Powerful rifles that can fire very fast, and penetrate bulletproof vests, are sold to civilians in the US. Smuggled into Mexico, they enable drug gangs to outshoot most cops.

Turkey planned for zero forest fires this year, and failed to carry out the insufficient preparations and purchases it had budgeted for.

Here's some information on political obstacles to humanitarian aid in and near Tigray.

Some chemicals in sunscreen kill coral (and various other animals found in reefs) even in minuscule amounts such as 60 parts per trillion. However, if we want to save coral reefs, the main thing we must do is curb global heating, and specifically the emission of CO2, which makes the ocean more acid and will eventually kill all coral.

*Fears over lax US standards prompts bill on chemical safety of beauty products.*

*The problem isn't "inflation." It’s that most Americans aren’t paid enough.*

This reflects the political power of the rich, who use their influence to set up systems to concentrate wealth. Concentrating wealth works by directing more of the total income to rich people and companies (whose shares are mainly owned by rich people), and that means less of the total income to the non-rich.