In the early hours of January 1, 2025, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran, drove his vehicle into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people and injuring over 30 ...
The renewable energy powering Chicago’s municipal operations is primarily sourced from the Double Black Diamond solar farm, the largest solar installation east of the Mississippi River. The move is ...
In their preliminary findings released this week, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation concluded that the herbicide paraquat caused harm to wildlife and human health, including thyroid ...
• A pickup truck driven by Shamsud Din Jabbar plowed into New Orleans’ Bourbon Street crowd, killing 15 and injuring dozens early on New Year’s Day. • After exiting the vehicle, Jabbar opened fire on ...
HR 9495 is not only a danger to civil society’s right to speech—it is a serious escalation in favor of corporations. This fall, shortly after the election, the House passed a dangerous piece of ...
Nobody that knows anything about China can argue with that, though a majority of Americans certainly still view the far-away country through the lens of Soviet communism and rural backwardness. The ...
• Eight tech billionaires, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, added more than $600 billion to their collective net worth, representing 43% of the $1.5 trillion increase among the ...
The Arbor Day Foundation (ADF) has committed to planting 10 million trees in the next four years to replace those lost in six states impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The trees will be planted ...
On December 27, Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza, rendering it inoperative. Witnesses reported that troops set fire to the hospital, forcing ...
With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a phone conversation that Carter had with Trump during his first term. Carter’s ...
Co-published with Capital & Main. Illustrations by Peter Arkle. In December 1990, officials in the federal agency tasked with regulating offshore oil and gas drilling received a memo with a dire ...
In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly-paid workers? This October, the World Bank reported that “8.5 percent of the global ...