Another Salvadorean woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for supposedly "killing" a fetus.

The article does not make it clear whether she had an abortion or an accidental miscarriage. Maybe there is a dispute about which one it was, The verdict is unjust either way; only the precise nature of the injustice depends on which one it was.

*Trump inquired if China could make hurricanes to harm US, ex-officials say.*

In fact, China has been doing exactly that -- by building more coal-fired power plants. However, it is wrong to focus the blame primarily on China. Historically, the US has done much more to exacerbate hurricanes than China has.

*It's True Crisis Time for Trans People in America.* Trans people, and then anyone homosexual, are the scapegoats of choice of religious extremists, as they push for laws that ought to be obvious violations of the First Amendment.

In 2019, Bogus Johnson made two conflicting commitments about future trade rules, one to Northern Ireland and one to the EU. At the time, people pointed out this could not work and would lead to big trouble. Johnson just brushed it off at the time, but the trouble is getting bigger.

When Exxon determined that recycling plastics was unlikely ever to be practical, it launched a high-powered PR and lobbying campaign to label plastic products as "recyclable" so people would believe that recycling them was really an option.

Now, the biggest US bottled-water company is fighting a lawsuit over falsely telling the public that its bottles are recyclable. Its defense is to claim that people should have known all along that that was bullshit.