Monsanto is on the attack.
In its fight to keep its blockbuster weedkiller glyphosate on the European market, the American agrichemical giant has spent the last six months fighting accusations that it suppressed negative findings or even ghostwrote key research about whether the herbicide causes cancer.
Now the company is opening a new front with evidence it says debunks the only appraisal by a major world body to label glyphosate as carcinogenic.
Monsanto attempts takedown of agency linking its weedkiller to cancer
Trump on USS John S. McCain collision that left 10 missing: 'That's too bad'
President Donald Trump on Sunday called the collision between the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain and a tanker that left at least 10 sailors missing “too bad” before tweeting support for the sailor's families.
“That’s too bad,” the president said when asked about the incident, according to a pool report.
He later tweeted: "Thoughts & prayers are w/ our @USNavy sailors aboard the #USSJohnSMcCain where search & rescue efforts are underway," linking to an official Navy statement on the ongoing search efforts.
TVNL Comment: When you elect a clown, expect a circus.
Trump administration halts research on mountaintop removal coal mining
The Trump administration has ordered researchers to stop work on an independent evaluation of potential health effects from mountaintop removal coal mining.
The Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM) last year, under then-President Barack Obama, had commissioned the research into the possible connections between certain health risks and living near current or former surface mining sites in Appalachia.
But the agency sent a letter Friday to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which it had contracted to do the independent review, asking it to stop its work immediately.
TVNL Comment: This is an outrage. People are dying so that others can profit. Donald Trump is an evil influence on this country and the world.
Trump nominee: Same-sex marriage could lead to legalizing pedophilia
President Trump's nominee for the top science position at the Department of Agriculture, has argued that the legalization of same-sex marriages could lead to legalized pedophilia, CNN's KFile reported on Monday.
Sam Clovis made the comments on his conservative radio show and in an op-ed in a conservative blog in separate incidents ranging from 2011 and 2015, according to the news network's investigative unit.
Texas university removes 'white supremacy' statues overnight
The University of Texas at Austin removed the statues of three Confederate-era figures from a main area on campus on Monday, saying they had become symbols of white supremacy and that they were taken down overnight to avoid confrontations.
Violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12 when white nationalists protesting against the planned removal of a statue of Confederate military leader Robert E. Lee clashed with anti-racism demonstrators. One woman was killed when a suspected white nationalist drove his car into a crowd.
Secret Service depletes funds to pay agents because of Trump's frequent travel, large family
The Secret Service can no longer pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded protective mission – in large part due to the sheer size of President Trump's family and efforts necessary to secure their multiple residences up and down the East Coast.
Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex" Alles, in an interview with USA TODAY, said more than 1,000 agents have already hit the federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances that were meant to last the entire year.
10 missing after US Navy destroyer collides with merchant ship off Singapore
There were 10 sailors missing and five injured, the Navy said. "Four of the injured were medically evacuated by a Republic of Singapore navy Puma helicopter to a hospital in Singapore for non-life-threatening injuries," the U.S. Navy said in a statement. "The fifth injured sailor does not require further medical attention."
Ohio Judge Shot Outside Courthouse in Apparent Ambush-Style Attack
n Ohio judge was shot in an apparent ambush-style attack on his way into a local courthouse on Monday morning, according to Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department and NBC News affiliate WTOV.
Around 8 a.m., Judge Joseph J. Bruzzese, Jr. was attacked by two suspects as he made his way into the Jefferson County Courthouse in Steubenville, City Manager James Mavromatis told reporters.
Bruzzese was walking through a narrow alley toward the courthouse when the shots were fired, Mavromatis said.
Jerry Lewis, Comedy Legend, Dies at 91
Jerry Lewis, the brash slapstick comic who teamed with Dean Martin in the 1950s and later starred in “The Nutty Professor” and “The Bellboy” before launching the Muscular Dystrophy telethon, has died in Las Vegas. He was 91.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John Katsilometes reported that he died at his home at 9:15 a.m. and his agent confirmed the news.
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