DR Congo agrees to take deportees from the US pred 6 urami in 19 minutami The country will start receiving deportees from this month but has not said how many they will accept.(BBC News)
‘A surrender to special interests’: alarm as Utah shields fossil-fuel companies pred 6 urami in 48 minutami New legislation comes amid push from big oil, as critics warn polluters’ profits prioritized over Americans’ healthUtah has made it nearly impossible for residents to hold fossil fuel companies legally accountable for climate damages in a move one advocacy group described as putting “profits for the biggest polluters over communities”, with other states expected to follow suit.The new state legislation comes as part of a push from big oil and its political allies – including groups tied to rightwing impresario Leonard Leo – for legal immunity in red statehouses and Congress, with a goal of winning state and federal legal immunity similar to the liability waiver granted to the firearms industry in 2005. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
The DOJ Misled a Judge About How It’s Using Voter Roll Data pred 6 urami in 48 minutami The acting head of the DOJ’s voting section told a judge last week that the agency had not touched the nonpublic voter roll data it has collected. That wasn’t true.(Wired)