Lorraine Chow Nov. 02, 2016 11:23AM EST Following its final Environmental Assessment and a "Finding of No Significant Impact," the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has decided to offer 40,000 acres of Wayne National Forest—Ohio's only national forest—up for fracking . Fracking could extend to other…

Young Indian runners take part in the New Delhi 10k Challenge amid heavy smog on Sunday.Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images The Indian government has declared severe levels of toxic air pollution in Delhi an “emergency situation” as administrators announce a plan to temporarily shut…

An autonomous self-driving vehicle is tested in a pedestrianised zone, during a media event in Milton Keynes, north of London, on 11 October, 2016.Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images The first self-driving cars to be operated by ordinary British drivers will be left deliberately unmarked so…

Editor's Note: See a preview video of Indian burial rituals on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi as part of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, airing on the National Geographic Channel beginning in April. One night, a little before seven, Elisabeth Rante pulls a golden curtain back from…

Story highlights Germany will put the world's first hydrogen-powered zero-emission train into service in 2017 The non-electric network trains are powered using a hydrogen fuel cell and only emit steam and water (CNN) The world's first hydrogen powered, emission-free train is set to go into service…

After more than 20 years of construction, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is complete and, following in-depth testing, the largest-ever space telescope is expected to launch within two years, NASA officials announced today (Nov. 2). NASA Administrator Charles Bolden hosted a news conference to…

RAPID CITY, S.D. — The American bison has been designated the national mammal of the U.S. during a ceremony at Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota. Congress approved the designation last spring, and it became official Tuesday, the Rapid City Journal reported . Federal lawmakers have called the…

Getty Images You may have thought that if you owned your digital devices, you were allowed to do whatever you like with them. In truth, even for possessions as personal as your car, PC, or insulin pump, you risked a lawsuit every time you reverse-engineered their software guts to dig up their…

More than one million personal and medical records of Australian citizens donating blood to the Red Cross Blood Service have been exposed online in the country’s biggest and most damaging data breach to date. A 1.74 GB file containing 1.28 million donor records going back to 2010, published to a…

André Chung One Monday morning last fall , at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, a 16-year-old girl refused to hand over her cellphone to her algebra teacher. After multiple requests, the teacher called an administrator, who eventually summoned a sheriff’s deputy who was…

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Nestlé HQ in Vevey, Switzerland. ‘Why on earth would the state of Michigan … even consider giving MORE water for little or no cost to a foreign corporation with annual profits in the billions?’Photograph: Laurent Gillieron/AP Michigan regulators were deluged with angry comments this week, after…

Over several weeks at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, community members gathered over 100,000 signatures to put Proposition 57 on the ballot. Photo by Frankie Guzman. In shackles at the front of the courtroom, Robert kept his gaze fixed to the ground as a San Mateo County judge rattled off a…

Native American protesters say the oil pipeline is threatening indigenous cultural heritage.Photograph: Stephanie Keith/Reuters North Dakota regulators are filing a complaint against the oil company building the Dakota Access pipeline for failing to disclose the discovery of Native American…

Three and a half years after he inherited Andrew Breitbart’s right-wing media fiefdom, Steve Bannon finally proved himself a worthy heir: he bet against Bloomberg Businessweek ’s ability to read and won. “Steve Bannon runs the new vast right-wing conspiracy,” ran the subhead to that week’s cover…

Getty Images Federal immigration authorities expect to hold record numbers of detainees over the next year, and that's music to the ears of private prison executives. Executives from the two biggest private prison companies in the country told investors Thursday morning that they saw a major growth…

The aspiring asteroid miners at Planetary Resources have struck pay dirt in Luxembourg, the tiny (but wealthy) European country positioning itself as an ally to commercial space. The country is directly investing €12 million, with another €13 million coming from public investment bank SNCI. This…

For weeks, heavily armed police and #NoDAPL protesters have been clashing over a portion of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a massive project connecting the wind swept oil fields of North Dakota to refineries on the Gulf Coast. The protests, which turned violent this week, center largely on the risk to…

