appeared first on Star Observer…Read MoreContinue Reading
Not your grandfather’s cold war
The US-China rivalry is escalating, but its dynamics are very different from the clash between the US and the USSR., As tensions between China and the United States are escalating, there is much talk among scholars and commentators about a new Cold War between the two powers. US officials have also indicated thatContinue Reading