Seven years later, the Salmon River is still running orange, but it's not alone in its dramatic change of hue. More than 200 formerly clear streams and rivers across the Brooks Range have gone orange and cloudy, most within the last 10 years. While this phenomenon isn't entirely new to science, the sudden uptick in orange waterways is thought to be the result of thawing permafrost, a phenomenon that is accelerating with climate change. The rusty influx comes from iron, once trapped in frozen ground but now released by warming earth and flooding into the watershed. Alongside it, scientists have detected toxic levels of metals like copper and zinc"all of which are threatening wildlife, people, and ways of life that have persisted for millennia.
Russian troops launched two attacks on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia on Feb. 1, injuring at least nine people, including a child, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Around noon, Russia struck a maternity hospital, injuring at least six people. Among the injured were two women who were being examined when the Russian attack happened, Fedorov said. Later in the day, a Russian drone attacked one of the districts in Zaporizhzhia, injuring two women and a four-year-old boy, the governor said. He shared footage from the sites showing a damaged building with shattered windows and rising smoke, as well as houses damaged in a separate attack. "The strike on the maternity hospital is yet another proof of a war waged against life," the governor said.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday in Milan to protest the deployment of U.S. ICE agents during the upcoming Winter Olympics, unbothered by the fact that agents would be stationed in a control room and not operating on the streets. read more
President Donald Trump's administration is in need of prosecutors to help his "anti-crime agenda" and they're being mocked for taking to X to fill the positions. "If you are a lawyer, are interested in being an AUSA, and support President Trump and anti-crime agenda, DM me," Chad Mizelle, acting general counsel for Department of Homeland Security and former Department of Justice chief of staff under Trump, wrote on X on Saturday. "We need good prosecutors. And DOJ is hiring across the country. Now is your chance to join the mission and do good for our country."
Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. read more
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The Nazis used Jews to police the ghettos for the SS.
Authoritarian regimes do this on purpose so they can point at them and say "See! We're not racist!"