Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Japan Kills 333 Minke Whales Including 200 Pregnant Females

Japan’s Fisheries Agency resumed its whaling program in the Antarctic Ocean despite a landmark 2014 ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Trump’s wildlife protection board supports trophy hunting

Although Trump had openly tweeted about being against hunting, some members of this advisory board have direct ties with the president and his family.

Former police chief and two officers arrested for framing innocent teen

A former police chief and two former patrol officers from Florida allegedly conspired to frame a 16-year-old for four unsolved local burglaries.

Your employer can now match your student loan repayments as 401(k) contributions

When someone makes a student loan payment, their employer can contribute that same amount of money to the employee’s retirement plan under Section 110 of a federal law known as the SECURE Act 2.0.

Berkeley Soda Tax Is Working

Are Berkeley residents better off?

Murder before the fall? The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi puts a target on Saudi...

While the position that the United States and its allies take will be important, especially if they impose sanctions, the case is perhaps more interesting for what it says about the region’s growing rivalries.
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This is voting in 2016: Armed intimidation squads, purged rolls, 868 fewer polling stations

All of this comes as this year’s presidential election is the first in half a century to take place without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act.

Former cop charged with beating unarmed man on video

The police officer was previously arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence.

Bayou Bridge resistance: The pipeline fight heads to the south

Opponents of the pipeline say it could wreck the region's fragile ecology, damaging the basin and destroying Louisiana’s multi-million dollar crawfish industry.

Eruptions of rage in Minneapolis and across the US over the cop murder of...

The reason these other cities are seeing these uprisings in response to the police murder of George Floyd is because each of these cities has it’s own brutal, militarized police force which regularly abuses black and poor people too.