In today’s issue of Squirrel News, a landmark ruling bars discrimination against LGBT workers in the US, defunding the police begins to materialise drawing from community-based crisis programs, and the tortoise that saved his species from extinction leaves his 800 offspring behind as he retires to his native island.
LGBT workers backed by U.S. Supreme Court in landmark ruling
This 6-3 ruling which bars discrimination based on sexuality or gender in the workplace is crucial, especially at a time when the rights of the transgender community in the U.S. are under siege.
Los Angeles begins transition to more hands-off approach of law-enforcement
As protests in the U.S. campaign for police defunding, in LA a new emergency-response model will use trained specialists rather than LAPD officers for various community issues.
How a U.S. city can provide the blueprints for a transition to a more community-focused model
For the last 31 years, Eugene, Oregon, has operated a community-based crisis program that inhibits police power and dispatches trained, unarmed responders instead,
Footballer uses platform forcing Boris Johnson to make U-turn on free school meals policy
Marcus Rashford, 22, called out the Conservative government in an open letter for their failure to support vulnerable children over the summer holidays.
Japanese scientists spawn 1,700 rainbow trout from a single fish
With the use of stem cells, the university research team hope that this first-ever mass proliferation of rainbow trout could be applied to other marine species like the bluefin tuna.
Drug becomes first ever to cut risk of death from coronavirus in breakthrough medical trial
Dexamethasone, a cheap and readily accessible steroid has been shown to reduce risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators, and by a fifth for those on oxygen.
Researchers unlock secret of communication between queen and worker bees
The extraordinary nature of bees and their hive societies has been further illuminated by research on how the queen bee communicates to the tens of thousands of worker bees.
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