Today, 16 young people from around the world submitted a groundbreaking legal complaint about climate change with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Their petition shows how five regional leaders and G20 members—Respondents Argentina, Brazil, France,…
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Deadly mosquito-borne virus spreads
The New Jersey Department of Health is encouraging residents to take steps to protect themselves from all mosquito-borne diseases as officials are struggling to suppress the outbreak of Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare virus transmitted to people and horses by…
Lake Hopatcong turns the tide on algae bloom
The Department of Environmental Protection lifted harmful algal bloom advisories for additional areas of Lake Hopatcong, bringing to about 60 percent the total area of the lake no longer under advisory. DEP monitoring indicates that cell counts for cyanobacteria, the…
Teen tells Congress to get going on climate change
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish activist, politely told members of Congress that they are not doing enough to combat the urgent threat of global warming during a meeting of the Senate climate crisis task force on Tuesday. Thunberg has galvanized…
Bipartisan group seeks end to U.S. involvement in Yemen
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) led a bipartisan group of 44 lawmakers urging Congress to defund unauthorized U.S. military involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen in the…
Bernie Sanders: Poverty is a death sentence
A groundbreaking Government Accountability Office (GAO) study commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), released this week, provides a comprehensive picture of income, wealth, life expectancy, and retirement security among older Americans. The GAO found not only that the rich are…
Gabbard & Delaney should debate head to head
Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) says being excluded from today’s debate shows that elite “gatekeepers” want to decide who is the party’s nominee. Democratic presidential candidate John Delaney, a former Maryland congressman who was born in New Jersey,…
Democratic presidential debate in Houston
Tonight, the leading 10 Democratic presidential candidates will take the debate stage in Houston for the third debate of the 2020 primary, this time hosted by ABC News. The third presidential debate will put Democratic ideas for gun violence prevention…
5 Preliminary Measures That Can Make or Break a New Tech Product
Inventing a new tech product and bringing it into the world can be a challenging process that involves numerous steps which need to be taken before you can even facilitate your very first sale. In fact, many of the efforts…
Judge Anne Thompson appointed 40 years ago
Judge Anne Elise Thompson never had specific career goals, and never imagined she would be part of a historic class of women judges appointed to the federal bench in 1979. A theater arts teacher in her early years after college, she…