Mike Tang lost his appeal, and has been sentenced to two months of "hard labor" for telling his son to walk home at night.

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Mehdi Karroubi ended his hunger strike when the government of Iran agreed to take the human spies out of his house. But he still has not received any official charges to justify his punishment.

The Mayor of Charlottesville will campaign for repeal of the Virginia law that prohibits removing monuments to the Confederacy.

It is better not to call them "Confederate monuments" because term suggests they remain from the Confederacy itself. In fact, most of them were erected by white supremacists long after the Civil War, mostly after 1900, and some in the 21st century.

While the law prohibits removing the monument to Lee, an alternate way to deal with it is by erecting another monument nearby, perhaps depicting some of Lee's slaves after they were freed.

Was there a regiment of freed slaves from Virginia? That regiment could be honored in Emancipation Park.

EPA Welcomed Industry Feedback Before Reversing Pesticide Ban, Ignoring Health Concerns.

The troll's saboteurs are hard at work, and they are making steady progress. Their mission is to help rich Americans get even more rich by poisoning the rest of us.

For the most part, the real actions of the saboteurs are more important than what the troll says, which is mainly for distraction. So normally I focus on the real actions. His support for Nazis and bigots is an exception because that has real and harmful effects.

Wildlife protection leader Wayne Lotter was murdered in Tanzania, perhaps by a team engaged specifically to assassinate him.