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- The foods that do the most damage to our climate
Emissions from food systems around the world are stopping us from hitting key climate change targets of lower temperatures, according to a recent report in Science. A conservative estimate by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations puts agriculture’s contribution to total greenhouse gas emissions at 14.5 ... read more - Progressives look to make early mark on Biden White House
Leading progressives are pressuring President-elect Joe Biden to embrace their policy agenda even as more centrist Democrats argue such proposals prevented the party from retaking full control of Congress. For now, much of the lobbying centers on who Biden should — or should not — appoint to key posts ... read more - In Georgia, Trump's shadow looms over pair of Senate runoffs
President Donald Trump won’t be on the ballot in January when Georgia voters settle two Senate runoffs that will determine control of the U.S. Senate. After watching turnout surge in last week's election, the parties are banking on using Trump — both rage against him and devotion to him ... read more - Biden moves forward without help from Trump's intel team
The presidential race was hovering in limbo in 2000 when outgoing President Bill Clinton decided to let then-Gov. George W. Bush read the ultra-secret daily brief of the nation’s most sensitive intelligence. Clinton was a Democrat and his vice president, Al Gore, was running against Republican Bush. Gore had ... read more - Vatican report reveals anonymous letters accusing McCarrick
The Vatican’s report on ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick revealed the previously unknown contents of six anonymous letters accusing him of pedophilia that were sent to U.S. church leaders in the early 1990s and later forwarded to the Holy See. New York's then-archbishop, Cardinal John O'Connor, forwarded them to the Vatican ... read more - The tasks Joe Biden faces: from racial justice to restoring faith in science
The new president will be busy – especially as he wrestles with the fallout from the Trump administration The coronavirus pandemic and healthcareAs the coronavirus pandemic tore through the US, Joe Biden’s most important promise to the American people was a policy platform taken for granted prior the Trump ... read more - Christian churches mirror country's political division
The messages in Christian houses of worship on the first weekend since the election were as divided as the country's electorate, with religious leaders mostly calling for peace and unification even as some bemoaned the result and others celebrated. Hours after the news broke Saturday of Democrat Joe Biden's ... read more - Joe Biden: Stumbles, tragedies and, now, delayed triumph
Days before he left the White House in 2017, President Barack Obama surprised Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, declaring his septuagenarian, white-haired lieutenant “the best vice president America’s ever had,” a “lion of American history.” The tribute marked the presumed end of a long public life ... read more - DISYS Harnesses IT to Promote Positive Global Outcomes
A new initiative with the Government of Bihar leverages technology to maximize efficiency in agricultural production while effecting social changeMCLEAN, Va., Nov. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Intelligence Systems, LLC (DISYS), a global technology services firm, announces that it was selected by the Government of Bihar, India and ... read more - 2020 Latest: Trump again seeks to stop the counting of votes
With Joe Biden edging closer to unseating him from the White House, President Donald Trump says he wants to put a halt to vote counting. Elections are run by individual state, county and local governments. Trump’s comments come as his campaign has filed legal action in several states to ... read more - Election 2020 Today: Biden on brink, America protests
ON THE BRINK: Joe Biden needs to clinch just one more battleground state to defeat President Donald Trump. The Democrat already has won the fiercely contested prizes of Michigan and Wisconsin, part of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats four years ago. Two days after Election Day, ... read more - North Korea introduces smoking ban in public places
North Korea on Wednesday introduced smoking bans in some public places to provide citizens with “hygienic living environments,” raising questions about whether the nation’s chain-smoking supreme leader may kick the habit himself. The new law introduced by the governing Supreme People’s Assembly aims to protect the lives and health ... read more - Israel razes most of Palestinian Bedouin village in West Bank on U.S. election day
The demolition of the village in the occupied West Bank displaced 73 people, including 41 children, a United Nations official said. ... read more - Kosovo president resigns to face war crimes charges
Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci, a guerrilla leader during Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia in the late 1990s, resigned on Thursday and will face charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special court based in The Hague. Thaci said he was taking the step “to protect ... read more - Brussels predicts slow UK economic recovery from coronavirus hit if there is a no deal Brexit
