Author: Erin Elizabeth

In the middle of the night (Tuesday morning in Japan), a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Japan off the coast of Fukushima, triggering a tsunami alert (a tsunami of 90 centimeters was later detected in Soma Port). Local authorities and the national broadcaster urged residents to remember the experience of 2011 and evacuate to higher ground. Striking at 5:59 a.m. local time and at a depth of 6.2 miles, the quake was an aftershock from 2011, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. From the article: “Workers at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, which was crippled after the record tsunami almost six...

Cannon Ball, ND — Legendary musician and songwriter Neil Young celebrated his 71st birthday on Saturday in the most fitting way possible — by performing for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other water protectors camped to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. “Got my birthday wish today, my girl took me to #StandWithStandingRock,” Young wrote in a Facebook post, referring to his girlfriend, actress and activist Daryl Hannah. Both posted footage of the informal concert to draw attention to the struggle against the insidious pipeline and continued exploitation of Native Americans and Indigenous peoples. Rather than setting up a...

Militarized police in North Dakota are now firing water cannons, concussion grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets on water protectors trapped on a bridge near Cannon Ball. UPDATE: Check out all the videos below, some of which cut off. At one point, the videographer asks CNBC to please look into what they are being sprayed with aerially at night (by crop dusters), a story I broke LAST week. May they all stay safe: Following a brief confrontation with police, in which military vehicles were reportedly set alight and ultimately cleared from the roadway by water protectors, heavily armed police...