McDonalds has offered fixed-hours contracts to many of its workers in the UK.

A state investigation found that capital trials, and executions, in Oklahoma are so slipshod it strains belief.

I disagree with the supporters of execution, but still I am surprised they are so careless in deciding who to kill.

Pakistanis are defending the student, Mashal Khan, who was accused of blasphemy and murdered.

Alas, it seems that this is more because they think the accusation was erroneous than because of new-found respect for freedom of speech.

Turkey has begun bombing the Syrian Kurds.

Erdoğan has a history of grasping for excuses to start wars. He started a civil war with the Kurds of Turkey in order to rerun an election and get more votes. He is likely to grasp this excuse for all-out war against the Kurds of Syria.

The troll plans to "renegotiate" NAFTA, not kill it.

In principle, renegotiation could make NAFTA less damaging, or more damaging. NAFTA is damaging because it is a business-supremacy treaty, and we can't expect the troll to oppose that in general.

It is also quite likely that ultimately he won't do anything; that this is a preparation for forgetting about the issue.