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This is the third story in a three-part Mongabay miniseries on the Dutch nitrogen crisis and farmer protests of 2022: The Dutch, and European, green agenda crashes into the continent’s food systems. Read Part One and Part Two. LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands — To a din of mooing and the occasional sound of urine hitting the floor, […]

This is the second story in a three-part Mongabay miniseries on the Dutch nitrogen crisis and farmer protests of 2022: How EU conservation rules shook up Dutch politics. Read Part One here; Part Three will be published soon. LUNTEREN, Netherlands — Jan Dirk’s dairy farm in Lunteren, about a 30-minute drive from De Hoge Veluwe […]

Ulbricht is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole on December 17, 2020, 8:15 40 comments TL;DR: Ross Ulbricht, serving a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for his part in dark web drug marketplace Silk Road, could be granted clemency by Donald Trump. A new report claims the White House counsels office has been reviewing documents related to Ulbrichts case, and the president is considering his name among those consider...

Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road ‘Kingpin’ Asawin Suebsaeng, Adam Rawnsley © Provided by The Daily Beast Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Handout In his final weeks in office before Joe Biden’s inauguration, President Donald Trump is weighing granting clemency to Ross Ulbricht, the founder and former administrator of the world’s most famous darknet drug market, Silk Road, The Daily Beast has learned. According to three people familiar with the matter, ...