Britain's economy will grow by 3.3 percent next year after the devastating impact of coronavirus, even if there is a no deal Brexit, according to European Commission predictions. The commission’s Autumn Forecast is the first based on assumption that trade talks with Brussels will fail and the UK will ... read more
- News Roundup: Trump’s allies defy Congress as Trump himself celebrates an insurrectionist
In the news today: Trump allies implicated in Donald Trump's seditious plan to topple the government continue to defy House subpoenas—and House investigators do not seem to be responding with the urgency the situation requires. Trump himself taped a video praising the insurrectionist who was shot and killed as the ... read more - Hack in charge of partisan Wisconsin election review admits he doesn’t know how elections work
When Donald Trump inevitably chokes to death while trying to swallow an entire Costco rotisserie chicken, you can pretty much guarantee he’ll still be clinging to his nonsensical claims about the 2020 election. His belief that he was robbed last November is simply impervious to facts. Meanwhile, any meager ... read more - Slow-moving coup is still moving
Whatever you think of Bill Maher, this is the most important thing he’s said all year. Trump has been methodically purging the GOP of anyone who stands up for democracy, while red state legislators have greatly expanded their power in elections by stripping control from nonpartisan local boards and removing ... read more - Anti-vaxxers yelling at school kids get a response they weren’t expecting
Across the country there has been a Koch-funded Republican caravan of anti-mask and anti-vaccine protests. The levels of disruption and threats to school boards and students getting back to school has varied. Republican operatives have used this as an issue with which they can promote what is left of their long-abandoned ... read more - Secretary Deb Haaland competing in the Boston Marathon is about much more than the winner’s podium
Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland kicked off Indigenous Peoples’ Day by participating in the Boston Marathon on Monday, Oct. 11. Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna, is the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary. Among her goals as the U.S. secretary of ... read more - Eric Clapton now funding anti-vaxxer musicians group in the U.K., proving once again he’s a jackass
I think it’s time we all simply agree that Eric Clapton is a racist, right-wing, anti-vaxxer nutjob. Deny as he might that his tirades are just drug- or alcohol-fueled outbursts if it walks like a duck and quacks like a bigot, it’s a bigoted ignoramus. So I guess it’s no ... read more - ‘You can hurt me!’ Black man with paraplegia yells to try to get officers to stop dragging him
Body camera footage shows Ohio police officers dragging a Black man out of his car and pulling his hair after the man told officers he is paraplegic and called someone for help. Officials with the Dayton Police Department said in a community briefing that officers had been alerted to a suspected ... read more - You don’t have to wait for someone to come ‘out’ to you to be a good ally to LGBTQ people
While recognizing National Coming Out Day on Monday, Oct. 11, President Joe Biden called on the Senate to finally, finally, finally pass the Equality Act, which would ban discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity, as well as for lawmakers to defeat anti-trans bills that have ... read more - Wisconsin immigrants and Latinos strike for citizenship: ‘No school, no work, no buying’
Wisconsin’s Voces de la Frontera Action (VDLFA) said over the weekend that more than 100 businesses across the state were shutting down Monday, Oct. 11 in solidarity with the Day Without Latinx & Immigrants movement, to both highlight the economic contributions of these communities and to continue calling on Democrats in Washington, D.C., to ... read more - North Carolina’s lieutenant governor is adamant he won’t resign after calling LGBTQ people ‘filth’
North Carolina’s Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is hearing calls for his resignation after homophobic, transphobic, anti-education, and bigoted-across-the-board comments he made at a church went viral. In the video first posted by Right Wing Watch on Twitter, Robinson seems to be promoting the need for “Christians” to take control of ... read more - Anti-vaxx Chronicles: #Godhasaplan and it includes getting vaccinated. Blue didn’t listen
Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, and catch the occasional whiff of seditionist ... read more - McConnell sends Biden another debt ceiling hostage note
The day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blinked and scraped together 11 Republican senators to prevent a global economic meltdown, he was back to making threats to blow it all up in December. Next time, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a typically obnoxious letter to President Joe ... read more - News Roundup: California to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations; Facebook still spreading COVID hoaxes
