The EPA is proposing stricter standards for soot pollution, which harms people's health. However, its proposal is not as strong as what the EPA's scientist advisors say is needed.

Hong Kong exiles in Taiwan think about how their old home has been changed into something they cannot return to — about the danger that China could do the same thing to Taiwan next.

Australia has brought home some Australians supporters of PISSI who were in prison camps in Syria. Now one of them is facing charges of going to Syria to support PISSI.

I think it was right to bring them home, and right to prosecute those who supported PISSI. Other countries should do likewise. Exile should not be used as a punishment for a crime, and imposing any punishment for any alleged crime without a trial is even worse.

However, the actual charge is "Travelling to Raqqa." That action is being used as a proxy for the act of going to support PISSI. The prosecution of an action which is only a proxy for the real accusation seems wrong to me.

Republicans have eliminated the security checks for entering the House of Representatives' chamber, where the representatives meet and vote. They demand to be allowed to bring in guns, and want Democrats to trust them not to shoot anyone.

Some of them have hinted at murdering Democratic representatives in Congress, and all of them practice frequent shameless lying. I wouldn't trust them not to plan to kill me.

100 famous writers stated their solidarity with jailed British climate protesters.