A surprise decision by President Emmanuel Macron to hold a snap election appears to have backfired badly, giving the National Rally a decisive victory, early returns showed.
A military lab found distinctive damage from repeated blast exposure in every brain it tested, but Navy SEAL leaders were kept in the dark about the pattern.
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> There is no precedent for a storm to intensify this quickly, nor reach this strength, in this part of the ocean during the month of June. Records date to 1851. > >While flukes happen, there is a firm link between rapid intensification (the strengthening of hurricanes) and human-induced climate change. Ocean waters are running 3 or 4 degrees above average, reminiscent of August rather than June. In some cases, records are being set. It’s unsurprising that the atmosphere is responding accordingly.
Climate change helped fuel an explosion of dengue cases in the Americas, including Puerto Rico, as mosquitoes multiply in warmer, wetter weather.
With countless calls and a rush of campaign events, the president’s team began a damage-control effort to pressure and plead with anxious Democratic lawmakers, surrogates, activists and donors.
Santos is pursuing the climate movement through the courts after winning a challenge brought by traditional owners against a massive gas project. Experts warn it could help spell the end of public interest litigation in Australia.
The Detroit Police Department arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches, a national record. But it’s adopting new policies that even the A.C.L.U. endorses.
The Detroit Police Department arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches, a national record. But it’s adopting new policies that even the A.C.L.U. endorses.
Extreme heat is making it harder for rescue helicopters to take off.
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Trump substantially closed the funding gap
The outcome of the election is very much in doubt, and the reality is that Trump could win and put in place his dream of a thousand years of rich rapists
Long-running battles in the Himalayas may foretell a more dangerous conflict.
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They were asked, and Trump just gave blather which didn't respond to the question. Biden responded to his blather
The court swept aside a precedent that endangers countless regulations — and transfers power from the executive branch to Congress and the courts.
More potential hazards loom even as the waters slowly recede across the upper Plains.
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Four cases backed by conservative activists in recent years have combined to diminish the power of the Environmental Protection Agency.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10983081
> The key thing here is that the court has a right-wing majority due to Trump appointing Federalist Society members to it. They're in it for the gratuities., and will always favor profit over people as a result.
Four cases backed by conservative activists in recent years have combined to diminish the power of the Environmental Protection Agency.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10983081
> The key thing here is that the court has a right-wing majority due to Trump appointing Federalist Society members to it. They're in it for the gratuities., and will always favor profit over people as a result.
Trump said he had “the best environmental numbers ever” without giving any specifics while Biden lambasted his predecessor for his environmental claims and for pulling out of the Paris Agreement, but failed to detail many of his own administration’s efforts to confront climate change.
Four cases backed by conservative activists in recent years have combined to diminish the power of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The key thing here is that the court has a right-wing majority due to Trump appointing Federalist Society members to it. They're in it for the gratuities., and will always favor profit over people as a result.
And here I was thinking "crime" in public surveys meant "I see people with darker skin than me sometimes" rather than any kind of actual criminal behavior.
Not entirely though actually getting anything past the courts is going to mean something like expanding the court to disempower the Republicans there.
That's probably become increasingly untenable. So he just responds with nonsense instead of a meaningful answer.
Yes, once the anti-vax anti-mask folks got their footing, it was pretty much guaranteed that we'd see a lot of deaths.
But what does "has to" mean anyways? The reality is motivated judge can rule pretty much anything as "ambiguous"
The debate has had a remarkably slight impact on public opinion to date. It's not clear that it'll shift things in any kind of meaningful way.
Getting something done means having enough Democrats in the Senate who want to change the rules. That's a tough lift
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine could prevent federal agencies from issuing ambitious climate and wildlife rules, lawyers say.
Sorry, but the judge is hoping for a gratuity
There are things we could have done better; the US isn't some island of perfection, but it was on the whole, a decent response after Biden took office.
Smallpox is a disease where vaccination once protects you for life.
The current round of vaccines for COVID protect you for several months.
There's a difference in outcomes because of that. I'll also note that a big chunk of China didn't get vaccinated either, and that we have a really active anti-vax contingent in the US with the support of Trump and the other Republicans.
It's not the end; it's not something that ever ends, in the same way that influenza still kills people.
But vaccines got us from a disease that was killing an awful lot more people to one where it's one that kills a few.
Yes actually — he started sabotaging pandemic response as soon as it became known that in the absence of vaccines, the disease would disproportionately harm minority communities which have less access to care.
That's the idea: extract the oil, pay out everything as dividends or share buybacks, and then sell the well to a doomed-to-fail company which can declare bankruptcy and leave the public responsible for cleaning up the mess. The oil industry has a long history of taking advantage of inadequate bond requirements for oil wells to do exactly that.
If you're in the US, the basic answer looks like this:
- Talk to people about what they're actually doing and what's going on.
- Check your voter registration so you can actually vote against them
- volunteer when you can
- provide what financial support you can to both the Presidential candidate and to those downballot.
Which is why I'm going to do what I can to prevent that: I care about policy, not about how the candidates look or anything.
It means his team arranged for actual delivery, federal payments, and not just dumping it on the system, which weren't prepared