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Alabama (Yes, Alabama!) Is an Epic Biodiversity Hotspot
This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a sweltering June afternoon, I stood in what was essentially a roadside ditch. Sandwiche…
6h ago
What Do We Really Know About the Microplastics Building Up Inside Us?
This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists have been documenting the presence of microplastics in our ocea…
20h ago
Police Keep Losing Their Jobs For Using Flock Cameras To Stalk People
Flock cameras—solar-powered, automated license plate readers, weighing less than 3 pounds and designed to be unobtrusive—can be found on 80,000 street corners throughout the country. The company behin…
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Assault, Misogyny, Verbal Threats: Records Detail New Allegations Against Rep. Max Miller
In mid-March, two detectives, an Ohio county Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) caseworker, and a Cleveland Clinic physician met on Zoom to discuss how the 2-year-old daughter of a congre…
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How Life Got Better For LA’s World Cup Workers
“I see the federal agents walking. I had one of those ‘Kick ICE out’ buttons, and he looked at me, and he looked at it again. I said, would you like one? I have some extra buttons…He just looked at me…
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The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin Part 2
When the cryptocurrency exchange FTX imploded, customers around the world lost access to their money. Founder Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud and sent to prison. But the story didn’t stop the…
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ICE Contractor Arrested For Shooting Protester
An ICE detention center employee shot a woman on Thursday night after a protest outside an ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado, according to an Aurora Police Department statement released Friday afternoo…
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ICE and DHS’s Growing Record of Deception
Earlier this month, ICE agents in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican man who had lived in the United States for 35 years. ICE claimed Salgado Araujo, who had been dr…
2d ago
Trump’s Primetime Speech Was a Dud. He Could Still Use it to Interfere in the Midterms.
Donald Trump promised “really big news” in his primetime address on election integrity on Thursday night but failed to deliver any. Instead, he recited a laundry list of disinformation and misinformat…
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As America Baked, Team Trump Axed More Than 1,600 Energy Efficiency Web Pages
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As millions of Americans prepare for another brutal heatwave, it’s now harder to f…
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