The recent resignations of two members of Congress have reignited a conversation about sexual harassment in politics nearly nine years after the peak of the #MeToo movement. And new data sheds more light on the scope of the problem — and the major barriers to reporting and addressing abuse.

This year, we present two accounts from nurses who steal for the common good. In honor of the fight that people in the Twin Cities have put up against the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement occupation of their communities, we share testimony from a nurse in Minnesota who reappropriates medical supplies from the workplace to equip those who are confronting ICE in the street.

Despite Israel and Hamas reaching a ceasefire agreement on October 10, 2025, Israeli attacks have continued to kill hundreds of civilians in Gaza. Now, nearly seven months after the fighting was supposed to have ended, Christians and Muslims alike struggle to observe their holy traditions while in the throes of war and grief. See our report and video from this year’s Ramadan in Gaza City.

Scientists have discovered all five nucleobases—the fundamental components of DNA and RNA—in pristine samples from the asteroid Ryugu, according to a study published on Monday in Nature Astronomy. The finding strengthens the case that the ingredients for life are abundant in the solar system and may have found their way to Earth from space, according to a study published on Monday in Nature Astronomy.

Life as we know it runs on DNA and RNA, which are built from five chemical bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil. A team has now identified this “complete set” of nucleobases in rocks snatched from the surface of Ryugu in 2019 by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2, which successfully returned them to Earth the following year.

Israeli Steadicopter announced on March 9 that it signed a services agreement with the U.S.-based company flyAlchemy to support operational deployment and evaluation of its Black Eagle 50E rotary unmanned aerial system in the United States.

The agreement is intended to enable flight demonstrations, customer evaluation programs, and mission development activities aimed at introducing the rotary UAV platform to U.S. government and commercial users.

According to the company, Steadicopter will supply Black Eagle 50E platforms that will be used in demonstration flights and operational assessments carried out at flyAlchemy’s U.S. flight test locations.

The January 29 executive order by President Donald Trump to blockade oil shipments to Cuba by threatening third party countries with 100 per cent tariffs is unprecedented and against the United National Charter.

That said – not much is stopping Trump these days including sending his wife Melania to address the United Nations Security Council in the wake of attacks on Iran.

The blocking of oil to Cuba is spurring demonstrations around the world in support of Cuba and is also encouraging NGOs and individuals to collect aid to be sent to Cuba. Generators, solar panels, food and medical aid among other items are being filled into containers. Mexico has sent at least four ships full of government aid and also donations from the Mexican people.

As documented by Alabama Political Reporter, his hunger strike began after the “prison reform activist” started speaking out; as confirmed by ADOC, an altercation occurred November 20, 2025, between Traywick and a corrections officer, “resulting in an administration of chemical spray to the face.” Traywick was “contained and escorted” to the healthcare unit, where his strike began. He was prepared; this wasn’t his first strike.

Unicorn Riot spoke with Traywick — at ADOC-enforced 15-minute intervals — about his most recent protest, and how it connects to the larger historical and current movements to improve prison conditions and reduce recidivism in Alabama and across the United States. During our conversations, he spoke at length about his fellow ‘inside’ activists Melvin Ray, Robert Earl Council (aka Kinetic Justice) and Raoul Poole, three incarcerated whistleblowers featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary “The Alabama Solution.” The “bombshell investigation” “exposes a hidden world of violence and corruption” that Traywick says he has witnessed and experienced for the last 16 years.

In the spring of 2024, as pro-Palestine encampments were still popping up at universities across the country, a student organizer named Kathy got a text she’d long feared: a notorious police unit was now operating on her campus at the University of British Columbia.

In a chat devoted to monitoring police activity, encampment participants left messages saying they had noticed vehicles with the name of the paramilitary Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) unit parked outside, and had seen its officers roaming university buildings.

“C-IRG actually were walking all over the campus, not just at the encampment,” recalled Lamya, another organizer. “They were also at this point entering the student union building, student classrooms, and stationed in them 24/7 with binoculars, staring into the camp.”

Foul language became a defining, and often controversial, hallmark of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s persona. His political brand was built on a “big mouth.”

Supporters cheered his profanity-laced tirades as the raw authenticity of a “punisher” willing to do whatever it took to keep the streets safe. But at last week’s confirmation of charges hearings at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, that same bluster was transformed from political theater into the prosecution’s Exhibit A.

Over four days, the court saw a high-stakes tug-of-war over the weight of Duterte’s words. Prosecutors called his public statements the “smoking gun” linking the mayor-turned-president to a systematic campaign of extrajudicial killings. The defense called them the “colorful and crusty” hyperbole of a populist whose words were never meant as literal death warrants.

Godfrey-Smith was one of over 50 people who joined a protest last month against the Trump administration’s plans to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth. They blocked the entrance to the Health and Human Services Department headquarters to demand that the government stop blocking medical care for transgender kids. Godfrey-Smith was among the 25 protesters arrested.

Parents and grandparents of trans youth, plus their therapists and medical providers, are fed up after years of health care bans and hostile rhetoric. Those feelings are driving them to do things they’ve never done before — like plan to get arrested at a protest.

In February 2025, Russell Vought, a White House official who oversaw sweeping cuts across federal agencies, took control of the CFPB as acting director. He quickly ordered a stop to nearly all agency work. Under his leadership, the CFPB has attempted to fire most of its staff, frozen investigations and dropped enforcement actions, including against TransUnion. One of the CFPB’s new lawyers leading the pullback on enforcement represented Experian for years before joining the administration.

