Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Activists paddle to COP-30 climate summit with call for solidarity in climate struggle as nations fall short; Court strikes down LA warning against false complaints against police officers, calling it biased; Democrat Adelita Grijalva finally sworn in … Continued


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More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real “Smoking Gun” Remains Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence | Silicon Valley’s Migration to Texas with Musk’s Monarcho-Capitalism Embracing the Christian Nationalist of Petrobaptists | A New Poll That Finds GOP Voters See Trump as Tough, Intelligent or a Peacemaker While Democrats and Independents Say He’s Destructive, Erratic or Reckless

More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real “Smoking Gun” Remains Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence We begin with House Democrats releasing incriminating emails from Epstein expressing surprise that Trump had not been tied to his and Maxwell’s sex trafficking victims, one of whom Epstein said Trump spent hours with at his house, going on … Continued


First-time presentation of the full-length interview with Brandon Keim about his book Meet the Neighbors, in which he considers the explosion of research into animal intelligence, emotion, and sociality; takes research findings out into everyday landscapes; and examines how wild animals are viewed and treated. Brandon Keim, Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in … Continued