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New Zealand’s climate fight includes taxing cattle urine, burps
New Zealand has long committed itself as a world leader in the fight against climate change. Now the nation plans to take its efforts a step further with a new tax on burps from cattle. On Tuesday, the country introduced a controversial greenhouse emissions plan to tax farm animal burps and pee to reduce greenhouse… -
Supreme Court rejects three high-profile appeals
The Supreme Court has rejected three high-profile appeals. The rejected appeals involve embryo rights and death sentences. Tuesday, the high court declined to hear a case that would have granted constitutional rights to embryos and fetuses. The case would have allowed anti-abortion advocates to impose greater limits on the procedure. It was brought by parents… -
LA City Council’s Martinez taking leave of absence after audio leak
Demands for three Los Angeles City Council members to resign are intensifying after a leaked audio recording revealed racist remarks and disparaging comments. The political fallout was sparked by Sunday’s Los Angeles Times report. A leaked conversation involved Council President Nury Martinez and members Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo. Martinez was heard making racist statements, and the… -
Canada may soon put speech limits on online platforms
When it comes to free speech, every country has a limit. For Canada, publicly inciting hatred is a criminal offense that could land you two years in prison. Now the country is considering further speech limitations on online platforms. Canada’s criminal code defines hatred as “communicating statements in any public place, that incites hatred against… -
Tulsi Gabbard ditches ‘woke’ Dems and launches podcast
Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is leaving the Democratic Party. She is also calling on other “common sense, independent-minded Democrats” to exit with her. In a Twitter video posted on Tuesday, the former presidential candidate claimed that the party she is exiting stands for the “powerful elite,” not the people. “I can no longer remain… -
Russian cyberattacks target US airports by shutting down websites
After cyberattacks targeted over a dozen U.S. airports Monday morning. By Monday afternoon, their websites were back online. Airports in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles were impacted by a denial-of-service attack, which overloads sites by jamming them with artificial users. It did not affect transportation security or air traffic control. An intelligence official telling… -
iPhone feature triggers false 911 calls from rollercoasters
A new safety feature on Apple’s iPhone 14 is meant to alert authorities when a user has been in a car crash. But a glitch is causing the feature to be triggered on rollercoasters. It’s happening across the country. According to the Wall Street Journal, Cincinnati authorities fielded six emergency calls from amusement parks since… -
‘Weapons of war have changed’: New Zealand PM warns about speech threats
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern issued a dire warning to world leaders. She proclaimed the “weapons of war have changed” during her speech to the United Nations General Assembly. “A bullet takes a life. A bomb takes out a whole village. A lie online or from a podium does not,” Ardern told the U.N.… -
Chicago residents to benefit from $42 million guaranteed income program
More than 3,000 residents in Cook County, Illinois will be receiving $500 a month for two years. It’s part of the $42 million Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot, funded by the American Rescue Plan Act. It is the largest publicly funded guaranteed income pilot in American history. The application portal opened yesterday and will… -
Russians risk lives to seek asylum in US, avoid fighting in Putin’s war
Russian nationals are risking their lives to avoid fighting in the war against Ukraine. They are fleeing the country and seeking asylum in the U.S. The dangerous journey across the Bearing Sea highlights the lengths to which some Russians are willing to take to dodge being called up to fight in Putin’s military. Two Russians… -
The UN partners with Google to filter ‘distorted’ climate change results
During a panel on disinformation at the World Economic Forum, the United Nations’ under-secretary-general for global communications spoke about the U.N. partnering with Google on climate change. In April, the U.N. announced it had teamed up with the tech giant to push “verified climate information.” Under-Secretary General Melissa Fleming said the move was a response…
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