Maryland-National Capital Park Police Officer Mark Miles filed the federal civil rights lawsuit, which alleges discrimination, harassment and retaliation.

"This event is completely unprecedented and upended our expectations about the Antarctic climate system," one expert said.

With precious few trees left to slow the wind in this once fertile corner of southern Madagascar, red sand is blowing everywhere: onto fields, villages and roads, and into the eyes of children waiting for food aid parcels.

The estimates from the International Organization for Migration suggests Ukraine is fast on course in just three weeks toward the levels of displacement from Syria’s devastating war, which has driven about 13 million people from their homes both in the country and abroad.

The snarled up 65km Russian convoy that was stuck for days outside Kyiv neatly illustrated Moscow’s misplaced belief that it could achieve a lightning-fast victory in Ukraine. Western military analysts say Russia’s leadership initially thought its “special military operation” would reach the capital and other big Ukrainian cities in days, forcing Volodymyr Zelensky’s government to capitulate and allow a puppet administration to be installed. “It’s clear that Russia was pursuing regime change in Ukraine,” said Michael Kofman, Russia studies director at CNA, a US think-tank. “Regime change operations are often derived of hubris and bad assumptions — and they usually go terribly wrong.”

Russian businessman Roman Abramovich transferred a company he controlled with tens of millions of dollars of investments to a director of English soccer club Chelsea on the day Russia invaded Ukraine, UK corporate filings showed.

Josh Hawley made a Twitter thread about Ketanji Brown Jackson being lax on child porn convictions. It's red meat to the QAnon crowd.

Three asset managers now collectively own a big chunk of nearly every corporation. As a result, capitalism no longer works as advertised.

A highway is speeding the destruction of the Amazon. Along this stretch, the killings have already begun.

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Michael Shellenberger applies conservative culture war clichés to the housing problem.

A pair of Ohio men with ties to the extremist militant movement traveled to Ukraine to fight until “the job was finished.” It’s not going so well.

HONG KONG (AP) — As a COVID-19 outbreak overwhelms Hong Kong, it’s hard for its 7.4 million residents to know what’s next. Uncertainty is the only certainty as store shelves are stripped of goods, mainland Chinese companies throw up sprawling isolation and testing centers and the government sends mixed messages on whether it will lock down the population for a citywide mass testing.

Would-be treasure hunters flock to an uninhabitable town at the top of the world – but the lure of riches comes with a heavy price tag You smell La Rinconada before you see it. The final approach to this gold mining town is along a road bordered on both sides by decades of accumulated waste and rubbish. Only a colony of vultures and seagulls are unfazed by the stench. The town – perched 5,285 metres above sea level in the freezing air of the Peruvian Andes – is like no other. It is a teeming, medieval nightmare, with little infrastructure. There is no plumbing or running water so residents empty chamber pots directly onto the streets and melt snow to drink. The extreme altitude leaves its mark on the town’s residents in the form of discolouration of the lips and fingertips – a response to the body producing a large amount of red blood cells to compensate for a lack of oxygen. At night, La Rinconada descends into a lawless chaos – criminality and violence are rife and the miners have little to spend their money on except drink and sex.

Tiny cells, lacking medical treatment and sweltering conditions cited by judge who blocked extradition. Late last year, a Scottish court quietly refused what seemed like a routine extradition. It wasn’t that of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose drawn-out efforts to avoid the American prison system have grabbed international headlines for years. Instead, it was that of a relatively unknown Scottish man, Daniel Magee, who’d allegedly shot a security guard in Austin, Texas, in 2016 before fleeing to his native country. The refusal to send a prisoner back is not unprecedented — but what has raised eyebrows in the legal community is the reason: An Edinburgh judge decided that poor conditions in Texas prisons might constitute an international human rights violation. “This is the first case I know of where this specific argument about prison conditions has succeeded — normally, the courts are very sympathetic to deporting people,” said University of Nottingham criminologist Dirk van Zyl Smit. “It is a vote of no confidence in a country if you won’t send someone back.”

A 25-year-old from Kiev is saying the same thing as other asylum seekers and advocates: Border officials continue to deny asylum to people of color.

A Thursday Federalist Society event featuring the general counsel of a hate group sparked protest at the Law School.

What Adrian Lyne’s first film in two decades tells us about the future of a quintessential ’80s genre

A New York Police Department officer who gained national attention in 2019 after buying groceries for a hungry shoplifter filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the NYPD, claiming he was harassed by a superior officer over the incident. Louis Sojo, who is Hispanic, filed a federal complaint accusing Capt. Julio Delgado of "repeated insults and race disparaging remarks" while overseeing the Strategic Response Group. The lawsuit, which was also filed at the state level in August with the Supreme Court of New York, names the city of New York, the NYPD and Delgado as defendants and cites violations of federal and state civil rights laws preventing racial discrimination and hostile environments in the workplace.

Amid a bombastic proposal from a Russian lawmaker, Fort Ross, a former Russian settlement, has become more grist in the renewed standoff between two superpowers as Vladimir Putin conducts an increasingly brutal war on Ukraine.