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Nearly One in Five Americans Are in Collections for Medical Debt
It’s time to expand Medicare to full coverage for all people in this country.
Bezos’s Space Stunt Got Almost as Much TV Time as Climate Crisis in All of 2020
Morning shows spent 212 minutes on the space trip in one day and 267 minutes on the climate in all 365 days of 2020.
GOP Legislators in Missouri Oppose Vaccine as State Becomes COVID Hotspot
State Rep. Bill Kidd contracted COVID-19 after joking that he didn’t get a vaccine because he’s a Republican.
US Sees Steepest Single-Year Decline in Life Expectancy Since World War II
Black and Latinx people have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic and the resulting fall in life expectancy.
84 Democrats Sign Letter Demanding Civilian Climate Corps in Reconciliation Bill
Advocates have long sought the creation of a Civilian Climate Corps to tackle the climate crisis and create jobs.
FL Newspaper Tells DeSantis to Stop “Auditioning” for Fox News as COVID Spikes
Florida's rate of new COVID cases being reported daily has increased by more than 450 percent in the past four weeks.
Drastic Measures Needed to Curb Plastic Pollution in Oceans by 2050
A journal article and report issued simultaneously describe a challenging path toward reducing plastic pollution.
CO2 Emissions to Reach “All-Time High” as Rich Nations Skimp on Clean Energy
Over the past year, wealthy G7 nations poured tens of billions of dollars more into fossil fuels than renewable energy.
The Delta Variant Is Feasting on the Unvaxxed — and It’s Getting Worse
Donald Trump says vaccine refusal is due to people's distrust of the 2020 election results. Whose fault is that?
Oregon’s Growing Bootleg Fire Is One of 70 Raging in US West Amid Heatwave
The Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon has scorched more than 298,000 acres and is only 22 percent contained.