Reform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray

Chemicals known to affect brains of common garden birds, and to kill unborn chicks, found in most feather samples

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Heartless cruelty, profit over compassion

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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Jared Wise, who was tapped by the Trump administration to serve as an investigator in the Justice Department, can be heard urging a mob to “kill” police officers in a newly unearthed video recording during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in Washington, D.C.“You guys are disgusting, you are the Nazi, you are...

Gil Duran and Heather Cox Richardson discuss Curtis Yarvin, whose Dark Enlightenment ideas inspired tech's NeoReactionary movement and JD Vance

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Republican Plan Adds to the Deficit, Will Trigger Automatic Cuts Under Federal Law

The Homeland Security secretary's word salad raised even more questions about the administration's assault on fundamental rights.

Republicans continue to make progress on President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security, though considerable divisions remain as Speaker Mike Johnson atte...

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