The senators behind the bipartisan infrastructure "compromise" call themselves the "problem solvers".

In a sense they are, but the basis of their compromise is to refuse to do anything to solve the problem of global heating and coming climate disaster.

*Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs.*

This is largely due to the amount of fires that burn there every year.

The European Court of Justice ruled that employers can enforce a policy that employees may not wear religious or political symbols at work, provide it applies in a neutral way to all such symbols.

I think it is legitimate for a business or agency to apply that policy, so as to present a neutral stand to customers.

Newark, New Jersey, is replacing the lead pipes that connect many houses to water supply.

Boston is doing this, too.

Ethiopia has banned a news site for supposedly supporting the TPLF.

I suspect that this really means failing to uphold the government line.