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The Cuts in Trump’s Budget You Haven’t Heard About
Tiny agencies helping communities that teeter on the edge of poverty would disappear.
Comey Hearing Confirms Counter-Intel Investigation Into Trump Campaign; No Evidence of Trump’s Wiretap Claim
FBI Director James Comey provided few other details about the inquiry.
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Arkansas Is Trying Again to Prevent Whistleblowers From Exposing Cruelty to Animals
Dangerous “ag gag” bills, aim to criminalize whistleblowers and have been controversial for years.
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While One Louisiana Town’s Lead-Tainted Water System Is Replaced, Dozens of Others Deteriorate
“No one in America should have to live that way.”
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Repeal and Replace: The True Cost of Repealing Obamacare
“Call it Obamacare, Trumpcare, just keep our health insurance.”
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Climate Change Is Making Kenya’s Droughts More Severe
Kenya's current severe drought, exacerbated by the recent La Nina, has left over two million people in Kenya without enough to eat.
New Orleans’ Ninth Ward Fights Freeway Through Historic Black Neighborhood
New Orleans residents are fighting a racist freeway project that would damage the community and uproot families.
As Trump Slashes EPA, Worry Over the Fate of an Agency Doing Similar Work
The work of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is at risk.
Suppliers of Lowe’s in the US and Walmart in Brazil Linked to Slave Labor in the Amazon
Slave labor-analogous conditions were revealed by investigation of logging camps in Para, Brazil.
Republican Legislators Push for Cities to Be Treated as “Tenants of the State“
Right-wing corporate interests are pushing state legislatures to curtail the progressive power of city governments.