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Thursday, October 17, 2024
Report calls for child labor protections as Project 2025 seeks to limit regulations
Injury rates among workers under the age of 18 nearly doubled from 2011 to 2020. All child labor violations almost increased by four times between 2015 and 2022, and hazard occupation violations more than doubled during the same time period…
Project 2025, a conservative guide for a second Trump administration, which aligns closely with Donald Trump's policies and was authored and promoted by numerous former Trump officials and allies, advocates for rolling back child labor protections, the report cites…
Mass bird deaths in botulism outbreak are linked to climate crisis
More than 94,000 birds have died at Tule Lake wildlife refuge in northern California, its worst recorded epidemic…
How Trump’s tariffs could affect U.S. economy and trade - The Washington Post
If implemented, the former president's tariff plans would lead to higher costs, stock market volatility and feuds with the rest of the world...
Trump Super-PAC Sent Out Bogus Medicare Cancellation Notice to Scare Voters About Kamala Harris – Mother Jones
"Political campaigns can be sleazy affairs. But there is something particularly odious about billionaires attempting to frighten Medicare recipients with phony messaging in order to persuade them to vote for a guy who has proposed Medicare cuts and who will shower the wealthy with large tax breaks. But to them, this must seem a solid investment…"
Water Crises Threaten the World’s Food Supply, Studies Show - The New York Times
High food prices, meet the global water crisis.
The world's food supply is under threat because so much of what we eat is concentrated in so few countries, and many of those countries are increasingly facing a water shortage. That's the conclusion of three independent studies published this week…
Republicans challenge legitimacy of overseas votes, including military - The Washington Post
A Pennsylvania suit opens a new front in GOP efforts to raise questions about the validity of mail-in ballots, targeting a group once seen as off-limits...
Justice Dept. to monitor voting in Ohio county over intimidation concerns - The Washington Post
The move comes after the county sheriff urged the public to report addresses displaying signs supporting Kamala Harris...
How Two Billionaire Preachers Remade Texas Politics - The New York Times
Like the Koch brothers, the Mercer family and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. "It's hard to think of other megafunders in the country as big on the theocratic end of the spectrum," says Peter Montgomery, who oversees the Right Wing Watch project at People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy group...
‘Malicious’ texts sent to Wisconsin youths to discourage them from voting | US elections 2024 | The Guardian
Justice department urged to investigate messages amid Republican attempt to clamp down on student voting…
Man arrested for threatening FEMA workers speaks out - The Washington Post
Parsons said he was motivated by social media reports claiming that FEMA was withholding supplies from hurricane victims in western North Carolina. Such false claims are part of a wave of misinformation that has hampered hurricane recovery efforts across the Southeast.
"I viewed it as if our people are sitting here on American soil, and they're refusing to aid our people," Parsons told FOX8...
New report warns of rise in pregnancy criminalization in Post-Roe America
In fact, most prosecutions documented in the report did not actually involve abortion: Of the 200 cases, only one was prosecuted under a law specifically meant to criminalize abortion. The others involved statutes related to child abuse, neglect or endangerment, which treat an embryo or fetus as a person with legal rights that compete with those of the pregnant person. The report notes that prosecutors often don't need to prove that any actual harm occurred to the fetus, they merely have to demonstrate that a pregnant woman posed some "risk" to her pregnancy.
That includes the case of Amari Marsh, a 23-year-old South Carolina woman who miscarried in June 2023. After miscarrying, she was arrested and charged with "murder/homicide by child abuse." Marsh spent 22 days in jail before being placed under house arrest. She faced 20 years in prison. It was more than a year later that she was finally cleared by a grand jury and told that her case would not proceed to trial.
And that is what happens when you criminalize abortion: You criminalize pregnant women. When the state has a controlling stake in every pregnant woman's body, every miscarriage is a potential prosecution. …
This 3,775-year-old log may hold the secret to slowing climate change - The Washington Post
Under the right conditions, tons of wood could be buried underground in wood vaults, locking in a portion of human-generated CO2 for potentially thousands of years. While other carbon-capture technologies rely on expensive and energy-intensive machines to extract CO2, the tools for putting wood underground are simple: a tractor and a backhoe...
Special counsel Jack Smith: Trump can still face Jan. 6 obstruction count - The Washington Post
Special counsel Jack Smith said in a new filing that a Supreme Court ruling tossing an obstruction count against some Jan. 6 defendants does not help Trump...
Elon Musk gave $75m to his pro-Trump group in three months
Filings submitted by America Pac on Tuesday to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) showed Musk donated $15m (£12m) in July, $30m in August and another $30m in September. Musk remains the political action committee's only donor...
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