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RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Is on a Collision Course with Trump’s EPA

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a Friday evening this July, the Trump administration announced it would lay off all of the health research scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency. Hundreds of investigators who try to understand how toxic pollution affects the human body would be gone. That […]

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“It’s Abhorrent”: A Whistleblower Contractor Speaks Out Amid Gaza Aid Chaos

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On June 6, Anthony Aguilar, a retired 25-year US Army veteran and Green Beret, found himself facing a daunting logistical problem. He had been recruited as a security contractor for UG Solutions, a partner of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—the Israel-backed American nonprofit now overseeing food distribution in the devastated Palestinian territory. His challenge: finding a […]

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ICE Arrested These Immigrants in San Francisco and Sent Them 2,400 Miles Away—to Hawaii

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This story was originally published by Mission Local, a nonprofit newsroom covering San Francisco. You can donate to them here. At least two people arrested by federal immigration officers last Thursday at immigration court in San Francisco have been flown to Hawaii, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They are now being held in the Federal Detention Center Honolulu, a federal prison, […]

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Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging a New War on Democracy

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Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterms became crystal clear on Wednesday, as Texas Republicans introduced a new congressional redistricting map that would give their party five new seats in the US House, making it much more difficult for Democrats to retake the chamber next November. The map is designed to give Republicans control […]

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The Trumpification of AI: What Could Go Wrong?

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The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. There are only a few potential existential threats to human society, […]

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How Does the Epstein Scandal End? 

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Last week, top officials in Donald Trump’s version of the Justice Department, including Todd Blanche, the president’s former personal criminal attorney, paid a visit to Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite turned sex trafficker. Maxwell is currently serving 20 years for her role in helping the financier-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse women and girls; according to a […]

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Resignation of a Top US Nuclear Regulator Seen as an Attack on Agency Independence

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This story originally appeared on the author’s substack newsletter, Field Notes From Alexander C. Kaufman, to which you can subscribe here. A top official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is resigning from her post amid the Trump administration’s attempts to overhaul atomic energy rules and chip away at the agency’s independence. Commissioner Annie Caputo, a Republican whom President […]

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The Bible Says So…or Does It?

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Dan McClellan has spent much of his life learning—and relearning—what the Bible and its authors were trying to tell us. But the years he spent in graduate school studying Hebrew texts, Near Eastern cultures, and the concept of deity taught him something else: The way scholars talk about the Bible is much different from how […]

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Trump’s EPA Moves to Kill “Holy Grail” of Climate Regulations

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On Tuesday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposal to rescind the agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” a critical Obama-era scientific decision about the human health costs of greenhouse gases that allows the EPA to regulate emissions. As I reported last week: On paper, the endangerment finding states that greenhouse gases like methane and […]

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“This is Trump’s Famine”: How the US Is Complicit in Gaza’s Suffering

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After nearly two years of war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza is on the brink of mass starvation. Children are dying. Aid workers and doctors push through their own hunger to try to save lives. Journalists are too weak to document the unfolding horrors. There is not enough food or medical supplies entering to protect […]

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The Surgery That Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Women’s Health Care

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For decades, the default feminist position on hysterectomy has been skepticism—and with good reason: The history of gynecology is replete with stories of unethical doctors and gruesome experimentation, of deeply ingrained misogyny and horrific racism. But when Hunter College medical sociologist Andréa Becker started doing research on hysterectomies in 2019, she discovered that many women […]

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Why Is Gov. Gavin Newsom Blocking Rooftop Solar in California?

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By any measure, California’s green energy transition has been a wild success. Two-thirds of its energy needs are now met by a mixture of renewables like wind and solar, alongside nuclear and geothermal, while the national average is 20 percent. In the last two decades, the state’s green energy output has grown by 43 percent, […]

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