After less than a minute of debate, the Senate gave final passage Tuesday to a controversial bill to reinstate the firing squad as an execution method. The Senate voted 18-10 to pass HB11, and sent it to Gov. Gary Herbert for his signature. It earlier passed the House 39-34, with just one vote to spare after intense debate that focused mainly on whether to abolish the death penalty.
The Senate voted 18-10 to pass HB11, and sent it to Gov. Gary Herbert for his signature. It earlier passed the House 39-34, with just one vote to spare after intense debate that focused mainly on whether to abolish the death penalty.
Three years ago, a Franklin County judge declared Johnston innocent, allowing him to seek compensation from the state, but an appeals court reversed the ruling. Arguing a series of technicalities, the state says because Johnston failed in an earlier attempt to prove wrongful imprisonment, he isn’t eligible to try again.
Gov. Kate Brown will sign controversial legislation extending Oregon's nascent low-carbon fuels program, testing Republican threats over a standoff on transportation funding and setting aside nagging complaints the program is tainted by the scandal that deposed her predecessor. [...] The program extended by SB 324—which requires distributors to lower the carbon "intensity" of vehicle fuel by 10 percent over the next decade—was initially approved in 2009 under then-Gov. Ted Kulongoski.
The program extended by SB 324—which requires distributors to lower the carbon "intensity" of vehicle fuel by 10 percent over the next decade—was initially approved in 2009 under then-Gov. Ted Kulongoski.
Updated: University Of Texas Frat Bans Mexicans, Interracial Dating, And 'Fagetry', by librarisingnsf NY Daily News Denounces GOP Senate as "Traitors" on their Front Page (Trending Worldwide), by Billionaires for Wealthcare Anthony Hill: Georgia Police Kill Unarmed NAKED man. Now what?, by Lollardfish
NY Daily News Denounces GOP Senate as "Traitors" on their Front Page (Trending Worldwide), by Billionaires for Wealthcare
Anthony Hill: Georgia Police Kill Unarmed NAKED man. Now what?, by Lollardfish
Turns out the most offensive thing about “Blurred Lines” isn’t its questionable lyrics, the female (and goat) nudity in its video, or Robin Thicke’s all-around smarminess: a jury determined Tuesday that 2013’s song of summer did, in fact, copy too much Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.” Thicke and Pharrell Williams owe Gaye’s family $7.3 million. [...] “Blurred Lines” was no. 1 on the Billboard charts for 10 weeks straight. Court documents reveal that the song raked in almost $16.5 million in profits; Williams and Thicke earned over $5 million apiece.
“Blurred Lines” was no. 1 on the Billboard charts for 10 weeks straight. Court documents reveal that the song raked in almost $16.5 million in profits; Williams and Thicke earned over $5 million apiece.
The widely discredited theory that natural solar cycles are driving global warming has been part of the national conversation surrounding climate change for years, and continues to stoke confusion in the public mind. Climate contrarian Wei-Hock (Willie) Soon has been one of the most influential promoters of that idea. [...] Soon's theory has been debunked by several scientific committees, including the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Academy of Sciences. Satellites have measured no increase in solar output in the past half century, meaning it "isn't even remotely credible to argue that solar output can be responsible for the anomalous warming of recent decades," said Michael Mann, a climate scientist as Pennsylvania State University.
Soon's theory has been debunked by several scientific committees, including the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Academy of Sciences. Satellites have measured no increase in solar output in the past half century, meaning it "isn't even remotely credible to argue that solar output can be responsible for the anomalous warming of recent decades," said Michael Mann, a climate scientist as Pennsylvania State University.