A wide variety of Republican accusations of voter fraud have been checked and found false.

Republicans do not check these accusations before publishing them because they figure that a false accusation is almost as effective as a true one.

Starmer has decided to reject Corbyn as a Labour MP, although he has been approved as a citizen member of the Labour Party.

In effect, Starmer has chosen a continuing fight with Corbyn and his supporters.

98% of the coral in Florida's reefs is dead. Global heating and ocean acidification are largely responsible.

A certain level of CO2 in the air will make the oceans so acidic that coral will simply die. Nothing can save them in those circumstances. Many other organisms with shells will die, too.

*Covid has exposed the damage caused to families by a decade of austerity.*

This is about the UK, but the US has faced somewhat similar increasing hardship for the non-affluent, and there may be a lot of similarity.

Spain is giving legal protection to a lagoon, the Mar Menor, and allowing people to sue polluters on its behalf.

This seems to be a very good plan, but the article persistently says that the lagoon is now a "person."

I don't think that is what the law says. When the article describes the matter carefully, no such "person" is involved. That's good, because a lagoon is not a person.

The idea that to have any legal existence requires being a "person" is not only absurd, it has done terribly harm. Consider, for instance, the Corporations United decision in the United States, in which the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are entitled to human rights. For humanity's survival and freedom we must take away the rights of fictitious "persons" — but the Mar Menor should remain protected.