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This Invasive Disease Carrier Is Showing Up in Places It Really Shouldn’t Be

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood.  Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that people like Tim Moore, district manager of a mosquito control district […]

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In a Mississippi Jail, Inmates Became Weapons

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Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he was a teenager. In a lawsuit, he detailed a jailhouse assault that left him with broken ribs, a broken nose, and two black eyes. But it wasn’t just guards who attacked him. Mack said a group of inmates joined […]

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In a Mississippi Jail, Inmates Became Weapons

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Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he was a teenager. In a lawsuit, he detailed a jailhouse assault that left him with broken ribs, a broken nose, and two black eyes. But it wasn’t just guards who attacked him. Mack said a group of inmates joined […]

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What Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Mean for Two Podcasters With Down Syndrome

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In late April, podcasters Audrey Presby and Jeremy Fraser decided to venture out of their studio in California to head to Washington, DC. It was not the most joyous occasion: Presby and Fraser, both of whom have Down syndrome, were there to plead with House representatives not to vote to pass the sweeping health care […]

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Bill Pulte Is Really Having a Week

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If you had never heard of the Federal Housing Finance Agency—a small niche of the government that oversees much of the mortgage industry—this might be the week that put the FHFA on your radar, all because of its director, a 37-year-old official named Bill Pulte who was this week’s Washington Main Character (Non-Epstein Division). Over […]

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New Docs Show DHS Gathering Drivers’ License Data in Voter Fraud Crusade

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The Trump administration is quietly undertaking an effort to expand a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tool used for citizenship verification to include drivers’ license and passport information—personal data it plans to utilize in its voter fraud crusade. You’ve probably never heard of the DHS system known as SAVE (or Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements), […]

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Scott Wiener Defeated California’s NIMBYs. Can He Fix America’s Housing Crisis?

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For a moment, it looks like California—maybe the whole country!—is doomed. Usually, the last days of a legislative session in Sacramento are a blurry schlep through hundreds of votes as both sides of the Capitol try to get bills onto the governor’s desk. Today, a strikingly pretty Friday in mid-September, it’s time for a bill […]

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Trump Eyes Mining of Pacific Seafloor Near the Marianas Trench

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific, and is nearly doubling the proposed seabed mining area around American Samoa from 18 million acres to 33 million acres, an area […]

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Kash Patel, the FBI’s Agent of Chaos

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This column originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here. This week’s huge news has to be the latest Jeffrey Epstein revelations, a story that intersects with what can only be called the slow public unraveling of Kash Patel’s tenure director as FBI director. Patel, as you might remember, had long crusaded for […]

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Megyn Kelly Suddenly Finds Pedophilia Very Hard to Define

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Megyn Kelly is known for offering absurd takes that nobody asked for. There was her insistence that Santa Claus is white, for example, and her claim that wearing blackface used to not be so bad (that one got her fired from NBC News). Wednesday, on her eponymous SiriusXM show, Kelly picked another hill to die […]

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“They Dragged Her Out in Front of the Kids”: Inside Chicago’s ICE Raid at a Bilingual Daycare

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Video of a daycare raid in Chicago went viral last week, showing armed federal agents dragging a teacher from Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center as children watched in terror. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a press release that agents detained the woman as she fled into her workplace, describing […]

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The Elections Were a Referendum on Energy—And Democrats Won

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On the campaign trail in 2024, President Donald Trump promised to halve Americans’ energy bills by January 2026.  After his win, his administration pushed policies that undoubtedly contributed to their rise. They tried to squash cheap, local energy from renewable sources while bankrolling the dying coal industry. They put tariffs on materials needed to keep […]

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