Author: Erin Elizabeth

Bayer is doing damage control after suffering losses caused by U.S. lawsuits over claims its weedkiller glyphosate causes cancer. On Friday, the company said it would invest $5.6 billion in pesticide research. Bayer also promised to lower its environmental impact by 30% through 2030 by means such as practicing more precise and more careful application of its chemicals to crops. The move was likely prompted by Bayer’s shares hitting a seven-year low after a couple in California was awarded over $2 billion dollars last month, in the largest-ever U.S. jury award over claims the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup causes cancer....

Keith Raniere was arrested in March 2019 and indicted on a variety of charges related to a secret society within Nxivm, which included sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and conspiracy to commit forced labor. He has been in federal custody in Brooklyn. His trial began in early May, and it is likely the case is heading to the jury today. Ranier pleaded not guilty to all charges. His defense attorney has argued his relationships with Nxivm followers were consensual. For the past six weeks, he has been on trial in a New York federal court accused of creating an...

Former Tennessee Pastor David Richards received a light sentence after being convicted of repeatedly raping his fourteen-year-old adopted daughter. After all, nothing says “good Christian man” like rape and incest. Richards, who is also a former caseworker with Smoky Mountain Children’s home in Sevierville, TN, was found guilty in Knox County by a jury of five men and seven women in February 2019 on nine felony counts, including rape, incest and sexual battery by an authority figure concerning Amber Richards, his (then) 14-year-old adopted daughter. Judge Steven Sword, in what many feel is a disgraceful miscarriage of justice, sentenced...