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Inter Press Service

  • Argentina is Experiencing an Oil Boom, with Bright Spots and Shadows

    For about three years now, Argentines have been hearing almost every month that oil production is breaking new records. Looking ahead, the country is projected to become a major global supplier of what remains the most sought-after energy source.  These developments, presented as hopeful news for an economy that has been in deep crisis for

  • New Survey: US Funding Freeze Triggers Global Crisis in Human Rights and Democracy

    A new survey carried out by the EU System for an Enabling Environment (EU SEE) network exposes the impact of the US funding freeze on civil society organisations (CSOs) in over 50 countries. With 67% of surveyed organisations directly impacted and 40% of them losing between 25-50% of their budgets, the abrupt halt in funding

  • Musk is Wrong. Empathy is Not a Weakness

    “The fundamental weakness is empathy,” Musk recently told radio podcast host Joe Rogan. “There is a bug, which is the empathy response.” As Musk has established himself as at least the second most powerful person in an administration seeking a wholesale remaking of institutions, rules and norms, what he said matters, because it encapsulates a

The Guardian

  • Republican senator Lisa Murkowski says she is ‘disturbed’ by federal firings and unafraid of Musk – live

    The Alaska senator made the remarks in an address to the state’s lawmakers and said she will not ‘compromise’ integrityDemocratic congressman Glenn Ivey told constituents at a town hall meeting in his Maryland district that Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s Democratic minority leader, should step down from his position after a bitter intraparty fight over government funding last week, HuffPost reports.Ivey is the first member of Congress to say Schumer should leave his leadership position, after the leader supplied enough votes to pass a Republican-backed government funding bill through the Senate. House Democrats had near-unanimously rejected the measure, and many in the party believe Schumer, who argued the bill was better than […]

  • ‘He is innocent’: family of deported Venezuelan rebukes Trump claims

    Brother of Francisco Javier García Casique spotted him in a video showing scores of Venezuelan prisoners being taken to notorious El Salvador prisonDonald Trump’s White House has described the Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador as “heinous monsters” and terrorists who “rape, maim and murder for sport”.But relatives of Francisco Javier García Casique, a 24-year-old from the city of Maracay, say he was a hairdresser, not a crook. Continue reading...

  • University of California imposes hiring freeze in response to Trump cuts

    President Michael Drake also directs campuses to cut costs, such as delaying maintenance and reducing business travelThe University of California has imposed a system-wide hiring freeze and made additional cuts, its president said on Wednesday, as part of efforts to mitigate the expected impact of sharp cuts in federal funding under the Trump administration.In a letter to staff and students, the school’s president, Michael Drake, said he had also directed all UC locations to implement cost-saving measures, such as delaying maintenance and reducing business travel, to help conserve funds. Continue reading...

  • Judge orders Trump administration to return two trans prisoners to women’s facilities

    Federal Bureau of Prisons told to transfer women back and provide hormone therapy treatment for gender dysphoriaA judge on Wednesday ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons (BoP) to transfer two incarcerated transgender women back to federal women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s facilities after Donald Trump’s executive order that truncated transgender protections.US district judge Royce Lamberth in Washington DC issued a preliminary injunction after the women were added as plaintiffs in ongoing litigation over the impact of the president’s executive order on trans women in federal prisons. Continue reading...

  • I am a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana. I am being targeted for my activism | Mahmoud Khalil

    The Columbia graduate and green-card holder, held in Louisiana by immigration agents, dictated this letter to family and friendsMy name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices under way against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to […]

Ensia

  • Journalists, meet climate change

    The headlines scream about war, crime, political strife, economic woes. But underlying it all — and more and more often bubbling to the top — is what future historians will likely look back and call the story of this century: Climate change. Recognizing the importance of this pervasive phenomenon, Covering Climate Now, Columbia Journalism Review, the Solutions Journalism Network, The Guardian […]

The Marshall Project

Fair Observer

  • FO° Talks: Every Theory of Constitutional Interpretation Is Wrong

    Anton Schauble introduces Mark Tushnet, a leading scholar of constitutional law who has taught at prestigious universities and clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Mark’s recent book, Who Am I to Judge? Judicial Craft Versus Constitutional Theory, argues that no theory of constitutional interpretation is effective in constraining judicial decision-making, not just the… Continue reading FO° Talks: Every Theory of Constitutional Interpretation Is Wrong The post FO° Talks: Every Theory of Constitutional Interpretation Is Wrong appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • Trump Turns in His Chessboard for a Deck of Cards

    It all began on February 28 at the most climactic geopolitical moment of 2025, when Volodymyr Zelenskyy confronted an increasingly aggressive tagteam composed of US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office. Losing patience with the Ukrainian president who was clearly begging for reassurance that the US would not veer… Continue reading Trump Turns in His Chessboard for a Deck of Cards The post Trump Turns in His Chessboard for a Deck of Cards appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • Outside the Box: AI’s Honest Take on Europe’s Ambiguity, Part 2

    In Part 1, we discussed the current surprisingly extreme rhetoric used by some European leaders in reaction to their sense of having been betrayed by the United States’s new Trump administration concerning the war in Ukraine. ChatGPT judged that “the current geopolitical landscape has prompted leaders to adopt more assertive stances, which, while aiming to… Continue reading Outside the Box: AI’s Honest Take on Europe’s Ambiguity, Part 2 The post Outside the Box: AI’s Honest Take on Europe’s Ambiguity, Part 2 appeared first on Fair Observer.