The credit bureaus “want to do as little as possible,” said Chi Chi Wu, director of consumer reporting at the National Consumer Law Center, which is a plaintiff in a lawsuit that has so far blocked some of the administration’s dismantling efforts.

“The thing that is making them do any kind of effort is a lawsuit or a regulator, and now we don’t have the regulator,” Wu said.

The U.S. subsidiaries of Brookfield, BMO and AtkinsRéalis (formerly SNC-Lavalin) plus 13 other companies headquartered in Canada directed donations to American politicians who voted not to certify the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

A new analysis of U.S. Federal Elections Commission data between 2021 and 2025 revealed 16 Canada-based companies collectively funded 87 of the 147 congresspeople or senators who objected to certifying election results in Arizona, Pennsylvania, or both, in turn refusing to confirm Joe Biden as president in January 2021.

The analysis and report was prepared by New York-based Donations and Democracy. The organization tracks foreign-headquartered companies that contributed to the campaigns of any of the 147 politicians who cast doubt on the election, even after protesters stormed the Capitol to halt Biden’s certification.

On paper, India banned the import of scrap tyres for extracting the pyrolysis oil in 2022. But it did not put a mechanism in place to monitor the ban. In fact, the import of waste tyres has consistently increased over the years, and pyrolysis plants in cities like Morena work overtime, burning imported waste tyres.

“The residents have been breathing cancer for the last decade,” says Yogendra Mawai, a professor of Pharmacy at Shri Ram College of Pharmacy, Morena, who has been researching the health impacts of the emissions on the environment and people for years. “These factories cook domestic and imported tyres many times higher than their permissible limits.”

Known for their signature multi-stripe design, point blankets were first turned into coats by a group of Indigenous women who were hired by British captain Charles Roberts to create new winter outerwear for soldiers at the fort that he commanded near Sault Ste. Marie in 1811. The point coat was first sold commercially in 1922, eventually becoming such an important Canadian symbol that they were proudly worn by the Canadian national team in both the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympic parades.

In response to governmental neglect, farmers organized a protest. It began in Afidnes, where farmers gathered from all across Greece and waited with tractors lined up, ready to roll toward the parliament in Athens. For the farmers, this was a powerful act of defiance — a show of solidarity that aimed to gather more international recognition for their issues. Farmers of all ages came together, from teenagers to elders — they stood with anticipation, sharing both grievances and discontent toward the system.

Canadian federal institutions overwhelmingly fail to meet a policy requirement to report material privacy breaches within a mandated seven-day timeframe.

Since that guideline came into effect in 2022, records show only one per cent of privacy breaches have been reported within seven days. On average, federal institutions took more than eight months to notify the privacy watchdog of a breach.

The statistics are revealed in a log prepared by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC), which was obtained under access to information by the IJF. The log shows a total of 1,634 privacy breaches reported by federal institutions during the relevant period, affecting 525,310 individuals.

When not snickering at it, commentators have largely dismissed the current NDP leadership race.

They point out, correctly, that the party got wiped out last spring, winning only seven measly seats in Parliament — barely enough to fill a golf cart, not enough for party status.

So the NDP is a dud. Case closed. After all, nothing ever changes in politics. Right?

Except, for instance, in 1993 when the Progressive Conservatives were slashed from a majority to two paltry seats in Parliament — just enough to fill all seats on a bicycle built for two.

I’m not willing to conclude Prime Minister Mark Carney’s grip on Canada is forever.

Social media giant Meta has strongly suggested it will abandon its Australian fact-checking operations — such as those used to flag lies over the Bondi terror attacks — in line with its moves in Donald Trump’s America.

Forced by law to appear before the Senate inquiry into climate misinformation — after twice rejecting earlier invitations — Meta executives said the company was “reconsidering” fact-checking in Australia.

Meta currently funds Australian Associated Press, which operates AAP Fact Check, and Agence France-Presse (AFP), to undertake fact checking, whereby they flag certain articles they deem to be “false” or “altered”.

There have been question marks over those arrangements since Meta killed fact checking in the US last year, in a move praised by US President Donald Trump.

In the US it instead now operates a “community notes” system where checking posts is left to users themselves, rather than professionals, in a process experts have described as “ripe for abuse”.

The Kansas Department of Revenue this week sent a letter to Kansans affected by a new law, which took effect Thursday, that requires the gender marker on a driver’s license to match a person’s sex at birth.

The letter informs trans Kansans that because the Legislature didn’t include a grace period for updating credentials, they are “invalid immediately, and you may be subject to additional penalties if you are operating a vehicle without a valid credential.” A spokesman for the agency told Kansas Reflector the law invalidated about 1,700 licenses.

The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their technology to be used in the two ways they have publicly stated they would not support: autonomous weapons systems and surveillance. The Department of Defense has reportedly threatened to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” in retribution for not lifting restrictions on how their technology is used. According to WIRED, that label would be, “a scarlet letter usually reserved for companies that do business with countries scrutinized by federal agencies, like China, which means the Pentagon would not do business with firms using Anthropic’s AI in their defense work.”

In 2012, a survey from the nonprofit Vancouver Foundation identified a perplexing trend: as the city was densifying in response to its housing crisis, people—especially those who lived in high-density housing—reported feeling less connected to their neighbours. A growing body of research since then has found a correlation between living in high-density urban environments and increased rates of social isolation, due to factors including a lack of secure tenure in rental buildings, poor architectural design, a dearth of green space and limited access to nature, and stigma related to cultural values that equate high-density housing with lower social status.