Roughly half the jobs in the US require urine tests to detect use of marijuana. This policy never made any sense, and it is even more absurd in states which have legalized marijuana.

Google is shifting Android to use OpenJDK rather than its own Java implementation which used a reimplementation of Java based on the proprietary header files of the proprietary Java implementation.

This concrete result is good for the free software community, but the idea that a compatible implementation of an interface spec might infringe the copyright on header files is very very dangerous. Fortunately, the appeals court that made this decision hears copyright cases only in very rare circumstances.

The FSF urged the Supreme Court not to consider the appeal because we feared it might sustain the appeal court's ruling, which would extend this bad decision to the whole US.

About 1/3 of the casualties of Putin's air attacks in Syria are civilians , according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Hunger Threatens Millions as El Niño Causes Drought And Floods.

El Niño events have occurred for a long time, but this one comes on top of the effects of 1C of global heating.

California seals are starving because sardines have had to head for colder water.

The question is not, "How likely are we to limit global heating to 1.5C," but rather, " How much damage will it cause if we don't?"