From the Trenches World Report

RT

Agrochemical giant Monsanto and US farm groups are suing California to stop the state from issuing cancer warnings on the company’s herbicide glyphosate, which farmers use on genetically engineered crops.

California has added glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, to a list of cancer-causing chemicals. The state acted after the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recently ruled glyphosate a carcinogen. IARC said that along with other Monsanto chemicals Roundup could cause Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, and cancer.   Continue reading “Monsanto sues California over weed killer cancer warnings”

RT

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is launching a secret US government payload into space atop a Falcon 9 rocket – known only by its codename ‘Zuma.’

The covert haul is due to launch between 8pm and 10pm EST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. But, as the launch site’s website puts it, “No other information is available about this mission.”   Continue reading “SpaceX mystery: What is the US govt sending into orbit?”

Mail.com

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Nearly 50 years after he was arrested in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse, a Louisiana man was preparing to walk out of prison on Wednesday, his life sentence and conviction overturned by a judge who said the case against him was “weak at best.”

Authorities withheld evidence decades ago that could have exonerated Wilbert Jones, now 65, State District Judge Richard Anderson said. His lawyer, Emily Maw, praised “the extraordinary strength” of a man “who has spent over 16,000 days in prison for something he didn’t do,” and would nevertheless “come out with a faith in God and in humanity.”   Continue reading “Lawyer: Freedom nears for man wrongfully convicted in 1974”

Mail.com

RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Calif. (AP) — The gunman behind a rampage in Northern California was out on bail charged with stabbing a neighbor, others had complained about him firing hundreds of rounds from his house, and he had been the subject of a domestic violence call the day before the attack.

Yet Kevin Neal was free and able to use a semi-automatic rifle and two handguns Tuesday to shoot 14 people, killing four, in seven different locations across his rural community, including an elementary school, before he died in a shootout with police.   Continue reading “California gunman who killed 4, wounded 10 was out on bail”

AOL

A North Korean state newspaper has issued a death sentence for U.S. President Donald Trump after he insulted Kim Jong-Un during his recent trip to Asia, according to the Guardian.

An editorial in the ruling party’s newspaper Rodong Sinmun declared Trump a “criminal” and said their nation’s people had sentenced him to death because of the unflattering way he talks about their country and their supreme leader.    Continue reading “North Korean state newspaper announces ‘death sentence’ for Trump”

Sputnik

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US Senate confirmed Steven Bradbury, who justified torture techniques during President George W. Bush’s term, to serve as the General Counsel of the Transportation Department.

The Senate approved of Bradbury’s nomination with a 50-47 vote on Tuesday.

Bradbury has been criticized for authoring memos justifying waterboarding and other forms of torture during the Bush administration. He served as the acting head of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel from 2005-09.   Continue reading “US Senate Confirms Trump Nominee Who Justified Torture”

Collective Evolution – by Alexa Erickson

Pedophilia has become a huge topic of discussion over recent weeks as not only have sexual abuse outings been taking place in Hollywood, but the exposure of pedophilia in Hollywood and amongst the elite is becoming more common.

The reality of child molestation by the Roman Catholic Church has surfaced time and time again, and yet, somehow, it continues to happen. If you watched the movie Spotlight, perhaps you have an idea of just how things are going down. But let’s break it down to date.   Continue reading “Where Do Church Donations Go? The Catholic Church Has Used Almost $4 Billion Settling Child Molestation Lawsuits”

Chicago Sun Times

A man killed Tuesday — marking the city’s 600th homicide this year — was among five people shot in a 7-hour span of gun violence on the South and West sides.

Three men were shot, one of them fatally, when someone opened fire from a light-colored vehicle shortly after 4 p.m. in the 500 block of South Lockwood in the West Side Austin neighborhood. A 25-year-old man was was shot multiple times in the head and pronounced dead at the scene less than an hour later, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. His name has not been released, pending notification of his family. A 32-year-old man was shot in the groin and buttocks, and a 28-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the head. Both of their conditions were stabilized at Stroger Hospital.   Continue reading “Man killed in year’s 600th homicide among 5 shot Tuesday in Chicago”

Signs of the Times – Nicole Goodkind, Newsweek

That’s rich! Republicans suddenly believe that one percenters are barely struggling to be in the middle class, party officials revealed.

On Thursday, House Republicans issued a fact sheet about their new tax cut plan that referred to Americans earning $450,000 a year as “low- and middle-income” – even though that income level would put those taxpayers in the top 0.5 percent of all individual Americans.    Continue reading “Out of touch: Republican House members think $450K/yr salary is middle class”