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Crises from all over the world seemed to be competing to grab the headlines in January: Australia’s devastating bushfires, the impeachment trial in America, Brexit finally becoming reality, and the coronavirus outbreak in China. But Africa, often starved for attention, has a growing crisis of its own: a swarm of locusts, already the largest in […] In the year 1900 Italian civil engineer Gennaro Matrone uncovered a cluster of bodies (73 eventually recovered) under volcanic rubble near the mouth of the Sarno River which flows from Mt. Vesuvius down to the Bay of Naples. This was only a few kilometers from Pompeii and Herculaneum, the twin towns famously buried in lava […] [Sarah Edmondson vs. Keith Raniere] After a highly-publicized trial that resulted in the conviction or guilty pleas of six Nxivm leaders who now await sentencing, they and numerous others are now facing another kind of fight in […] 
The town of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh was once a popular trading post, named for Captain Hiram Cox of the East India Company in the early days of the British Raj, sited on a coast which boasts the longest stretch of sandy beach on the planet. The district was a violently contested no man’s land […] Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says] Months after not being called to testify at the impeachment trial, John Bolton drops a bomb in a book that previews what his testimony would be if […] Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: ‘Take her out’: Recording appears to capture Trump at private dinner saying he wants Ukraine ambassador fired] A few things to keep in mind and reasons this is […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: Constitutional Crabgrass: President Trump’s Defenders Distort the Impeachment Clause] Yesterday I spent a few paragraphs deconstructing Alan Dershowitz’s argument (which he’s expected to make next week on the Senate floor) that “high crimes and misdemeanors” requires “criminal-like conduct,” whatever that’s […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… Whatever the senate impeachment trial winds up being, it appears it will resemble a motion to dismiss more than a trial, since McConnell evidently has 51 votes for a process that won’t permit a vote on witnesses until after the two sides […] 
[Alan Dershowitz] Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: George Conway: Why Trump had to hire this legal odd couple] I was never a Van Halen fan but nevertheless found myself wincing at a video of David Lee Roth in Las Vegas from a few weeks ago. He […] [California’s majestic sequoias are dying early] “Lazarus” is the name given to an iconic specimen of giant sequoia, in the Giant Forest located in Sequoia National Park. These magnificent trees can reach 300 feet (90 meters) during a lifespan that can exceed 3,000 years, and are famously resistant to droughts and fires. Lazarus,more than 2,000 years […] |
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