Dorothy Johnson-Speight visits the grave of her son, Khaaliq Jabbar Johnson, who was shot dead over a parking space dispute in 2001, Philadelphia, May 9, 2016. (AP Photo / Matt Rourke) Every day, on average, seven kids and teens are shot dead in America. Election 2016 will undoubtedly prove…

Since the Supreme Court struck down a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, more than a dozen Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed a wave of laws that restrict when, where, and how people can cast a ballot. They have also, a new report reveals, shut down hundreds of polling…

Several of the Senate’s biggest hawks are receiving a crucial political lifeline from the country’s most famous libertarian billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch. Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are some of the loudest proponents on Capitol Hill of…

A single elder, a veteran, repeatedly walked out and yelled: “Send one unarmed like I am out here to negotiate. Please. We are protecting the water for our children and yours. Send one out here to negotiate. Let’s talk! Please!” Photo by Desiree Kane. Last week, the world watched in horror as a…

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A common refrain in discussions over the future of mobile is that “eventually, all mobile apps will be iOS or Android apps.” But many of these commentators have a vested interest in helping native mobile apps survive. Proclamations of an all-native mobile app world ignore the fact that browsers and…

A birth control pill for men remains an elusive dream. BSIP/UIG/Getty Images Whether it's an IUD, a shot, an implant, or a daily pill, birth control is a regular part of many adult women's lives. It has left a lot of women asking: Why not men? For years, people have tried to create birth control for…

Sean Smyrichinsky recently spent several hours diving for sea cucumbers off Pitt Island , near Haida Gwaii. He didn’t find any. But he decided to hop on his underwater scooter for one last look before calling it a day. Flying around underwater, he spotted something unusual on the ocean floor. “I…

Ghost soldiers: the Russians secretly dying for the Kremlin in Syria

Enlarge Dystopian corporate surveillance threats today come at us from all directions. Companies offer “always-on” devices that listen for our voice commands, and marketers follow us around the web to create personalized user profiles so they can (maybe) show us ads we’ll actually click. Now…

By Therese Apel JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) - A historic black church in Mississippi was burned and spray-painted with "Vote Trump" and authorities said on Wednesday it was arson and being probed as a hate crime committed one week before the U.S. presidential election. Greenville Fire Chief Ruben Brown…

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Nov. 2, 2016, 10:35 PM GMT / Updated Nov. 4, 2016, 12:02 AM GMT By Chiara A Sottile STANDING ROCK, North Dakota — Police in riot gear shot rubber bullets and used pepper…

Getty Images The second-largest private prison company in America made an illegal $100,000 donation to a Super PAC supporting Donald Trump, a good government group alleged Tuesday. A subsidiary of the GEO Group, which runs 64 prisons and jails around the country, made the donation in August to…

U.S. militia girds for trouble as presidential election nears

Public housing residents in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Photographer: Mario Tama/Getty Images Photographer: Mario Tama/Getty Images Loraine Helber runs the public housing authority in Punta Gorda, Florida, a city of 18,000 just north of Fort Myers at the mouth of the Peace River. In March,…

Ashaninka girls walk through a forest path as they return to their village in the Peruvian Amazon.Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP The world’s indigenous communities need to be given a bigger role in climate stabilisation, according to a new study that shows at least a quarter of forest carbon is stored…

Jon Stewart tears into Trump at NY event

Sheldon Adelson, the politically influential billionaire and Donald Trump supporter , is bankrolling the fight against marijuana legalization measures on several state ballots this year. Meanwhile, Adelson the philanthropist gave money to research that supports the medical use of marijuana. The…

Janine Jackson interviewed Brandi Collins about surveillance of the Movement for Black Lives for the October 28, 2016, episode of CounterSpin . This is a lightly edited transcript. Brandi Collins: “This line between mass and targeted surveillance is being erased, particularly as it pertains to…

Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh November 7 – December 7 , 1929 The Museum of Modern Art Paintings by 19 Living Americans December 12 , 1929– January 12 , 1930 The Museum of Modern Art Painting in Paris January 19 – March 2 , 1930 The Museum of Modern Art Weber, Klee, Lehmbruck, Maillol March 12 –…