The survivors of the London fire feared having their welfare benefits cut for missing their jobcenter appointments.

That's not an unreasonable fear after the absurd excuses Tories have used to punish people. Indeed, it occurs to me that perhaps the Tories would have punished them for missing their appointments, if not for the publicity that the fire has drawn.

Brazil's corrupt president Temer decided to veto a bill to unprotect a 2300 square miles of the Amazon rain forest, after an appeal from a supermodel.

New corruption evidence against Brazil's President Temer offers once again a possibility he could be removed from his ill-gotten office.

Exxon and several other large companies endorsed a carbon emissions tax, but in exchange they demand abolition of other policies designed to reduce CO2 emissions.

Whether the tax would do a better job depends on whether the tax is big enough. I have no way of judging that question.

Don't think of war as a remedy for the death of Otto Warmbier. War would be much worse.

It is clear that the North Koreans did not kill him intentionally. If they had done that, it would not have looked like this.

We don't know why he died, and — most strangely — his family has forbidden an autopsy.

The troll has said nothing about the terrorist attack on Muslim in London, tacitly expressing his acceptance of random violence against them.