Google says it bans gun ads. It actually makes money from them.
The tech giant has long boasted that it doesn’t accept ads for firearms, but a ProPublica analysis shows that Google’s ad systems served up more than 100 million ads from gun makers.
Gaza cease-fire takes effect amid deadly delays and persistent uncertainty
Cease-fire begins after a deadly delay, with hostage releases and humanitarian aid efforts underway.
Report from McAllen, Texas: No one knows what will happen now to separated migrant...
"So it might be many months, and in some cases maybe over a year ... before parents before they even get a chance of sponsoring and seeing their children again."
EPA grants bee-killing pesticide ’emergency’ approval; a ‘routine abuse of emergency exemptions’
"The EPA is routinely misusing the 'emergency' process to get sulfoxaflor approved because it's too toxic to make it through normal pesticide reviews."
Puerto Rico faces a flood of fracked gas in wake of Hurricane Maria
The gas industry and its allies in Congress hope to push LNG exports to the island’s electricity grid, ravaged from climate change-fueled natural disaster.
5 Michigan officials charged with manslaughter in Flint water crisis
Still, no criminal charges have been filed against the governor at this time.
From the kingpins of private equity, a new dagger to democracy
Profit maximizing in the newspaper industry is corroding the knowledge base that sustains government by the people.
EPA will not ban chlorpyrifos
President Trump’s EPA responded yesterday to a petition from public health and environmental groups who had pushed for a ban on the...
Two roads diverge in a gonzo Trump wood—and losers loom
If DeSantis only broke more laws, / He’d be as popular as Santa Claus.
How Israel occupied itself
The 56-year-long brutal occupation of the Palestinian Territories has come home to roost and Israel is now occupying itself.