Justice Jackson takes oath to begin tenure as the first Black woman on the US Supreme Court. US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to start her lifetime appointment as the first Black woman to serve on the country’s top court. Jackson took the oath of office to replace retiring Justice … Read more
In a blow to the fight against climate change, the US Supreme Court has limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. By a six-to-three decision on Thursday, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that the Clean Air Act does not … Read more
The Longview Power Plant, a coal-fired plant, stands on August 21, 2018 in Maidsville, West Virginia. The plant’s single unit generates 700 net megawatts of electricity from run-of-mine coal and natural gas. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to set standards on climate-changing greenhouse gas … Read more
The prayer meetings were “cult-like”, the employees have claimed in their lawsuit. (Representative Photo) Two former employees of a company in the United States have filed a federal lawsuit claiming they were fired for not taking part in daily prayer meetings, NBC News said in a report. John McGaha and Mackenzie Saunders called the “cult-like” … Read more
Multinational consumer goods company Unilever has sold its Ben & Jerry’s ice cream business in Israel to its local licensee for an undisclosed sum, after the United States brand announced last year that it would stop marketing products in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, saying it was “ inconsistent” with its values. Under the new arrangement, announced … Read more
President Road Rage. Beyond being a gangster and, of course, a preening fascist – I mean, is there any other kind? (see Benito Mussolini, et al) – that’s how Donald J Trump will be remembered. I’m not trying to be pithy or cute. There is nothing pithy or cute about gangster fascists. Nothing at all. … Read more
A photo illustration showing the North Korean flag and a computer hacker. Budrul Chukrut | Soup Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images North Korean state-sponsored hackers were likely the perpetrators of a hack that led to theft of around $100 million in cryptocurrency, according to analysis from blockchain researchers. The hackers targeted Horizon, the so-called … Read more
NATO has listed China as one of its strategic priorities for the first time, saying Beijing’s ambitions and its “coercive policies” challenge the Western bloc’s “interests, security and values”. The alliance’s new blueprint, or Strategic Concept (PDF), that lays out its priorities for the next decade, was approved at a leader’s summit in Spain on … Read more
For all the gloom, some analysts say that the bottom may be near. by Joanna OssingerBloomberg Published On 30 Jun 202230 Jun 2022 Bitcoin is on track for its worst quarter in more than a decade, the more hawkish central banks and a string of high-profile crypto blowups hammer sentiment. The 56% drawdown in the … Read more
Sumayyah Waheed describes her current mindset as one of “grim determination”. That is a change from the sense of devastation that Waheed, senior policy counsel at US civil rights group Muslim Advocates, says she felt when the United States Supreme Court last week ended the constitutionally-protected right to abortion in the country. “This ruling empowers … Read more