*A team of United Nations experts has arrived in the US on a tour that will focus on racial justice, law enforcement and policing.*

A protist species known as "philaster" was responsible for nearly eliminating a species of sea urchins on the US east coast and in the Caribbean.

Is there any chance this organism could be used safely to save California's kelp forests from the sea urchins that are wiping it out? That does not automatically follow — the sea urchins there might be immune to them, or they might destroy other species too. Research would be needed.

Robert Reich: the corrupter should be barred from running for office because of his involvement in attempted insurrection.

The article uses the word "treason" to describe this. In everyday informal terms, that word fits; but it is better to be precise in this context, because the Constitution gives a definition of "treason" which is much narrower: fighting against the US on behalf of an enemy country. For clarity, we should say "insurrection".

*Abuses "still rife": 10 years on from the Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza disaster.*

The reason Social Security won't have enough income after 2034 is that rich people have taken a much bigger fraction of all the income in the US. And rich people pay the social security tax on only a limited amount of their income.