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What life under U.S. sanctions looks like for one ICC judge
A Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court faces extensive U.S. sanctions, losing access to American company services, credit cards, and health insurance coverage after participating in a judicial decision on an Afghanistan investigation.
Moroccan intelligence uses surveillance to ‘silence’ journalists: Amnesty
Amnesty International has released a report documenting Morocco’s intelligence agency’s use of spyware and surveillance techniques against journalists and human rights defenders, citing testimony from a former agency employee.
Asus won’t say how it escaped the US router ban
Asus received a US router import exemption but declined to clarify whether it submitted a required domestic manufacturing plan, raising questions about the ban’s actual purpose beyond national security claims.
Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’
Amazon plans to equip delivery drivers with smart glasses that capture thousands of photos during shifts for analysis on its AI platform, raising privacy concerns about continuous image collection.
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Federal transit cuts could hit rural America hardest
Federal transit funding would decrease under the proposed BUILD America 250 Act, with rural communities and states like Idaho and Maine facing significant reductions in public transportation support.
Has the farm bill hit a dead end?
Congress faces difficulty passing a farm bill this year, marking four consecutive years without renewal. Democratic opposition centers on insufficient SNAP funding restoration following previous budget cuts.
Explainer: How sea level rise poses an ‘existential threat’ to humans, heritage and nature
Rising sea levels are reshaping economies and livelihoods globally, with world leaders adopting a UN declaration recognizing sea level rise as an existential threat affecting 770 million people.
Trump wants to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs
The Trump administration plans to reverse Forest Service rules, allowing motorized vehicles on national forest trails unless explicitly closed, replacing the current policy of trails being closed unless designated open.
A clean energy source is buried under the desert, but it takes water to use it
Geothermal energy companies are racing to tap heat beneath Western deserts to power data centers, but the technology requires significant water in an arid region already facing drought challenges.
Offshore wind job training built for a boom is facing down a bust
Offshore wind training programs face uncertain futures as the Trump administration pursues policies aimed at curtailing the emerging industry, leaving workers and educational initiatives questioning their long-term viability.
Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found three miles from famous site
Archaeologists discovered a simpler, earlier version of Stonehenge about 3 miles away, featuring two wooden posts aligned with solar solstices and dating back roughly 5,000 years.
Antarctica’s first ever dinosaur bone discovered in a drawer
Scientists have confirmed that a fossil stored in a drawer for 40 years is Antarctica’s first ever discovered dinosaur bone, a tail vertebra from a Titanosaur dating back 82 million years.
The clues that hint our planet might be heating faster than we realised
Scientists debate whether declining air pollution from clean-air policies is accelerating global warming by removing a cooling effect that previously masked greenhouse gas warming.
Textbooks may have misdrawn this basic brain structure for 100 years
Researchers found that brain axons may have a pearled structure previously overlooked in textbooks for about a century, with implications for how neural signals travel through the brain.
The end of humanity? What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted now
Scientists monitor unusual seismic activity at Yellowstone supervolcano, triggering emergency protocols as earthquake swarms migrate upward and ground deformation accelerates, raising eruption probability significantly.
A strange circle on satellite maps turned out to be a 390-million-year-old impact crater
An amateur astronomer searching Quebec satellite maps for camping locations discovered evidence of a previously unknown 390-million-year-old impact crater, later confirmed by scientists as one of Earth’s largest.