Local authorities in southern China are investigating distillers for adding the impotence drug Viagra to their products. Officials seized more than 5,300 bottles of baiju, a clear, grain-based spirit that is the country’s most popular hard liquor, along with large quantities of sildenafil, the generic name for the drug.
It is well documented that America disproportionately jails its minorities. And according to new research, this racial bias in punishing transgressions starts early on, in schools which treat students with behavioral problems differently: “criminalizing” black kids, and “medicalizing” whites.
The use of long-lasting and highly-effective intrauterine devices is on the rise in the United States, and much of the increase is due to the quiet efforts of Warren Buffett, the third-richest man in the world.
Researchers say they have finally found a vaccine that could provide complete protection against Ebola, a deadly virus that has been raging in several countries in Western Africa for two years, killing more than 11,000 people.
The Jerusalem gay rights parade was thrown into chaos today (July 30) when a man stabbed six marchers, leaving two of them in serious condition.
A museum that was intended to be dedicated to women’s history in London’s East End has been revamped into a museum about Jack the Ripper, the 19th century serial killer who butchered female sex workers. The man behind it all is Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, a former diversity head at Google.
Dylann Roof, who is accused of shooting and killing 9 people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, got an outspoken proponent for racial justice as his public defender. (h/t The Marshall Project).
On July 19, University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing stopped 43-year old Samuel DuBose because his car was missing a front license plate. Minutes later, DuBose, a black man, was dead, after Tensing, a white police officer, shot him in the head. Today a grand jury indicted Tensing on murder charges.
US late night TV show host Jimmy Kimmel joined the internet chorus outraged at the killing of a beloved Zimbabwean lion, Cecil, by US dentist Walter Palmer.
The person responsible for the death of beloved Zimbabwean lion Cecil, Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer, is being pummeled on social media by lion lovers and hunter haters.
Jonathan Pollard, who has been in prison since 1987 for spying on the United States for Israel, will be paroled on November 20, after a decision by a government review panel. His release has widely been seen as an olive branch to Israel and its supporters, who are outraged at an US-brokered deal to ease sanctions on Iran, but Pollard’s lawyers said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal (paywall) that the release has nothing to do with the Iran deal.
After at least seven people working at the Guantanamo Bay military base and detention facility in Cuba had been diagnosed with cancer, according to a complaint filed with the US Department of Defense, officials are investigating whether there is cause for concern. The complaint seeks to evacuate parts of the facility and test it for carcinogens, Reuters reports.
Australian cats are facing an unprecedented crackdown. In order to protect endangered species like the ringtailed possum from feline predators, the federal government is calling on owners to keep their domestic cats inside at all times, especially near conservation areas, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
In a controversial event this weekend (July 25), the Detroit chapter of the Satanic Temple held a public unveiling of a 9-foot, 1-ton (1.02 tonnes) bronze sculpture of Baphomet, a winged deity with a goat’s head, as adherents chanted “Hail Satan.”
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Police have identified the shooter who killed two people and wounded nine at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana as 59-year-old white male named John Russel Houser.
Poland’s lower chamber of parliament passed a bill yesterday (link in Polish) that would simplify the procedure of legally changing your gender. The regulation is sponsored by Europe’s first transgender lawmaker, Anna Grodzka, and gets rid of a process that required a transgender person to sue their parents to change their gender in legal documents.
The number of refugees in the world is growing, now at an all-time high of nearly 60 million people. As wars and persecution continue to rage, refugee camps can’t keep up, and more and more people make the dangerous, often deadly journey to find a better life—especially since donor aid is insufficient and resettlement is painfully slow.
A Russian charity organization has set up monthly screenings at an outdoor movie theater for the city’s sizeable homeless population. The audience votes on what it wants to watch; opening night viewers opted for the 1965 Soviet slapstick film “Operation Y and Shurik’s Other Adventures.”
Peru’s government anthropologists will try to make contact with one of the country’s isolated tribes after its members killed a man from a nearby village in a bow-and-arrow attack, Reuters reports.
The world is facing a refugee crisis of historic proportions–the number of people fleeing war and persecution has risen to 60 million–but there is another, huge population being displaced, again and again. Since 2008, an average of 26.4 million people have been displaced by natural disasters every year.
A drone passed about 100 meters (330 feet) from a Lufthansa airplane carrying 108 passengers as it was preparing to land at Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin Airport today (July 21). The unnerved plane’s crew told air controllers to ”take care of your airspace” according to industry publication The Aviation Herald after spotting the drone at an altitude of about 2500 feet (750m).
Only you can prevent wildfires—but using a drone could make one even worse.
A suspected suicide bombing in the Turkish town of Suruc, near the Syrian border, killed at least 30 people this morning (July 20) and wounded nearly 100 others.
