Health & Lifestyle

Leg tie downs on the gurney in the execution room at the Oregon State Penitentiary, in Salem, Ore. (AP/Rick Bowmer)
(REPORT) — Texas on Tuesday sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for what it says is an “unreasonable delay” in deciding whether to allow the delivery of execution drugs from India. The lawsuit comes more than 17 months after the FDA seized 1,000 vials of sodium thiopental at a Houston airport.

Smoke billows out of the windows of a car used in a campaign by the Colorado Department of Transportation to fight stoned driving during a demonstration in southeast Denver. (AP/David Zalubowski)

Bee populations have been in decline across the world for a number of years, but the reason for this drop off is hotly disputed.
Some scientists and NGOs have pinned the blame on pesticides known as neonicotinoids.
Meanwhile, the chemical companies which make neonics have said the parasitic mite Varroa Destructor is harming bees.

A law enforcement officer speaks to a protester against the Dakota Access Pipeline through a wall of razor wire on the Backwater Bridge over Cantapeta Creek on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 8, 2016. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

Former police officer and medical marijuana patient, Larry Smith.(Image: screenshot from Riding With Larry)

President-elect Donald Trump waves to supporters during a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
(ANALYSIS) — President-elect Donald J. Trump has long pledged to undertake a profound policy shift on climate change from the low-carbon course President Obama made a cornerstone of his eight years in the White House.

President Barack Obama walks past oil and gas pipelines during an appearance at the TransCanada Stillwater Pipe Yard in Cushing, Okla. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
NEW YORK — (Analysis) It’s rather easy, and undoubtedly necessary, to lambast President-elect Donald Trump and his team of corporate parasites who will soon head nearly every key agency in the U.S. government.

An unidentified man buys crack cocaine, right hand, and powdered cocaine. The Albuquerque Police Department has been manufacturing crack for use in undercover buy-bust operations. (AP/Felipe Dana)

MINNEAPOLIS — For almost three years, the residents of Flint, Michigan, have had poison running through their pipes.
The city’s water supply has been tainted by lead and other dangerous pollutants since the city started drawing its water from the polluted Flint River in April of 2014 in an effort to cut costs in the economically depressed city.