Texas thugs have been arrested and charged with negligent homicide for squeezing a prisoner by the neck and then pepper-spraying him. He died shortly thereafter.

Trump wants to torture suspected terrorists for sheer sadism.

Neonicotinoid pesticides are associated with decline of butterfly numbers.

Turkish planes shot down a Russian fighter plane near the Turkey-Syria border.

Turkey and Russia have been enemies for centuries. They are also at odds in regard to Syria. Erdoğan quietly supports and protects PISSI, while Putin supports Assad and may now actually want to fight PISSI due to the bombed airliner. To have Russian planes operating near the Turkish border is going to be a danger spot.

Russian troops are fighting a Turkic minority in Northern Syria.

The denialists who claimed they had found a "hiatus" in global heating applied criteria that were rather loose.