California has shut the door to applications for new or increased use of neonicotinoid pesticides.

That is a positive step, but they are already used at a dangerous level, and they remain in the soil for years.

After three years of partial ban, still 1/4 of the honey samples in the UK contain neonicotinoids. Before, half of them did.

Macron wants to give the French state blanket censorship power in the name of stopping "fake news".

That's as absurd as giving the state broad surveillance power in the name of stopping "terrorism". Oh, right, France has already done that.

The Republicans control the Virginia lower house after a random selection in a tied election chose the Republican for one seat.

When fracking started, North Texas hadn't had an earthquake for 300 million years. Now it has many of them.

US citizens: Call on Congress to stop the president from pardoning per family members, cabinet members, or former advisors.

I think a better criterion would be: pardoning acts done for the president, in association with the president, or at the orders of the president.