Hundreds of detainees said they suffered lasting health issues when guards sprayed a toxic cleaning agent during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

After an apparent lab accident in Siberia, Moscow is reverting to its old Soviet ways.

The Trump administration’s executive privilege claims to withhold documents about the Kennedy Center likely won’t hold up in court, experts told Forbes.

It’s been a banner year for the annual campaign run by NBC and its parent company Universal to encourage shelter pet adoption nationwide, with 135,000 dogs, cats, and more taken home from shelters. Running from July to September, the associated fundraiser raked in $480,000 for the over 1,000 animal shelters participating in the adopt-a-thon. In […] The post 135,000 Shelter Pets Found Forever Homes in August Thanks to NBC’s Annual Adopt-a-thon appeared first on Good News Network.

A Brazilian ecosystem-scale restoration program was honored at a recent UN conference as one of the 3 most ambitious and impactful currently underway around the world. The immediate instinct might be to assume the project is taking place in the Amazon Rainforest, the largest in the world and famously threatened, but it isn’t. Rather, it […] The post Flagship Restoration Project in Brazil’s Cerrado Savannah Working to Restore 4.4 Million Acres appeared first on Good News Network.

A combination of e-bike rentals and segregated bike lanes has boosted cycling in the Scottish capital to the point that bikes outnumbered cars during a May morning rush hour for the first time in history. The data, analyzed by the Scottish cycling charity Cycling Scotland, identified other areas where bike traffic is growing, including multiple […] The post Bikes Outnumbered Cars on Scottish Rush Hour Route for the First Time Ever appeared first on Good News Network.

In Portugal, a 150-year-old business making corks is showing that it’s absolutely possible to teach an old dog new tricks. Having cultivated cork oak trees since the time of the monarchy, Corticeira Amorim have popped open the potential of this humble material, transforming it into a sustainable piece of sophisticated technology that can line the […] The post Portuguese Company Turns Cork Wood into Limitless Material, Even to Insulate Spacecraft appeared first on Good News Network.

On Monday, e-commerce giant Amazon announced a $20 million investment to conserve water in the Colorado River Basin that’s currently stressed by a mixture of demand and historic drought. In launching the Colorado River Basin Collaborative, (CRBC) and joining existing organizations the Water Resilience Coalition and The Climate Pledge, the firm hopes to help create […] The post Millions Channeled to Irrigation Improvements, Leak Repairs Along Colorado River by Corporate Coalition appeared first on Good News Network.

Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."

Also on the daily podcast: Tommy Robinson’s influence on American politics and a tribute to Bob Mackie

Chinese president’s proposals for lessening tensions come amid period of intense competition between the two countries over AI and trade * Trump-Xi summit – latest updates Xi Jingping has called for extensive cooperation with Washington to avoid the “Thucydides trap” that could put the US and China on a military collision course. At the start of his summit meeting with Donald Trump in the White House, the Chinese president laid out terms for a mutual understanding that he said could avoid military conflict between the two competing superpowers. Continue reading...

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Cuba faces an energy squeeze as Trump escalates sanctions and threatens tariffs on nations supplying the island with oil.

The last-minute freeze keeps old rules in place as legal challenge by university groups and labour unions makes its way through the courts.

Rep. Thomas Massie argued the defense secretary had violated three provisions of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 in the conflict with Iran.

A 40-year-old woman who lived in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, has died from measles complications, the county coroner confirmed Sunday. It’s the third measles-associated death in a fast-growing out...

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

Workers' share of US wealth has (once again) fallen to its lowest level ever recorded.

The Republican U.S. Senate nominee from Texas appears to have omitted rental income and multiple mortgages from his recent financial disclosures, making it difficult for voters to get the full picture...

The agency said on Friday that Tate and his brother coerced a victim by pretending to be in a loving relationship and then forcing her to produce pornographic material for an online webcam business.

The federal government appears poised to hold its first commercial auction for seabed-mining leases in federal waters off American Samoa.