Proposed Bill Would Prevent Your Employer From Accessing Your Birth Control Schedule.

I support this, but why take such a tiny step? All of a person's medical data should be unavailable to employers.

Sections of Great Barrier Reef Suffering from 'Complete Ecosystem Collapse': some species of fish have disappeared, and others are greatly reduced.

Bleaching of corals is continuing even though it is winter now.

Some American action movies now have hardly any words in them.

They are aimed at the Chinese audience, and China permits violence, but not much else.

A Hong Kong protest leader has been convicted -- of protesting, more or less.

This is part of the Hong Kong government's increased repression of opposition to Chinese censorship and power.

US-supported Syrian resistance groups intentionally kill civilians and prisoners, though Assad's forces do it more.

One of them beheaded a captured enemy child soldier in cold blood.

The prisoner was just 12 years old -- a child, not an adolescent. However, killing even adult prisoners is wrong.