From 1999 to 2018, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA reported 11,992 pipeline ‘incidents,’ with 600 in 2018 alone. — The U.S. has an estimated 439,000 miles of unregulated pipelines, enough to circle the earth 17 times, and unsuspecting people like three-year-old Delaney Tercero, who lost her life to a pipeline explosion in 2018, are the ones being put at risk. …

Finnish owned Nokia is sending cell phone data packages to a Chinese server for an unknown reason. A report from the Norweigan Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) reveals that some Nokia 7 phones are secretly sending personal data to a server in China. The report, published on NRKbeta, stemmed from a tip the company received by a man who monitored his traffic on his Nokia 7 plus phone and…

“I think this is clearly a response to what you learned through freedom of information requests… They did not like to have to disclose that information. This is an effort to prevent that in the future.” Senate Bill 2209 (SB 2209) in North Dakota, a seemingly nondescript amendment to North Dakota’s open records law, would shroud pipelines in a veil of secrecy and make records related to pipeline projects exempt from disclosure requirements.

“I don’t want to [have surgery], to be honest. However, I have to just because it is a requirement…I feel pressured to be operated on — so terrible.” In Japan, any transgender individual appealing for the legal recognition of a gender change must undergo a psychiatric evaluation and forced sterilization. The discriminatory practices of Japan’s Gender Identity Disorder Special Cases (GID) Act is detailed in an 84-page report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) released on Tuesday.

“Why are we violating the law to include any question whatsoever in the 2020 census?” asked Ocasio-Cortez. On Thursday U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testified in front of a House Oversight and Reform Committee in regards to the Commerce Department’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. While Ross struggled for much of the hearing to defend his claim that the citizenship question was…

Malaysian investigators work to clean up from a chemical waste dump and find the responsible parties. Fumes from chemical waste dumped in a river in the southern Malaysian state of Johor forced the closure of 111 schools on Thursday and sent hundreds of people to the hospital, with at least eight in intensive care. …

“Legalizing marijuana is the smart thing to do and the right thing to do in order to advance justice and equality for every American.” A bill known as the Marijuana Justice Act which was first introduced in 2017 by U.S. Senator Cory Booker to legalize marijuana at the federal level was reintroduced on February 28, 2019, by Booker and Rep. Barbara Lee, Co-Chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, and Rep. Ro Khanna.

Once again, the United States government has been caught tracking and keeping a database of “agitators” and “organizers.” On Wednesday, NBC San Diego published leaked documents which showed that the U.S. government was tracking and keeping a database of journalists and activists working with or covering the migrant caravans at the U.S.-Mexico border. The documents came from a whistleblower at the Department of Homeland Security and included screenshots…

While Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress on Wednesday had multiple explosive moments, it also proved the U.S. has a formidable new leader in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In less than two full months as a United States congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has shown a fearlessness at committee hearings to call it, very bluntly, as she sees it and a preference for intelligent, thought-out lines of questioning over ineffective displays of partisan lecturing. And today at the Michael…