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PORTLAND, OR, Oct. 14, 2016 – The Center for Biological Diversity today added $10,000 to the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for shooting and killing an endangered wolf earlier this month in south-central Oregon. The wolf — a female known as OR-28, who recently had a pup — […]

NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2016 – In an unprecedented step, the Committee to Protect Journalists today released a statement recognizing that a Donald Trump presidency would represent a threat to press freedom. In response to Trump’s threats and vilification of the media during his campaign, the chairman of CPJ’s board, Sandra Mims Rowe, issued the […]

PRINCETON, NJ, Oct. 14, 2016 – The choice of young people to forgo health insurance combined with the high cost of providing care for the sickest Americans are together generating big losses for insurers participating in the Affordable Care Act’s state insurance marketplaces. Aetna, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, announced in August […]

BOSTON, MA, Oct. 13, 2016 – More than 650,000 kindergarten through twelfth grade children in nine states attend school within one mile of a fracked oil or gas well, putting them at increased risk of health impacts from dangerous chemicals and air pollution. The finding comes from a new study by Environment America Research & […]

October 13, 2016 – First Lady Michelle Obama is live in New Hampshire talking about what’s at stake in this election.

David Titley, Pennsylvania State University October 13, 2016 – Many mini-dramas develop during major disasters like Hurricane Matthew, which has left a trail of devastation in the Caribbean and the southeastern United States. One such drama occurred outside of the storm zone: Conservative news blogger Matt Drudge accused the federal government last week of hyping […]

October 13, 2016 – The upper house of the New South Wales state parliament in Australia is condemning Donald Trump‘s run for president of the United States calling him a “revolting slug” unfit for public office. On Thursday, Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham introduced a motion slamming Trump’s hateful comments about women and minorities, including the […]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2016 – The massive enforcement of laws criminalizing personal drug use and possession in the United States causes devastating harm, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a joint report released today. Enforcement ruins individual and family lives, discriminates against people of color, and undermines public health. […]

October 12, 2016 – A federal judge in Tallahassee today extended Florida’s voter registration deadline to October 18 after voting advocacy groups filed a lawsuit arguing more than 100,000 voters could be disenfranchised because of disruptions caused by Hurricane Matthew. The League of Women Voters of Florida, along with counsel from the Brennan Center for […]

EAST LANSING, MI, Oct. 11, 2016 – New research finds that men purposely are breaking their own condoms and pressuring female partners in their teens and 20s to go without birth control in order to get them pregnant. The study, led by a Michigan State University scholar and published online in the journal Contraception, provides […]

MISSOULA, MT, Oct. 10, 2016 – A federal court approved a groundbreaking settlement agreement between WildEarth Guardians and the federal wildlife killing program, Wildlife Services, late last week. The settlement comes over a year after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that WildEarth Guardians’ interests are injured by the program’s activities and the organization […]

Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr., Washington University in St Louis; Peter Kastor, Washington University in St Louis, and Rebecca Wanzo, Washington University in St Louis October 10, 2016 – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took the debate stage Sunday evening. We asked three scholars from the Washington University in St. Louis, where the debate was held, […]

Editor’s note: This story contains graphic language that many may find offensive. A decade before Donald Trump became the Republican nominee for president, he shared candid and lewd views on women that were caught on tape. “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I […]

Oct. 7, 2016 – Cheap shale gas produced by fracking has driven the decline in coal production in the United States during the last decade, researchers at the Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve University have found. Power plants, which use 93 percent of the coal produced nationally, have been operating under the […]

GENEVA (7 October 2016) – Reports that Yahoo complied with US intelligence demands by searching the e-mails of hundreds of millions of customers raise serious human rights concerns, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, said today. According to reports, Yahoo customized software to scan all […]

Oct. 5, 2016 – Following last night’s Vice Presidential debate, Hillary for America is releasing a new video spotlighting Mike Pence’s inability (or unwillingness) to defend Donald Trump’s divisive insults and dangerous policies. From Trump’s praise of Vladimir Putin as a “strong” leader to his assertion that women should be “punished” for having an abortion […]

October 4, 2016 – Reuters reported today that Yahoo complied with a government directive last year to scan all of its incoming customers’ e-mails for certain content. Previously, companies were known to turn over e-mails from particular accounts, but this broad a search of content by a company has never previously been reported. Ironically, the […]

Oct. 3, 2016 – Donald Trump’s real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that U.S. authorities have linked to terrorist groups and Iran’s nuclear program. Trump inherited Bank Melli, one of Iran’s largest state-controlled banks, as a tenant when he purchased the General Motors Building on […]