Brett Kavanaugh has recently been accused of sexual assault that took place when he was in high school. This accusation seems to be enough to delay his senate appointment for now.

When President Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate agreement, it was clear that his administration didn’t seem to want to fight climate change. Despite this, there are a few leaders in the US that are willing to do something including the Governor of California Jerry Brown.

House Speaker Paul Ryan says that he will not back the effort of his conservative house colleagues to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein is overseeing Mueller’s investigation into the Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Starbucks has announced that it’s going “strawless.” The company said that it will begin a process of phasing out plastic straws from all its stores by the year 2020. The strategy will help the Starbucks ditch the over 1 billion straws used in its stores each year.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed on Thursday a new data privacy legislation that’s designed to give consumers more control over how companies collect their personal data. The data privacy bill was opposed by major Silicon Valley companies including Google.

Uber has announced that tests for its self-driving cars in Arizona have been canceled. The company will lay off 300 workers as a result, most of whom are vehicle operators. The decision comes barely two months after an autonomous car owned by Uber hit and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona.