Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns
American Lung Association report comes amid Trump EPA’s expansive rollback of environmental protections Nearly half of children in the United States a...
Heatwaves, floods and wildfires pose rising threat to democracy, report finds
Research shows natural hazards linked to climate crisis disrupted 23 elections in 18 countries in 2024Democracy is under mounting threat from the clim...
Black children in England and Wales almost eight times more likely to be strip-searched than white peers – report
Demographic also overrepresented when police officers use force such as handcuffs, firearms or Tasers, says children’s commissionerBlack children acro...
Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says
The photo deletion comes after an FTC settlement with Clarifai. The company had asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in Clarifai — to share d...
Kremlin forcing big firms to join ‘witch-hunt’ against internet rebels, claims report
Campaigners say banks and web platforms are being told to collect data on customers visiting blocked sitesMajor Russian companies have been conscripte...
‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare, report finds
Growing use of AI tech comes at expense of workers’ rights, protections and pay, report warnsBillion-dollar tech platforms are aggressively pushing fo...
Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says
Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriagesIsraeli soldiers and settlers are using g...
Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report
‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktankEurope’s “stone age” system of booking...
Iran War Live Updates: Iran Declares Strait of Hormuz Closed Again as Ships Report Attacks
Iran reversed course on reopening the strategic waterway, warning it would continue to block transit as long as the U.S. blockade of ships from Irania...
Middle East crisis live: ships report attacks as Iran closes strait of Hormuz; Trump says deal still possible
Iran claims US blockade of ports violates ceasefire, but Trump says: ‘We’re talking to them … they can’t blackmail us’Separate to the Pakistani army c...
