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New York, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island limit who has the right to carry a weapon in public.

Toggle open close The Declaration of Independence cataloged the ways in which King George III infringed upon American liberties. Among King George’s offenses listed in the Declaration was “Transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.” The king claimed the authority to seize American colonists and force them to stand trial in Great Britain for criminal offenses allegedly committed in America. Almost 250 years later, another foreign tribunal—the International Criminal Court (ICC), located in The Hague in the Netherlands—is working toward issuing arrest warrants ...

NationofChange A court has ruled that the EPA must ban the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos—or prove its safety. , a project of the Independent Media Institute. A federal appeals court has ruled that unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can prove that the pesticide chlorpyrifos is safe, it must be banned. The chemical, which has been widely used on agricultural crops for more than 50 years, has been linked to neurological development issues in children, with mounting evidence implicating its role in autism, ADHD, motor and loss of IQ. In the 2-to-1 ruling o...

A pesticide linked to brain damage in children could finally be banned (Photo credit: IFPRI/Flickr) Killing bugs, killing us: "Over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used in the United States each year," writes Michael C.R. Alavanja, an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute. "As a consequence; it has been estimated that as many as 25 million agricultural workers worldwide experience unintentional pesticide poisonings each year." A federal appeals court has ruled that unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can prove that the pesticide chlorpyrifos is safe,...

King George’s offenses included “Transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.” Back then, the king presumed to have the authority to seize American colonists and prosecute them in Great Britain. America went to war to end that practice and other injustices. Fast-forward to about 20 years ago, when Congress passed the American Service-members’ Protection Act of 2002 in anticipation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court entering into force. Congress was concerned that U.S. armed forces deployed across the globe could be dragged in front of the I...