Can We Fix Carbon Offsets? (time.com)
Nature-based carbon offsets have taken a great deal of criticism. Kelly Kizzier of the Bezos Earth Fund responds.
South China Sea: Philippines removes Chinese barrier in contested area (www.bbc.com)
The Philippines says it has removed a floating barrier installed by Beijing in the South China Sea.
‘The kids had all been tortured’: Indonesian military accused of targeting children in West Papua (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Australia is seeking to strengthen ties with Indonesia, despite new reports of brutality by the military — including the torture and murder of civilians — in West Papua
Bob Menendez: 'I will be exonerated' on fraud charges (www.bbc.com)
The Democratic senator from New Jersey says he will run for re-election in the face of federal charges.
Ukraine says it killed top Russian admiral in Crimea missile attack (www.politico.eu)
’34 officers died, including the commander of the Russian armed forces,’ Kyiv says.
“Cinema Unmasked: Martin Scorsese Dissects the Truth Behind Comic Book and Franchise Movies” (www.superherospotnow.com)
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The world's richest oil states should pay a global windfall tax to help poorer nations combat climate change, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown (www.bbc.com)
He said countries such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Norway benefited from a “lottery style bonanza” last year, as the price of oil soared. Mr Brown argues a $25bn (£20.4bn) levy would boost prospects of a deal on a climate fund for poorer countries.
US failed to provide regress to Iraqis who suffered torture and other abuse by US forces at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prisons in Iraq two decades ago, rights activists say (www.hrw.org)
“Twenty years on, Iraqis who were tortured by US personnel still have no clear path for filing a claim or receiving any kind of redress or recognition from the US government,” said Sarah Yager, Washington director at Human Rights Watch. “US officials have indicated that they prefer to leave torture in the past, but the...
Hollywood writers and studios reach tentative deal to end strike after nearly 150 days (www.cnbc.com)
Talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers resumed last week after months of starts and stops.
Hollywood writers reach a tentative deal with studios, agree to end strike (www.npr.org)
Hollywood production has been halted for months as actors and writers have been on strike. Now, the writers are headed back to work. Actors represented by SAG-AFTRA remain on strike.
The Supreme Court will hear a case with a lot of 'buts' & 'ifs' over the meaning of 'and' (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s hard to imagine a less contentious or more innocent word than “and.”...
Arriving Now: Fast Passenger Trains From Miami to Orlando (www.nytimes.com)
Brightline will make the trip in three and a half hours, with round-trip tickets starting at $158.
China’s quest for human genetic data spurs fears of a DNA arms race (www.adn.com)
China offered multiple countries help with COVID-19 testing during the pandemic. The payoff for Beijing included access to the DNA of millions of people.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth (www.wired.com)
The OSIRIS-REx probe is carrying rock samples from the asteroid Bennu, millions of miles away. If it works, it will be only the third such retrieval in history.
9/11 defendant ruled unfit for trial after CIA abuse left him psychotic, panel finds (globalnews.ca)
Ramzi bin al-Shibh is accused of organizing one cell of the hijackers who commandeered 4 commercial airplanes to carry out the 9/11 attacks.
The U.S. federal government is headed into a shutdown. What does it mean, who’s hit and what’s next? (www.cnbc.com)
A shutdown happens when the U.S. Congress fails to pass some type of funding legislation that is signed into law by the president.
Medical ethics organization lodges complaint over monkey deaths in Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip trials as company is looking for human volunteers to test its implants (english.elpais.com)
Neuralink was founded in 2017 and began animal experiments 12 months later. Last year, a Reuters investigation indicated that the company had slaughtered around 1,500 animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs, and monkeys, which suffered from serious disorders before dying. But it wasn’t until September 10 that Musk...
How anti-abortion laws shape trans healthcare bans in the U.S. [Opinion] (www.opendemocracy.net)
The right paved the way for once-unthinkable bans by first pursuing goals that were more palatable to the public, using bathroom bills and school sports bans to normalise hateful anti-trans rhetoric in the American public sphere. This tactic has been effective....
‘A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail [Long read] (www.theguardian.com)
A UN report found that 700,000 Palestinians had been arrested since the occupation began, equal to roughly 40% of all the men and boys in the territories. The damage wasn’t only to the affected families, each of them grieving lost years and lost childhoods. It was to the entire society, to every mother, father and grandparent,...
UAE oil company executives working with Cop28 team, leak reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Two PR professionals from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) are identified as providing “additional support” to the team running the summit, according to a Cop28 communications strategy document obtained by the Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR) and the Guardian. The two Adnoc communications executives - Philip...
Alabama seeks to execute prisoner using nitrogen gas asphyxiation (www.reuters.com)
Sept 22 (Reuters) - The Supreme Court of Alabama is weighing whether to allow the state to become the first to execute a prisoner with a novel method: asphyxiation using nitrogen gas....
US Senator Menendez charged with bribery, steps down from Senate committee role (www.reuters.com)
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged powerful Senator Bob Menendez and his wife with taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen, which could complicate Democrats' efforts to keep their slim majority in the U.S. Senate in next year's elections....
Some providers are dropping gender-affirming care for kids even in cases where it's legal (apnews.com)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — As Republican-led states have rushed to ban gender-affirming for minors, some families with transgender children found a bit of solace: At least they lived in states that would allow those already receiving puberty blockers or hormone therapy to continue.
Mastodon makes a major move amid Musk’s multiple messes (www.theregister.com)
Federated social network adds n00b-friendly features to the 'Fediverse'
US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills (www.theguardian.com)
Court documents in the case revealed that Facebook’s parent company Meta supplied police with the private Facebook messages that Celeste and Jessica Burgess had sent one another.
