Thursday, July 30, 2026

Tag: wildlife protection

House GOP cancels endangered species vote amid backlash while advancing food...

A planned Earth Day rollback of wildlife protections collapsed under public pressure and internal divisions as Republicans continued pursuing cuts to nutrition programs alongside rising war spending.

Republicans spearhead Congress’s assault on endangered species with 2024 bill riders

Endangered wildlife faces a new threat as Congress's 2024 bill riders, largely driven by Republicans, push species closer to extinction.

Enough with the fake rhino horns

Scientists have once again developed a method to fabricate horns in the lab, supposedly to disrupt poachers and wildlife traffickers. Here’s why that won’t work.

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Supreme Court curbs judicial review of TPS terminations, putting hundreds of thousands at risk...

In Mullin v. Doe, a 6-3 majority held that federal courts generally cannot second-guess Homeland Security's decisions to end Temporary Protected Status.
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Claude disobeyed Anthropic CEO in simulations

In testing, Claude went against boss’s orders and helped an employee blow the whistle about a safety concern
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Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties

The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
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Trump administration’s mass layoffs at NIOSH gut program investigating firefighter deaths

A ProPublica investigation found the April cuts reached the unit that reviews line-of-duty fire deaths and a landmark firefighter cancer registry, though the administration later reinstated some staff.