The US passed a law in 2008 to investigate unsolved murders of civil rights acivists in the 1960s, but the effort has not produced one single indictment.

Global heating is changing Australian ecosystems: more plants, fewer fur seals.

US states with stricted gun control have lower rates of killings with guns.

The states with weak regulations have more than three times the gun killings per capita as states with strong gun control.

Sea-level rise is accelerating: scientists expect another foot by 2050, if we don't rapidly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

Republicans are undermining religious freedom for Americans by subcontracting state services to religious organizations that refuse to serve people who don't meet their religious characteristics.

This extends a long-standing practice in which state-supported hospitals that are owned by religious organizations refuse to cooperate with abortion.

All levels of government should take a strict stand: when state-funded and state-licenses services are not allowed to impose any religious criteria on who they serve or what services they provide.