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Iran held a state funeral for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top nuclear scientist who was assassinated while driving on a highway outside of Tehran on Friday. Iran accused Israel of orchestrating the killing, which Iran says may have been conducted by an automatic remote-controlled machine gun placed inside an empty vehicle. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said … Read the rest
If there’s one question about coronavirus that we ask more than any other, it’s surely “What is my risk?”
Not only “What’s my risk of catching the virus”, but, were that to happen, “What’s my risk of falling seriously ill? Of being taken to hospital? Of dying?”
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A bill to federally legalize marijuana will receive a full floor vote in the U.S. House of Representatives next week, a top Democratic leader in the chamber announced on Friday.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said the chamber will take up the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act some time between Wednesday and … Read the rest
As the North Atlantic right whale was placed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s list of critically endangered species Thursday, environmental protection groups accusing the U.S. government of bowing to fishing and fossil fuel industry pressure to downplay the threat and failing to enact common-sense restrictions to protect the animals.
Only 400 right … Read the rest
Anti-pipeline activists are celebrating after Duke Energy and Dominion Energy announced they are dropping plans to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 600-mile pipeline that would have carried fracked gas from West Virginia to North Carolina and threatened rural Indigenous, Black and Brown communities. “There was an awful lot of opposition to this,” says Donna … Read the rest
Amazon Web Services is currently having an outage, taking a chunk of the internet down with it.
Several AWS services were experiencing problems as of early Wednesday, according to its status page. That means any app, site or service that relies on AWS might also be down, too. (As I found out the hard … Read the rest
Amidst the racial rancour that is the 2020 United States election, Native American voters have an opportunity never seen before.
To get to the 270 electoral college votes and the U.S. presidency, Democratic candidate Joe Biden or Republican counterpart Donald Trump are going to need to win (some or all of): Arizona (11 electoral votes), … Read the rest
Financial support for marijuana legalization, both medical and recreational, has grown significantly in 2020 compared to 2016.
Proponents of state ballot measures have outraised opponents this election season by almost 36-to-1, a massive increase from four years ago when advocates outstripped the opposition by only 4-to-1.
Supporters of the legalization measures in Arizona, Mississippi… Read the rest
We still don’t know with certainty who will be the next president of the United States. But this year’s election results have given us a lot more clarity on one thing: American voters, even conservative ones, are ready to reel back the US’s war on drugs.
In every state where a ballot measure asked Americans … Read the rest