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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk stated Friday before the UN Human Rights Council that the ongoing war in Ukraine has become an escalating 'human rights catastrophe' amid a sharp surg...

Appeals court dismisses lawsuit from Jackson residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their rights

As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.

The three journalists allege Pentagon officials retaliated against them for defending the military newspaper’s editorial independence.

Two families have been trapped by settlers for days, casting a spotlight on the army’s struggle to curtail settler violence and protect Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.

The historic Hudson River sloop Clearwater was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Sail on Saturday morning after U.S. Coast Guard officials informed the vessel it had to leave the event's &hellip...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation (HB 1645) on Wednesday that will erase several instances of the words “climate change” from state statutes and restructure the state’s fossil fuel-based en...

According to Palestinian reports, a 23-year-old mother and her 1-year-old baby were killed in a strike on a camp housing displaced people in Khan Yunis. A second-grader was also killed in Deir al-Bala...

New solid-state batteries will be made from a new "highly durable" cathode material and will power a car for much longer than conventional EV batteries.

About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.

LGBTQ+ people continue to reel from stigma spread by 16 years of rightwing populist government, says organiser One year ago they marched in record numbers, risking fines and facial recognition technology to challenge Viktor Orbán and his government’s escalating crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights. On Saturday, Hungarians will again take to the streets for Budapest Pride, this time in a march marked by the country’s sweeping political changes. The event, which is expected to unfold peacefully after police gave it the green light, will be a rallying cry of a community that has resisted all efforts to silence it, said Petra Buzás, part of the organising team. Continue reading...

At every stage of childhood, the Trump administration is withdrawing a protection. It is also dismantling the tools that would measure the harm

The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of "An Inconvenient Truth."

Mona Khalil, who had refused to leave the beach she had spent years protecting, died from her injuries after the Israeli strike.

A federal judge ordered the ​Trump administration on ‌Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on ​topics like slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationw...

Un vaste réseau de capteurs marins est en train d’être démantelé par l’administration Trump, et d’autres programmes sont menacés. Il en résultera une perte de données essentielles pour comprendre le r...

Governor Spanberger signed an assault weapons ban. Some county prosecutors in pro-Trump areas say they won’t enforce it. Is a new MAGA nullification movement brewing?

The bill, which would prohibit new power-hungry facilities until late 2027, awaits Gov. Janet Mills’ signature or veto.

Nawaf Salam says Israel collectively punishing southern Lebanon and forcing people ‘into exile’ but defends security talks with Tel Aviv

A rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus is spreading rapidly through a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has never previously

This Medical News article discusses a large measles outbreak in the populous South Asian country and the global implications amid declines in vaccination.