Facebook Disables Accounts of Palestinian Editors

Editors at two of the most widely read Palestinian online publications have had their Facebook accounts disabled. Administrators for the Facebook pages of Quds, which has more than five million “likes,” and Shehab News Agency, which has more than six million, found they could not access their accounts on Friday. Ezz al-Din al-Akhras, a supervisor…

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How to Talk to Your Kids About Charlottesville

The images of terror, violence, and hate that filled our TV screens and news feeds this past weekend from Charlottesville, Virginia, were difficult enough for adults to process; for parents, it elicited all our worst fears. How do we tell our children they live in an imperfect, sometimes frightening world, while still protecting their innocence…

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Sounding 'Death Knell' for Reef, Massive Australian Coal Project Heads Towards Completion

Indian energy giant Adani on Monday achieved a “key milestone” in completing its massive and controversial Carmichael coal mine project in Australia—a project, according to a marine conservation group, “that will super charge climate change and sound the death knell for our Reef.” The achievement comes thanks to Queensland’s Coordinator-General giving “the latest, and final,…

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Viola Davis’s Birthday Message to Her Daughter Is Acceptance Speech-Worthy

Viola Davis, queen of everything great in this world, celebrated her daughter Genesis’s seventh birthday on Sunday. The 51-year old is an incredible actress, humanitarian, and (basically) a professional speech-giver, so we’re not surprised to learn that “world-class mom” also factors into Davis’s skillset. Viola and her actor hubby Julius Tennon, who recently celebrated their…

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This Campaign Aims to Get 250,000 Women to Run for U.S. Elected Positions by 2030

In a world where the gender pay gap in the White House has recently tripled, journalists like Mika Brzezinski are having their physical appearance publicly attacked, and Congressional sleeveless dress code policies are causing controversy, it’s clear that strong female political leaders are more important now than ever before. Enter the nonpartisan organization She Should…

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Local Fury and Health Concerns as Japan Plans to Dump a Million Tons of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean

In a move that has sparked outrage from local residents and dire health warnings from environmentalists, the Japanese government is reportedly planning to release 1.09 million tons of water from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean despite evidence that it contains “radioactive material well above legally permitted levels.” While both the Japanese…

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