In the news today: The FDA is widely expected to approve COVID-19 vaccination for children in coming weeks; in preparation for that moves, California is becoming the first state to require COVID-19 vaccination for all public school children who become eligible. Facebook, in the meantime, continues to allow deadly ... read more - The cynical reason Ohio Republicans punted on drawing a new congressional map
In a very strange development, Ohio's Republican-run legislature has ceded control of congressional redistricting to a so-called "backup" commission by missing a Sept. 30 deadline to pass new maps set in the state constitution. Given how jealously lawmakers everywhere protect their power, it's necessary to ask why Buckeye Republicans ... read more - New legislation protecting NYC delivery workers is just the beginning, organizers say
by Jennifer Chowdhury This story was originally published at Prism. On Sept. 23, the New York City Council passed a historic set of bills establishing safety and security for delivery workers, particularly those working for food delivery apps. The legislation, which was sent to Mayor Bill de ... read more
- Brazil leader accused of “crimes against humanity” for deforestationClimate lawyers want the International Criminal Court to prosecute President Jair Bolsonaro for "aiding and abetting… crimes such as murder, persecution and other inhumane acts." ... read more
- Protests in Rome against COVID-19 “Green Pass” turn violentPolice and demonstrators clashed in Rome over an imminent requirement for workers in Italy to have a "Green Pass" certificate to prove that they have been either vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from COVID-19. Chris Livesay has more. ... read more
- London police dropping sexual assault investigation of Prince AndrewLondon's Metropolitan Police announced they were dropping their investigation into sexual assault charges against the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, after reviewing evidence presented by American Virginia Giuffre, who says she was forced to have sex with the prince at the age of 17. Senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports ... read more
- U.K. police taking “no further action” against Prince AndrewLondon's police "taking no further action" against Andrew after reviewing evidence presented by Virginia Giuffre, who says she was forced to have sex with the prince at the age of 17. ... read more
- Army General who commanded in Iraq dies of cancer at age 67In a joint statement, the president and first lady Jill Biden recalled that Odierno spoke at the funeral of their son Beau, who served under Odierno in Iraq and died of brain cancer in 2015. ... read more
- Enjoying “Volcanic pizza” in GuatemalaFor years, tourists in Guatemala have climbed the Pacaya volcano with a bag of marshmallows in order to roast them on hot lava rocks. But now, on many days, David Garcia serves up another culinary option for hikers: pizza, heated by a volcano. CBS News political correspondent Ed O'Keeffe reports. ... read more
- Pope calls on lawmakers to quickly reach consensus on climate change fightThe pope addressed parliamentarians who were in Rome for a preparatory meeting before the U.N's annual climate conference. ... read more
- Perseverance rover finds evidence of ancient flash floods on MarsThe floodwaters dragged giant boulders dozens of miles, from the mountains to the end of an ancient river delta. ... read more
- Nobel Peace Prize goes to journalists from Philippines and RussiaMaria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were cited for their fight for freedom of the press against repressive regimes. ... read more
- Migrants are caught in Belarus-EU “hybrid warfare,” and it’s killing themThe EU says Belarus is luring migrants and refugees from conflict zones, touting easy passage into Europe. Migrants say Poland is forcing them right back over the border. ... read more
- ISIS-K is working to undermine, even infiltrate the Taliban regimeSources tell CBS News the leader of Afghanistan's ISIS affiliate is working against the Taliban rulers from both inside and outside the group. That could quickly become a U.S. problem. ... read more
- How the rich and powerful can use U.K. real estate to hide their cashOne activist says the wealthy elite's ability to purchase British property through shell companies is an "Achilles heel" in the battle against corruption. ... read more
- “Riverdale” creator pleads for release of father, who is a political prisoner in Nicaragua"The biggest fear is that I'm not gonna get a chance to see him again," "Riverdale" creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa told CBS News. ... read more
- Indian official’s son faces probe over deadly attack on protesters8 people were left dead after vehicles slammed into a group of farmers protesting agricultural reforms, and a government minister's son is accused of plotting it. ... read more
- Sweden halts use of Moderna’s COVID vaccine in under 30sNational health agency says "very minor" risk of certain side effects appears linked to 2nd dose of the vaccine, and was more prevalent among young men and boys. ... read more
