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The Shutdown Will Worsen Hunger—Which the Trump Administration Just Stopped Tracking

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal government shutdown is stretching into a second week with no end in sight. As Democrats and Republicans in Congress face a politically charged funding impasse, nutrition experts warn that women and children reliant on federal food assistance funding […]

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Trump’s New Layoffs Hurt Disabled Kids

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Last Friday, all but two senior staff members in the federal Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) received reduction-in-force notices, according to reporting from K-12 Drive. It was part of a scourge of layoffs. 460 people across the Department of Education received RIF notices. That is roughly one in five workers in […]

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Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza

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In December 2023, nearly three months after the October 7 massacre, the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies gathered members of the country’s media. Run out of Tel Aviv University, in a modern building on the campus surrounded by well-kept lawns and native trees, the INSS had a controversial task for the congregated press: Assess […]

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Local Governments Worked Hard to Hedge Against Climate Disaster. Florida Leaders Bigfooted Them.

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Manatee County’s commissioners didn’t expect to be threatened with removal from office for considering two measures meant to enhance disaster resilience in this fast-growing county on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The measures, both amendments to the county’s comprehensive plan, were […]

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Online Sales Are Transforming the Market for Native Artists

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When Marlo Kiyite was 19 and pregnant with her second son, she and her husband, Fitz, moved in with her cousin in Gallup, New Mexico, trying to make ends meet. Her cousin was an artist, a well-known carver of pocket-­sized animals that the Zuni Pueblo call fetishes, and one day, she suggested ­Kiyite give it […]

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The White House Is Already Walking Back Hundreds of Federal Layoffs

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In Donald Trump’s second term, federal workers have gotten used to being fired and re-hired, and, in some cases, even fired again. As one probationary employee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) told me earlier this year, working for this administration is “emotionally very turbulent.” This weekend, scores more federal workers are […]

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Appeals Court: Trump Can’t Deploy National Guard on Chicago’s Streets

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The Trump administration has suffered yet another in its series of recent legal losses—this time over its attempt to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois. On Monday, state and local officials filed a lawsuit over federal officials’ attempt to take over and deploy National Guard troops in Illinois, alleging the move was “unlawful and dangerous.” […]

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Donald Trump’s War on Public Health Enters a New Phase

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Ever since a government shutdown first started to seem like a real possibility, President Donald Trump has been threatening to use an impasse on Capitol Hill as a pretext to go after the people and institutions he doesn’t like. His administration has moved to kill New York City’s biggest infrastructure project, announced his intent to […]

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Immigrants on the Line

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Mackenson Remy didn’t plan to bypass security when he drove into the parking lot of a factory in Greeley, Colorado. He’d never been there before. All he knew was this place had jobs—lots of jobs.  Remy is originally from Haiti, and in 2023, he’d been making TikTok videos about job openings in the area for […]

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Two Top Scientists Tackle Trump’s Idiocracy

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This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the 1995 book The Demon Haunted World, the astronomer Carl Sagan warned that the United States was turning its back on science, and that the consequences would be dire. Near the start of their new book, Science Under Siege: How […]

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Newsom Just Vetoed California Bills Meant to Make the Grid Reliable and Tackle High Costs

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has vetoed three bills that aimed to boost the use of virtual power plants, undermining an opportunity to decrease the state’s fast-rising electricity costs and increase its grid reliability. On Friday, Newsom vetoed AB 44, AB 740, and SB 541, […]

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Massive DHS “Self-Deportation” Contract Challenged as Secretive and “Unlawful”

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For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. Earlier this year, the […]

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