The Yaque River basin restoration project has reduced soil degradation by 18%, although gentrification and climate change remain threats

"I wanna live like common people I wanna do whatever common people do..."

A large Korean church is hosting a meeting by violent fascists to pass an anti-trans initiative this election.

Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are visiting the southern border Thursday in a dramatic split-screen moment as the 2024 presidential campaign ramps up over an issue that has confounded administrations of both parties for decades: immigration. It’s Biden’s second trip to the border since he took office. His first was to El Paso in January 2023. This time, he’s set to visit Brownsville, a border town in the Rio Grande Valley that has long felt the impacts of migration up close. “He wanted to show that it was important for him to go down there, to hear from Border Patrol agents, to hear from first responders,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing Wednesday. Biden will also deliver remarks to urge congressional Republicans to pass more border security funding, a White House official said.

In the days since Alabama's Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered "extrauterine children," the involvement of that court's chief justice with a once-fringe Christian Nationalist movement has come under renewed scrutiny. Tom Parker, a Republican who joined the court in 2005, wrote a concurring opinion that quoted at length from sources such as the Book of Genesis, the Ten Commandments and Christian thinkers of centuries ago, such as Thomas Aquinas. But comments he has made in other media have raised questions about his seeming espousal of "Seven Mountains" theology, a concept that some experts consider to be Christian extremism.

A student remains “scarred and disfigured” since her sophomore year of high school, when her teacher told students she brought a “surprise” into chemistry class, according to a lawsuit filed by her family. The teacher revealed she had two swords, including a “katana-style sword,” in the science classroom at Volcano Vista High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 2, 2022, the lawsuit says. Then, she instructed the students to fight each other with the weapons, in pairs, according to a complaint filed Feb. 23... After the teen recorded her two male classmates sword fighting, the teacher selected her to fight another student, the complaint says. During the fight, the other student “struck (the teen) across her right forearm, wrist, and hand with the katana-style sword, according to the complaint. The impact of the blade deeply cut the 16-year-old’s right hand and wrist, and she began “bleeding heavily,” the complaint says. “I’m in trouble,” the teacher exclaimed in response, according to the complaint.

Management has questioned staffers, including Daily producers, after The Intercept revealed internal debate over a yet-to-air episode on Hamas weaponizing sexual violence. Such a probe is highly unusual, say staffers, one of whom dubbed it a “witch hunt.”

The name of “Pro-White man” Darrell Leon McClanahan III sits atop Missouri's gubernatorial ballot

Nearly 30 years after the company was founded, we still don’t really know where its profits come from. The answer will loom large in the antitrust case against it. If you read the recently unsealed materials from the federal antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, you’ll see why the company wanted to keep them under wraps. According to the unredacted notes from one meeting, Jeff Bezos directed his team to stuff more ads into search results, even if it meant accepting more ads internally categorized as irrelevant to what users were looking for. Other quoted documents reveal the company working to conceal a mysterious price-hiking algorithm, in part because “of increased media focus.” Similarly unflattering nuggets abound. But here’s something you won’t find in those materials, because it was deemed too sensitive to unredact: precisely how Amazon makes its money. Nearly 30 years after the company was founded, we still don’t really know. Amazon has long cultivated the impression that it operates its shopping platform at razor-thin margins, relying instead on its cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), for much of its profit. And yet the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit contends that Amazon’s e-commerce business is, in fact, “enormously profitable.” The resolution to this dispute is likely to figure heavily in whether the judge finds that Amazon is merely a benevolent retail giant or a destructive monopoly. And regardless of what happens in the Amazon case, the fact that large corporations have been able to keep such basic information private helps explain why policy makers, journalists, and the public were so slow to recognize the growing problem of monopolization in America.

The world isn’t on track to meet its climate goals — and it’s the public’s fault, a leading oil company CEO told journalists.

The families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre voted to liquidate Alex Jones' assets in order to collect on a $1.5 billion defamation award.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community rallied alongside strippers at the Washington state Capitol earlier this week in support of a bill that would improve working conditions in strip clubs. Senate Bill 6105 would also do away with the statewide lewd conduct regulation that was cited in last month’s controversial raids on several Seattle gay bars. The bill, known as the “Strippers’ Bill of Rights,” would limit the fees strip clubs can charge dancers, ban local ordinances that mandate the distance between dancers and customers, and require clubs to provide security staffing as well as training for dancers in de-escalating conflicts with customers and preventing sex trafficking.

The controversial bill imposes prison sentences of up to three years for LGBTQ+ people, and up to five years for forming or funding pro LGBTQ+ groups.

"Screams Without Words," the New York Times story about sexual violence by Jeffrey Gettleman, Adam Sella, and Anat Schwartz comes under fire.

After 22 years on death row and two previous execution dates, Ivan Cantu maintained his innocence as he was put to death Wednesday evening by the state of Texas. The 50-year-old was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville after a flurry of last-minute appeals in the past week were struck down. His attorney, Gena Bunn, said she did not submit a final appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court because she “couldn’t find a viable path” in which the case could be reviewed. Cantu was convicted by a Collin County jury in 2001 for the murders of his cousin, James Mosqueda, and Mosqueda’s girlfriend, Amy Kitchen, who were found shot to death in Far North Dallas on Nov. 4, 2000.

HB 500 is an assault on longstanding basic rights and dignities on the job that will harm practically all Kentucky workers.

The owners of Vice and Sports Illustrated seem to only see value the sites' names, even when their actions make those names worthless.

Donald Trump’s federal trial for seeking to subvert the 2020 election is likely to remain on hold for several more months while the Supreme Court takes up his argument that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while president. In a one-page order Wednesday, the court set an expedited schedule to hear the immunity issue, with oral arguments to be set during the week of April 22. In the meantime, proceedings in the trial court will remain frozen. There was no noted dissent or other explanation of the high court’s action. If the court rules on the matter quickly after the arguments and rejects Trump’s immunity claim, it may permit a trial on the election-related charges to occur later this summer or fall.

“I don’t know how else you can put sprinkles on shit, but we were trying to be the sprinkles on shit.”

They're not a majority, based on a new look at education data, but they are wildly overrepresented. The New York Times is the most prominent news organization in the United States — and, by general consensus, the pinnacle of the journalism career ladder. Sure, star reporters sometimes leave the Times for a rival — but more often, it’s the Times that’s busy snapping up other outlets’ talent. Fifteen years ago, it employed about 1% of all American newspaper employees, a number that had held steady for decades; today, that number is approaching 7%. Its remarkable financial success has made it one of the very few news organizations where the next few years can be viewed with more optimism than dread.