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How long would it take to walk around Moon?
Apr 21, 2021 04:52Research from NASA has suggested that it is possible for humans to maneuver much faster on the Moon than the Apollo astronauts did in their missions between 1969 and 1972. Theoretically, walking the circumference of the Moon could be done faster than previously predicted.
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US biggest county jails are sites of extreme environmental injustice
Apr 21, 2021 04:49A 2020 study on how US mass incarceration contributes to climate change found that increasing state-level incarceration rates between 1997 and 2016 were correlated with increases in industrial emissions and the use of toxic chemicals, because of the expansion of industrial prison supply manufacturing operations.
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Capitol police knew Trump’s mob would attack Congress but were unprepared anyway
Apr 20, 2021 12:11Capitol Police knew ahead of January 6 that Congress itself was the target of the Donald Trump-fueled mob that violently breached the Capitol, but the police department’s leaders ignored warnings and were thoroughly unprepared for the mob, a new report from the department’s watchdog has found.
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George Floyd killing: Protests flare as Americans await verdict in Chauvin trial
Apr 20, 2021 12:07Protests against police killings flared across the US this weekend, from Minneapolis to Chicago to Portland, as Americans wait for a verdict in the trial of the white police officer charged with murdering George Floyd last year. Closing arguments were presented in the Derek Chauvin trial on Monday (19 Apr 2021).
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'Racist, unconstitutional, and anti-democratic': Florida Senate passes GOP anti-protest bill
Apr 20, 2021 12:06After Florida's Senate Republicans on Thursday, April 15th passed an undemocratic anti-protest bill, the state's ACLU chapter condemned GOP lawmakers for "aiming to shut down political speech they disagree with in a direct attack on the First Amendment and at the cost of Black and Brown people."
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Anger erupts over Biden plan to keep Trump-era refugee cap
Apr 20, 2021 03:47Reneging on his earlier promise to raise the refugee admissions cap to 62,500 this fiscal year, President Joe Biden on Friday signed a directive keeping in place the historically low 15,000-person limit imposed by the Trump administration—a decision that sparked furious backlash from human rights campaigners.
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Biden breaks campaign promise, approves arms sale to Saudi Arabia
Apr 19, 2021 10:50Above and beyond the reach of powerful politicians is the true business of the United States, its most profitable enterprise and its ideologically ingrained mission: war. Practically nothing seems to get in the way of imperialism and war, and specifically the sale of U.S. war weapons abroad.
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Keep Ukraine out of NATO
Apr 19, 2021 10:43Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has started calling on the US and NATO to expedite Ukraine’s membership in the alliance in a “signal” to Moscow in response to a buildup of Russian forces along the border. Zelensky has said “NATO is the only way to end the war in Donbass.” It would be more accurate to say that talk of NATO membership is a good way to ensure that the war in the Donbass escalates and spreads.
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Daunte Wright killing: Biden acknowledging Black “Pain” isn’t enough, he helped create it
Apr 19, 2021 10:18US President Joe Biden signed many executive orders in the early days of his presidency, and has subsequently taken a number of actions and allocated tax dollars to many other groups, at the exclusion of Black Americans.
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Wildfire researchers forecast 2021 fire season in US that may be more severe than 2020
Apr 18, 2021 12:28Indeed, the combination of low winter rainfall, fewer new shrubs and plant growth this spring, and a predicted dry summer are of great concern to climatologists and wildfire researchers. The upcoming wildfire season in the US could top even 2020, which, for the state of California, was its most severe in modern history.