While the climate crisis is affecting temperatures everywhere, Alaska’s temps are rising at twice the global average. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Last week, Alaska issued its first-ever heat advisory as temperatures...
A fight involving machetes at a Melbourne shopping centre has prompted an Australian state to fast-track the country’s first-ever ban on the weapon’s sale. The ban – to start in Victoria this Wednesday, instead of September – comes after two gangs attacked each other at Northland shopping centre in Preston on Sunday afternoon. A man,...