Netanyahu yielded and agreed to give the Palestinian Authority its customs revenue.

Cleaning up plastic bead pollution in California. These beads can kill animals by starving them.

The UK suddenly imposed a gag order on all government employees including scientists.

Canada's right-wing government did the same thing, and we know the reason: to help business suppress science.

The Tories are considering big cuts in welfare for the poor. For right-wingers, welfare is supposed to be for the rich.

One proposal is to cut off support for children after the second. Governments should aim to decrease the birth rate, but making extra children grow up in poverty is not a good method. It probably won't even reduce the birth rate much.

In California, illegal marijuana plantations are using up the water that water bottlers don't take. Endangered fish could be killed by this.

If marijuana were legalized, it would be grown in ways that are not so illegal.