China says it will permanently ban use of VPNs.

This will finish imposing a virtual reality of total state-controlled falsehood and manipulation on nearly everyone in China.

As humans squeeze into every conceivable niche, wildlife conservation gets second place to human agriculture, so endangered species are kept down whenever they get in the way.

West Mosul has been mostly destroyed, and the surviving civilians have no food, no water, no place to live.

Rural Americans overall are not poorer than urban Americans, but they tend to have less compassion for those who are weak or suffering. They are more religious, but that religion is a form of Christianity which has forgotten about charity.

Troll Jr.'s attempt to collude with Russia could put him and his father in legal trouble.

One of Dubya's ethics lawyers said that Troll Jr. committed treason by negotiating to buy the results of Russian spying, and the fact that ultimately there was nothing to buy doesn't alter that.

How bizarre, to be down so low that even the Bush regime is ethical by comparison.

Other Republicans join with the troll in attacking government ethics enforcers.