The drought in California is forcing ranchers to move lots of cattle out of that state.

Global heating is expected to cause more and worse droughts there and in the US southwest.

China has published 1940s documents that prove the Japanese army forced Korean women to be prostitutes for Japanese soldiers in China.

Many nations have atrocities in their history — Japan is not uniquely bad. (The US has quite a few.) Nations that deny their atrocities get twisted up in a net of lies that prepares them to commit more atrocities.

Kerry has started to put verbal pressure on Israel to make peace.

It is not much, but it is a start. Defying the Israeli hawks' lobby is the only way to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine.

An Egyptian court has convicted 683 members of the Muslim Brotherhood and sentenced them to death after a one-sided trial (no defense possible).

An anti-Russian politician in Eastern Ukraine was shot by a sniper and may die of it.