PARIS (AFP) — Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.There is growing evidence that humans consume huge numbers of the tiny particles, formed when larger pieces of plastic break down, but very little is known about the knock-on health consequences. Researchers in Ireland looked at the rate of microplastic release in 10 types of baby bottles or accessories made from polypropylene, the most commonly used plastic for food containers.They followed official...…PARIS (AFP) — Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.There is growing evidence that humans consume huge numbers of the tiny particles, formed when larger pieces of plastic break down, but very little is known about the knock-on health consequences. Researchers in Ireland looked at the rate of microplastic release in 10 types of baby bottles or accessories made from polypropylene, the most commonly used plastic for food containers.They followed official...WW…

LOS ANGELES (CN) — As California battles dozens of large wildfires and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday the state is maintaining its focus on eradicating homelessness by distributing the first community grants under its $600 million program to convert motels, hotels and vacant apartment buildings into long-term housing for homeless people.As part of efforts to curb Covid-19 infections among the homeless, Newsom this year launched Project Roomkey, a program that uses state funds to place homeless people, or people at risk of becoming homeless, into hotel...…LOS ANGELES (CN) — As California battles dozens of large wildfires and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday the state is maintaining its focus on eradicating homelessness by distributing the first community grants under its $600 million program to convert motels, hotels and vacant apartment buildings into long-term housing for homeless people.As part of efforts to curb Covid-19 infections among the homeless, Newsom this year launched Project Roomkey, a program that uses state funds to place homeless people, or people at risk of becoming homeless, into hotel...WW…

(CN) — California’s measures aimed at combating the spread of coronavirus unfairly restrict residents’ right to peacefully protest and stifle free speech, two individuals claim in a federal lawsuit filed Monday.California residents Ron Givens and Chris Bish claim in their that measures enacted by Governor Gavin Newsom and other state officials to deal with Covid-19 are a “gross abuse of power.”The two claim that the California Highway Patrol has denied their requests for permits to protest on the state Capitol grounds and are asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of...…(CN) — California’s measures aimed at combating the spread of coronavirus unfairly restrict residents’ right to peacefully protest and stifle free speech, two individuals claim in a federal lawsuit filed Monday.California residents Ron Givens and Chris Bish claim in their that measures enacted by Governor Gavin Newsom and other state officials to deal with Covid-19 are a “gross abuse of power.”The two claim that the California Highway Patrol has denied their requests for permits to protest on the state Capitol grounds and are asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of...WW…

MANHATTAN (CN) — Late last month, President Trump made a pair of changes to the census in rapid succession, issuing a memo excluding undocumented immigrants from political apportionment and bumping up the deadline for in-person interviews. Those late-breaking changes led a federal judge Wednesday to fast-track the schedule of a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s new policy. “It is what it is,” U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman told attorneys for the government, perhaps unintentionally echoing the words Trump recently told an Axios reporter in describing the...…MANHATTAN (CN) — Late last month, President Trump made a pair of changes to the census in rapid succession, issuing a memo excluding undocumented immigrants from political apportionment and bumping up the deadline for in-person interviews. Those late-breaking changes led a federal judge Wednesday to fast-track the schedule of a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s new policy. “It is what it is,” U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman told attorneys for the government, perhaps unintentionally echoing the words Trump recently told an Axios reporter in describing the...WW…

(CN) — A warming planet will not shake off centuries of human-caused pollution overnight, according to a new study that cautions reductions in human-caused emissions now will take decades to show detectable changes in global surface temperatures. While the helped to mitigate global carbon emissions, policymakers will need to be patient with the follow-through, according to researchers from the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, also known as .“This paper is about managing our expectations,” the study led by Bjørn Samset from CICERO in Oslo, Norway,...…(CN) — A warming planet will not shake off centuries of human-caused pollution overnight, according to a new study that cautions reductions in human-caused emissions now will take decades to show detectable changes in global surface temperatures. While the helped to mitigate global carbon emissions, policymakers will need to be patient with the follow-through, according to researchers from the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, also known as .“This paper is about managing our expectations,” the study led by Bjørn Samset from CICERO in Oslo, Norway,...WW…

