Kenny Stancil

"Workers are more productive than ever, but their pay hasn't kept pace while top 1% wages have skyrocketed," says the Economic Policy Institute.

"The planet is roasting in record heat, forest fires are raging, the Great Salt Lake is drying up, and yet the Forest Service is willing to make all these problems worse by paving the way for more oil production," said one climate campaigner.

"We really could be looking at a very substantial reduction in that horrendous burden of malaria," said one of the researchers involved.

"Republicans and their corporate interest backers have imposed state laws with only one goal: destroy unions and discourage workers from organizing," said the Massachusetts Democrat.

The former U.S. president's authoritarian rhetoric generated alarm, with one historian noting that the term "iron fist" was favored by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and used to describe Germany's Nazi Party.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres endorsed the nuclear watchdog's new report, warning that any damage "to Zaporizhzhia—or to any other nuclear facility in Ukraine—could spell catastrophe."

"This special master opinion is so bad it's hard to know where to begin," said one legal scholar.

"The response to a water crisis can't be turning the city water supply into a for-profit industry."