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Texas Offers Major Plan to Add Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Despite Less Than 1% of Texans Using an Electric Vehicle

The Texas Department of Transportation plans to ramp up infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs), laying out a five-year plan which includes adding charging stations to major interstates, despite the fact that less than one percent of vehicles in Texas are EVs. According to the Texas Tribune, “the plan is to

This Week in the New Normal #34

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. The extreme right weaponising the outdoors Fresh from weaponising memes in 2021, the classics in 2018 and irony in

6 Dark Fairy Tales You Never Heard About

What was your favourite fairy tale when you were a child? Perhaps it was Cinderella or Snow White? Mine was Bluebeard, a disturbing tale about a serial-killer king.

Joint Letter: Human Rights Organizations Call for Renewal of UN Fact-Finding Mission on Libya

16 June 2022 Re: UN Human Rights Council (HRC) should support the renewal of the UN Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) mandate on Libya, as a matter of urgency, at the current 50th session of the HRC.

The Noetic Signature Inventory: Development, Exploration, and Initial Validation

Noetic comes from the Greek word noēsis, meaning inner wisdom or direct knowing.

Biden Energy Secretary: 'Unsustainable' Gas Prices ‘Accelerating Our Progress Toward Clean Energy'

Gas prices are “unsustainable,” but there is no “quick fix,” Biden’s Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said this week.“I mean, I think the prices are unsustainable for many people right now.

Starving Sri Lanka Shortens Work Week to Give Staff Time to Grow Food

Sri Lanka’s federal government on Monday approved a proposal that would shorten the work week of most public sector staff to four days so that workers will have time to farm their own crops, Reuters reported Tuesday, noting the measure aims to combat Sri Lanka’s worsening food shortages

The Countless Health Benefits of Curcumin

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Interest in curcumin is growing as the discovery of new delivery systems increases the bioavailability of the compound.

Ukraine: Russian Strikes Killed Scores of Civilians in Chernihiv

Russian forces killed and wounded numerous civilians in eight attacks in Chernihiv city in northeastern Ukraine in early March 2022, Human Rights Watch said today.

Biden Admin Offers Starving Sri Lanka 'Environmental Conservation' Aid

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72% of Americans Disapprove of Biden's Gas Price Policies

Americans are deeply unhappy with President Joe Biden’s energy policies.

Biden Waives Tariffs on Suspected Chinese Solar Panels

President Joe Biden on Monday announced a 24-month exemption of tariffs on solar panels from four southeast Asian nations that the Commerce Department suspects are actually made in China.

Can Ginseng Help Curb Diabetes?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Diabetes has become a “formidable challenge for public health,” with 463 million adults affected with Type 2 diabetes worldwide.

Unemployment Jumps for Black and Hispanic Women

Although the U.S.unemployment rate held steady in May, it jumped much higher among black and Hispanic women and teenagers, data from the Department of Labor showed Friday.