Jay Faison’s Expensive, Maddening Quest to Save the Planet

Faison speaks at a panel put on by the Washington Post called "Party Platform: Energy and Environment," at Butcher and the Brewer outside the Republican National Convention. When Jay Faison, one of the Republican Party's most generous patrons, flew to Cleveland for its national convention in July, things weren't looking good for anyone concerned about the health of the planet.

Dakota pipeline protesters say they were detained in dog kennels; 268 …

A line of police move towards a roadblock and encampment of Native American and environmental protesters near an oil pipeline construction site, near the town of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. October 27, 2016 Tens of thousands of people have checked in on Facebook at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the past few days. They are expressing solidarity with protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota, which have faced an increasingly brutal backlash from police.

Backers of Paris Climate Pact Play Down Trump Threat as Election Looms

Backers of a global accord to fight climate change that formally comes into force on Friday say they are confident the deal can survive any legal challenges by U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump if he wins next week's presidential election. Trump has threatened to reject the accord negotiated by nearly 200 governments, including that of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Cuba’s U.S.-backed apartheid dictatorship arrests more than a…

On the first Sunday after being elected to a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, Cuba's apartheid dictatorship unleashed another wave of brutal repression against the island's peaceful dissidents. More than a dozen Ladies in White and other human rights and democracy activists were violently arrested yesterday as they attempted to carry out their weekly #TodosMarchamos protest march demanding the release of political prisoners.

US activist icon warns Trump paving way for fascism

Donald Trump's candidacy has revealed a deep racism in American society that can certainly be interpreted as the making of a fascist movement, an icon of the black civil rights struggle says. Angela Davis was one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives more than 40 years ago, and ran for vice president twice on Communist Party tickets.

For Clinton campaign chief, it was literally a day to erase from memory

Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta, second from right, pauses while speaking with senior aide Huma Abedin aboard Clinton's campaign plane while traveling to Miami on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. On Wednesday, hackers, using information they'd gleaned from an email published by WikiLeaks, took control of his Twitter account and on Thursday wiped his iPhone and iPad clean of data.

Review: Documentary “13th” on scourge of mass incarceration

"Selma" director Ava DuVernay's new documentary traces societal attitudes and laws from era of Jim Crow to today's "prison industrial complex." "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Is This Catholic College The Worst In The Country For Free Speech?

DePaul University in Chicago may be the "worst school for free speech in the country," according to an aggressive attack levied against it Monday by a campus civil liberties group. The accusations against DePaul come from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education , a leading advocate for free speech on campus.

The Latest: Elections chief questions ruling on voter purge

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Latest on a federal appeals court ruling on Ohio's process for removing voters from its registration rolls : Ohio's elections chief says a federal appeals court ruling effectively forces the swing state to place voters who have died or moved on its registration lists. Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted defended the state's process for maintaining its voter rolls on Friday after the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati found the procedure violates federal law.

Three years after his revelations, Snowden in spotlight again

When President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama were about to meet in the California desert resort of Sunnylands in June 2013, the US government had worked hard to paint China as a villain in cyberspace. The revelation made by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden just days before the shirt-sleeves meeting, however, shocked the world.

Tech leaders, activists call for Obama to pardon Snowden

Tech luminaries Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, have joined a new campaign pushing for a pardon of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. Other supporters of the PardonSnowden.org campaign, launched Wednesday, are Harvard law professor and tech policy author Lawrence Lessig; tech investor Esther Dyson; noted cryptographer and MIT professor Ron Rivest; and Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow.

The House Science Committee’s Anti-Science Rampage

If you know the answers you want in advance, you can always find them by cherry-picking your data. That's what climate-change deniers have tried to do in recent years in arguing that there's been a "pause" in the global-warming trend over the past two decades-suggesting, thereby, that global warming is just a temporary anomaly unrelated to human industrial activity.

Obama aide to meet with missing Laotian activist’s wife

A top aide of President Barack Obama said Tuesday he will meet with the wife of a missing Laotian activist, whose case has been repeatedly highlighted by human rights groups as an example of authoritarian excesses of Laos' one-party Communist government. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters he will meet with Shui Meng Ng on Thursday while Obama is visiting Laos.

French premier says recount of Gabon elections would be wise

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Journalist with Boston ties detained in Venezuela, relatives say

A prominent Venezuelan journalist with Boston ties has been arrested amid the antigovernment protests roiling the South American nation, his family and friends said Sunday. Braulio Jatar, director of the Venezuelan news website Reporte Confidencial, was detained early Saturday by Venezuelan police, who later raided his home in eastern Venezuela.