Russia claims to have hypersonic nuclear missiles ready for launch.

The ability to elude antimissiles may not make any difference since there are no credible defense systems to stop ICBMs. However, the short travel time and the ability to strike anywhere from anywhere could require governments to make a snap decision about whether to retaliate. This would increase the chance of nuclear war by mistake.

A world in which the US, Russia, China and other countries have hypersonic nuclear missiles will face a bigger danger of nuclear war than the world without them. I think that stationing interceptor missiles in space will destabilize the situation further, because those could be wiped out by changing the trajectory of a piece of space junk.

The sane way to deal with these weapons is by negotiating an arms-limitation treaty to get rid of them. This is what past US presidents would have done.

People in Russia that work for foreign news media are now officially labeled as "foreign agents" and in danger of prosecution.

Plastic debris that washes up on beaches acts as deadly traps for hermit crabs, which could be wiped out by this.

US border thugs put Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez in a cell and did not have a doctor to look at him. Next morning they found him dead, so they lied about what they had done.

I don't think those thugs were exceptional. It seems to be typical of their agency.

Someone quoted in the article calls Hernandez Vasquez a "child", apparently thinking we will feel more outraged that way. I think the US government should not do that to anyone regardless of per age. Anyway, someone of age 16 is not a child.

Many prestigious US universities have stated support for an expected US government initiative against paywalls for scientific articles.

Their campaign is weakened philosophically by the mistake of advocating "open access" rather than the stronger and deeper goal of libre scientific publishing. However, it is possible that the publishers will make the articles libre anyway, or that they won't bother to repress sharing even if that isn't officially permitted.