Un Chief To Urge World Leaders To Prevent Sexual Abuse

Starting next year, there won’t be any police officers in Morrison. Instead, this tiny town of 400 residents — home to the busy Red Rocks Amphitheatre and a steady stream of tourists window-shopping on Bear Creek Avenue — will contract with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office for round-the-clock law enforcement services. The new arrangement is set to take effect on Jan.

For the past month, Vice co-founder and CEO Shane Smith has had a remarkable number of questions, which he’s posed in a new interview show titled, appropriately, “Shane Smith Has Questions.” The show, which airs on YouTube and on Vice’s cable TV channel, is clearly meant to be a return to form for both Smith and the company after its bankruptcy, sale to a hedge fund, the layoff of hundreds of employees, and what Smith has recently described as a regrettable, years-long foray into wokeism. If Smith has questions, so might viewers, including about his aims and standards of fact-checking. “Now, more than ever, the truth is unclear,” Smith proclaims in an intro sequence.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is one of the Earth’s last intact ecosystems. Vast and little-known, this 19 million-acre expanse along Alaska’s north slope is home to some of the region’s last remaining polar bears, as well as musk oxen, wolvesm and wolverines.

It’s not Ukraine, or Russia, or even the United States.

Now that Joe Biden has flung the presidential pardoning doors wide open, he might as well lean into his powers.

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