Sir, – Amid the disconcerting developments in European environmental
A brave group of 2,000 women proved — collectively — that the right to a healthy environment had been violated by Switzerland’s failure to take effective action to restrain global warming, Sian Sutherland writes.
The High Court of Dominica has overturned a colonial-era law banning same-sex relations between consenting adults after a gay man filed a lawsuit claiming the ban was unconstitutional. The complainant, […]
A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia's and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory. The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in the case involving coverage of gender-affirming care by North Carolina’s state employee health plan and the coverage of gender-affirming surgery by West Virginia Medicaid. Both states appealed separate lower court rulings that found the denial...
"If I have to put a disclaimer on satire, it defeats the whole purpose and goes to the heart of my right under 19(1)(a) and 19(1)(g)," Kamra’s lawyer Navroz Seervai argued in response to govt's proposal to add a "disclaimer" to satirical content.
One person is dead, and another in custody in an early Friday morning shooting. Neighbors to the 3100 block of Turner St. in the city said they're not surprised of the nearby homicide and added that they're used to hearing and seeing vehicles in the area nearly once or twice a week.
See climate’s impact on algae to zoos in Carolina Digital Repository’s curation of open access articles.
Over several decades, the public has been deceived into voting for water bonds that have little new water in them—phony promises to build new water storage and aqueducts. About 12 percent of bond funds are spent on new water storage. The rest of the bond funds have been squandered on scores of local and special-interest environmental projects, e.g., tearing down four Klamath-area dams—killing fish to save them—and opposing substantial new water projects, e.g., raising Shasta Dam and building...
KNBR’S “21st AMENDMENT” ContestOfficial Rules A complete copy of these rules can be obtained by contacting radio station KNBR (“Station”),750 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA, 94111, during available business hours Monday through Friday, on the Station website www.knbr.com, or by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the above address. The Station will conduct the KNBR’S […]
Valladolid City Council has announced an update to its waste management and street cleanliness guidelines that directly impact pet owners. Recently, the city of Valladolid adopted a new ordinance governing the selective collection of domestic waste and street hygiene. According to Onda Cero, Alberto Cuadrado, the Councillor for Public Health and Citizen Safety, emphasised the […]
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story HHS’s final rule on protecting abortion records The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its final draft of a post-Dobbs rule protecting patient records from being used to potentially prosecute patients who receive reproductive health services
For Earth Day last year, executive producers Barack and Michelle Obama