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As US slashes at research, French university opens arms to scientists seeking...
MARSEILLE, France (CN) — Aix-Marseille University has a long tradition of bringing artists and researchers in precarious situations — people struggling to conduct their work in war zones or while...
View ArticleThis ‘Dune’ isn’t fiction. It’s the longest conveyor belt in the US and...
KERMIT, Texas (AP) — It’s longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph – too slow for a truck and too long for a train. It’s a new...
View ArticleJudge refuses to toss out sexual harassment suit against former Fox News host...
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal judge on Wednesday cleared Fox News from liability in a 2020 sexual harassment suit filed by a former Fox employee but ordered former “America’s Newsroom” co-host Ed Henry...
View ArticleEPA head says he’ll roll back dozens of environmental regulations, including...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In what he called the “most consequential day of deregulation in American history,” the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a series of actions Wednesday to roll...
View ArticleFishermen accuse Bumble Bee Foods of forced labor, violence in tuna supply chain
SAN DIEGO (CN) — Canned seafood giant Bumble Bee knowingly sources its tuna from fleets that use physical violence and negligence to entrap workers and force them to fish in inhumane and horrific...
View ArticleArgentine retirees and soccer fans clash with police during protests against...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine retirees and fans of several soccer teams clashed with police Wednesday during a protest in front of Congress in the capital, Buenos Aires, against the...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit revives Chicago law professor’s free speech retaliation claim...
CHICAGO (CN) — A three-judge Seventh Circuit appellate panel partially sided with a University of Illinois Chicago law professor on Wednesday, reversing a lower court’s dismissal of his First...
View ArticleNorth Carolina governor focuses on bipartisanship, hurricane recovery in...
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — North Carolina Governor Josh Stein spoke to a joint session of the North Carolina General Assembly Wednesday night, urging lawmakers to focus on bipartisan goals. Lawmakers from...
View ArticleMegachurch pastor indicted on child sex crimes
OKLAHOMA CITY — A Texas megachurch founder has been indicted on child sexual abuses charges stemming from incidents that date back to the 1980s. The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office accuses...
View ArticleAdvocacy groups push for contempt judgment against Oregon for mental health...
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — Advocacy groups asked a federal judge to hold Oregon’s state health agency and psychiatric hospital accountable for not meeting the needs of criminal defendants who require...
View ArticleUK balances safety, free speech in tackling digital regulation
MANCHESTER, England (CN) — While transatlantic differences over how to protect people online become starker, Britain’s online regulator is gaining new powers over internet services, including social...
View ArticleLondon judge to rule on whether mining company is liable in Brazil’s worst...
LONDON (AP) — A lawyer argued Thursday that global mining giant BHP Group should be held liable for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster 10 years ago when a dam collapse poured tons of toxic mining...
View ArticleFEMA sued over hold on funds for upgrading nation’s emergency alert system
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government’s steward of funding for public broadcasting stations sued the Trump administration on Thursday over its pause in grant payments for upgrading the nation’s...
View ArticleThe Scopes monkey trial took place 100 years ago, but the fight isn’t over
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more. In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit tosses injunction on Indiana utility regulators
CHICAGO (CN) — A Seventh Circuit panel on Thursday lifted a federal judge’s preliminary injunction against the commissioners and chair of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. The majority of the...
View ArticleUN: Sudan war is world’s worst humanitarian crisis: 30 million need aid, 16...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The war in Sudan has created the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis with over 30 million people needing aid this year, 16 million of them children trying to...
View ArticleMan describes cruelty during his two decades of captivity at his family home...
(AP) — A man rescued from a burning home in Connecticut told a shocking story of cruelty and constant hunger as he was held captive in a single room for 20 years by his father and stepmother,...
View ArticleFormer Activision Blizzard CEO sues over news articles accusing him of...
(CN) — Former CEO of video game company Activision Blizzard Robert Kotick says news company G/O Media defamed him in news publications that knowingly lied about nonexistent widespread workplace...
View ArticleBy the side of the road
When the pond froze over the animals dived to the bottom to snooze in the mud until spring came and the ice broke up. Then on sunny days in late April and May, with the ice gone, turtles would climb...
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