Oct 14, 2020 | From Indy Media
Eight years ago, twenty governments around the world commissioned a report on the potential death toll of climate change if it proceeds unmitigated. The study examined all of the ways that climate change can result in mass fatalities, from hunger to heat and...
Oct 14, 2020 | From Indy Media
Courtenay Brown spends her day making grocery runs for others in a football-field-sized maze of narrow aisles and refrigerated enclaves. At the Amazon Fresh unit in a Newark, New Jersey fulfillment center, she works on the outbound ship dock,...
Oct 14, 2020 | From Indy Media
On May 28, Chris Crane, the president and CEO of Fortune 100 energy provider Exelon sent a message to his employees. “Dear Colleagues,” it began. “During these extraordinary times, when many parts of our lives have changed, it’s more...
Oct 14, 2020 | From Indy Media
House Democrats on Tuesday released a major report calling on Congress to overhaul U.S. antitrust law and take action to curtail the power of tech titans Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust spent 16 months...
Oct 14, 2020 | From Indy Media
The United States invaded Afghanistan 19 years ago today, sparking the nation’s longest-running war that has cost tens of thousands of lives and the U.S. about $2 trillion. While the U.S. originally ousted the Taliban as part of a broader anti-terrorism campaign, the...
Oct 14, 2020 | From Indy Media
In a move that could further restrict Iran’s access to humanitarian goods such as food and medicine at a time when the country is being ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration on Thursday imposed punishing new sanctions on the...
