| On the trail with Cambodia's tarantula hunters
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| The shiny, hairy creatures might make some people run a mile but in the humid jungle of Kampong Thom province, north of Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, tarantula hunting is all in a day's work.
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| We broke down Trump's baffling speech on the "solar wall."
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 In a speech this week in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, President Trump discussed one of his favorite topics: The Wall, which may one day be festooned with "beautiful" solar panels. Let's attempt to understand this, one clause at a time: • "We're thinking about building the wall as a solar wall so it creates energy and pays for itself." A comprehensible, if flawed, premise. • "And this way, Mexico will have to pay much less money and that's good, right? Is that good?" Less is certainly closer to "nothing," which is the amount that Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto has agreed to pay for the wall. • "You're the first group I've told that to." No, you're not. • "Solar wall. Makes sense. Let's see. We're working it out. We'll see. Panels, beautiful. The higher it goes the more valuable it is. Pretty good imagination, right? Good? My idea! So we have a good shot." W H A T • "That's one of the places that solar really does work. The tremendous sun and heat. It really does work there. So we'll see what happens." This ...
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| Cindy washes ashore near Texas-Louisiana border, downgraded, but still major flood threat
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 Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall between Cameron, La., and Port Arthur, Tex., early Thursday morning. It has since been downgraded to a tropical depression, but is expected to unload excessive rainfall as it moves inland, from east Texas to West Virginia through Friday night. Already, sections of the northern Gulf coast have received six to eight inches of […]
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| 10 years later, Canada's only F5 tornado remains in a class of its own
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| It was too serene. Birds were chirping, fluttering in their usual way somewhere just out of view. Mosquitoes were buzzing. The softly rhythmic but nearly continuous rumble of low and deep thunder was one of the only signs of danger. In front of Justin Hobson, however, history danced in a field. A majestic tornado that was almost […]
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10 years later, Canada's only F5 tornado remains in a class of its own
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| Just as John Oliver predicted, a coal tycoon is suing him.
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 The nation's largest privately owned coal company, Murray Energy, just filed a lawsuit against the Last Week Tonight host over the show's recent segment. Oliver had criticized the company's CEO, Robert Murray, for acting carelessly toward miners' safety. Murray Energy's complaint stated that the segment was a "meticulously planned attempt to assassinate the character and reputation" of Murray by broadcasting "false, injurious, and defamatory comments." Oliver shouldn't be too concerned, according to Ken White, a First Amendment litigator at Los Angeles firm, who told the Daily Beast that the complaint was "frivolous and vexatious." The lawsuit is hardly a shocking development. Before the show aired, Oliver received a cease-and-desist letter from the company. He noted that Murray has a history of filing defamation suits against news outlets (most recently, the New York Times). Oliver said in the episode, "I know that you are probably going to sue me, but you know what, I stand by everything I said." This ...
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| Oil will keep flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline — for now.
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 At a Wednesday hearing, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg established a summer timeline for the Standing Rock Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux to submit arguments that the pipeline should be shut down while additional environmental review takes place. Both sides of the lawsuit — which alleges the Army Corps of Engineers violated treaties by permitting construction under Lake Oahe — will be able to submit comments in July and August. That means a decision about shutting down the pipeline could come as early as September, according to Jan Hasselman, the Earthjustice lawyer representing the Standing Rock Sioux. Last week, Boasberg ruled that the Army Corps' previous environmental review was inadequate, sending the agency back to the drawing board to reconsider impacts on fishing, hunting, and environmental justice. At the hearing, Army Corps lawyer Matthew Marinelli declined to give a timeframe on the new review, but said he would offer an update July 17. "The Corps is just starting to grapple with ...
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