Chicago's community groups have been given a consultative role in management of the thug department.

Brazil's corrupt congress is hurrying to allow sugar plantations in Amazonia — which would encourage deforestation.

Stateless people in Australia are being imprisoned without charge and could be imprisoned for the rest of their lives.

It's like Guantanamo, but for prisoners not even suspected of any crime.

Sea-level rise, hurried by global heating, is eating away at Louisiana.

Relocating 400 people from the disappearing Isle de Jean Charles will cost 50 million dollars.

Making a rough guess, if accelerating sea-level rise forces 400,000 Americans per year to move, a couple of decades from now, the US won't help them at all.

Afghan imams are trying to convince jihadi leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan to allow polio vaccination. Finding and killing Osama bin Laden did the US no good, but setting up of phony vaccination activity to find him has done great harm to children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. If not for that, polio would have been eradicated by now.