ST. LOUIS (CN) — Almost two years after arguments were heard in the case, the Eighth Circuit four Arkansas laws banning certain kinds of abortion procedures.The regulations passed by Arkansas’ Republican-dominated Legislature in 2017 impose criminal penalties on doctors who perform dilation-and-evacuation procedures. The laws also alter the standards for proper disposal of dead fetuses.Doctors must provide fetal tissue from minor patients’ abortions to law enforcement, for instance, and must obtain a patient’s entire pregnancy history before performing an abortion.Planned Parenthood and the...…ST. LOUIS (CN) — Almost two years after arguments were heard in the case, the Eighth Circuit four Arkansas laws banning certain kinds of abortion procedures.The regulations passed by Arkansas’ Republican-dominated Legislature in 2017 impose criminal penalties on doctors who perform dilation-and-evacuation procedures. The laws also alter the standards for proper disposal of dead fetuses.Doctors must provide fetal tissue from minor patients’ abortions to law enforcement, for instance, and must obtain a patient’s entire pregnancy history before performing an abortion.Planned Parenthood and the...WW…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — A black man who served as a scapegoat for a lynch mob in 1920 received Minnesota’s first-ever posthumous pardon Friday, 100 years after his conviction was used to justify the murder of three of his co-workers.After a mob lynched three black circus workers in the northern industrial center of Duluth on June 15, 1920, their co-worker Max Mason was arrested and tried for the rape of a white woman, Irene Tusken.Jerry Blackwell, of the Minneapolis firm Blackwell Burke, argued to Minnesota’s pardon board Friday that the rape was fictitious and Mason had been arrested to...…ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — A black man who served as a scapegoat for a lynch mob in 1920 received Minnesota’s first-ever posthumous pardon Friday, 100 years after his conviction was used to justify the murder of three of his co-workers.After a mob lynched three black circus workers in the northern industrial center of Duluth on June 15, 1920, their co-worker Max Mason was arrested and tried for the rape of a white woman, Irene Tusken.Jerry Blackwell, of the Minneapolis firm Blackwell Burke, argued to Minnesota’s pardon board Friday that the rape was fictitious and Mason had been arrested to...WW…

(CN) — The Trump administration announced plans to allow oil and gas development on a national monument that is home to endangered species and unspoiled wilderness stashed in between the most populous parts of the state. The Bureau of Land Management approved a new oil well and pipeline in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, located in the southeastern part of San Luis Obispo County about four hours north of Los Angeles. “The selected alternative is consistent with the intent of [Mineral Leasing Act] to promote the mining of oil and gas on the public domain,” the BLM said in its...…(CN) — The Trump administration announced plans to allow oil and gas development on a national monument that is home to endangered species and unspoiled wilderness stashed in between the most populous parts of the state. The Bureau of Land Management approved a new oil well and pipeline in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, located in the southeastern part of San Luis Obispo County about four hours north of Los Angeles. “The selected alternative is consistent with the intent of [Mineral Leasing Act] to promote the mining of oil and gas on the public domain,” the BLM said in its...WW…

HOUSTON (CN) — A Mexican woman sued prison contractor CoreCivic on Wednesday, claiming a man in street clothes beat and raped her in its Houston detention center and she gave birth to his daughter after she was deported. After a three-month incarceration at the Houston Processing Center, Jane Doe was set to be sent back to Mexico on June 2, 2018, she says in her filed in Houston.The Houston site is one of eight CoreCivic prisons where the company houses undocumented immigrants under contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.“We are subject to multiple levels of oversight,...…HOUSTON (CN) — A Mexican woman sued prison contractor CoreCivic on Wednesday, claiming a man in street clothes beat and raped her in its Houston detention center and she gave birth to his daughter after she was deported. After a three-month incarceration at the Houston Processing Center, Jane Doe was set to be sent back to Mexico on June 2, 2018, she says in her filed in Houston.The Houston site is one of eight CoreCivic prisons where the company houses undocumented immigrants under contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.“We are subject to multiple levels of oversight,...WW…

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge on Wednesday barred anti-abortion activist David Daleiden and his associates from ever entering another Planned Parenthood conference.U.S. District Judge William Orrick’s follows a this past November in favor of Planned Parenthood. Jurors found Daleiden, fellow activist Sandra Merritt, his anti-abortion group the Center for Medical Progress, and two other collaborators violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and conspired to violate state laws in Maryland, California and Florida against fraud, breach of exhibitor...…SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge on Wednesday barred anti-abortion activist David Daleiden and his associates from ever entering another Planned Parenthood conference.U.S. District Judge William Orrick’s follows a this past November in favor of Planned Parenthood. Jurors found Daleiden, fellow activist Sandra Merritt, his anti-abortion group the Center for Medical Progress, and two other collaborators violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and conspired to violate state laws in Maryland, California and Florida against fraud, breach of exhibitor...WW…