Aeon

  • By the time I reach him

    ‘My dad will be gone by the time I reach him’ – a filmmaker captures the first time their father forgets who they are - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Truthout

ProPublica

Unicorn Riot

  • Immigrant Rights Leader Jeanette Vizguerra Detained by ICE, Community Holds Vigil Outside GEO Center

    Aurora, CO — On Monday, longtime immigrant rights leader Jeanette Vizguerra was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers (ICE) and has been incarcerated at the for-profit GEO ICE Detention Center in Aurora since. Supporters of Vizguerra, including her children, have been rallying outside… The post Immigrant Rights Leader Jeanette Vizguerra Detained by ICE, Community Holds Vigil Outside GEO Center appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

Sludge

  • Schumer Surrenders On Air

    The highest-ranking elected Democrat said that he will wait for President Trump to defy the Supreme Court before taking stronger action.

Democracy Now!

  • Democracy Now! 2025-03-19 Wednesday

    Headlines for March 19, 2025; Israeli Strikes Kill 174+ Children in Gaza as Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire to Save Political Career; “We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship”: Elie Mystal on Trump’s Lawlessness, Attacks on the Judiciary; ICE Agents Detain Immigrant Leader Jeanette Vizguerra, Who Once Sought Sanctuary in Denver Church; Sabotaging Social Security: Trump & Musk Move Ahead with Plan to Cut Agency Staff & Critical Services

Latino USA

  • Can El Salvador Really Jail Americans?

    In early February, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele made an unprecedented and controversial offer: to incarcerate U.S. citizens in El Salvador.... The post Can El Salvador Really Jail Americans? appeared first on Latino USA.

  • The Real Lives of Human Smugglers With Jason De León

    Renowned anthropologist Jason De León was at a migrant shelter in Chiapas, Mexico in 2015 when he was getting ready... The post The Real Lives of Human Smugglers With Jason De León appeared first on Latino USA.

  • Teresa Urrea: The Mexican Joan of Arc

    In 1892, the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz exiled Teresa Urrea from Mexico. He called her the most dangerous girl in... The post Teresa Urrea: The Mexican Joan of Arc appeared first on Latino USA.

Yale Environment 360

The Appeal

WhoWhatWhy

Inside Climate News

  • EPA Deregulation Would Be a ‘Tragedy’ for Health, Experts Say

    The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rollbacks of pollution regulations would kill Americans and be a “tragedy” for health, physicians and public health experts say. At a virtual panel hosted by the American Lung Association on Wednesday, physicians and health experts highlighted the human health implications of the EPA’s efforts to roll back regulations on particulate

  • New Study Reinforces Worries About Pulses of Rapid Sea Level Rise

    A new analysis of ancient layers of peat at the bottom of the North Sea will help scientists more accurately project how much sea level will rise in the coming decades and centuries. The research shows how fast sea level rose about 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, the last

Grist

The Conversation

The Trace

  • Several Law Enforcement Agencies Have Stopped Reselling Guns

    More than a dozen law enforcement agencies have stopped reselling their used guns or pledged to reconsider the practice after an investigation by The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.  The investigation, published last year, revealed that more than 52,000 former police guns had resurfaced in robberies, domestic violence incidents, The post Several Law Enforcement Agencies Have Stopped Reselling Guns appeared first on The Trace.

  • In the Trump Era, One Gun Reform Group Shifts Focus From Politics to Economics

    With a Republican-dominated Congress and President Donald Trump back in the White House, many gun reform advocates fear that the country’s progress on firearm safety policy will stall out, or possibly reverse course. Guns Down America is charting a different path. The gun violence prevention organization has long been one of the more unorthodox of The post In the Trump Era, One Gun Reform Group Shifts Focus From Politics to Economics appeared first on The Trace.

  • Philadelphia Moves to Bolster Violence Prevention As Federal Funds Evaporate

    Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s new budget proposal fully funds the city’s violence prevention programs, which officials say were instrumental in reducing homicides and shootings by more than 35 percent last year. During a March 13 budget address, Parker reiterated that public safety is her top priority. Her $6.7 billion budget proposal includes $186.4 million in The post Philadelphia Moves to Bolster Violence Prevention As Federal Funds Evaporate appeared first on The Trace.

Quanta Magazine

  • Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case.

    Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists are back with an even bigger map, and a stronger conclusion. The post Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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