Biden faces the issue of what to do with Guantanamo prisoner al-Qahtani, who confessed to a terrorist plot under torture and cannot therefore have a fair trial.

In my view, this case is simple. Imprisonment without trial is an injustice. Torture is a vicious evil.

It is more important, morally, for the US to accept the guilt for its own crimes and take the moral and legal consequences, than to do punish al-Qahtani any further.

*‘Mega-drought’ leaves many Andes mountains without snow cover.*

As the anthropogenic drought deepens, subsistence farmers may be unable to subsist.

The Russian news site Open Media published the list of web sites labeled as "extremist activity", and was blocked, apparently in response to that.

Russia isn't the first country to censor journalism about state censorship policy. Sweden did this many years ago.

California has made new emergency water use regulations to keep enough water flowing in the Sacramento River.

Some farms may lose their crops due to this drought. But then, farming in California has been operating on borrowed water for decades, borrowed from aquifers that could take millennia to refill. Farmers even planted water-thirsty almond trees there.

The mayor of Miami Beach called governor DeSantis the "Pied Piper of Covid-19, leading everybody off a cliff."

DeSantis can be described as a metaspreader: instead of spreading the disease directly from his own breath, he has pressured thousands of Floridians to do it for him.