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Just 110 days before he faces the nation's voters for the second time, President Donald Trump continued his three-and-a-half-year attack on the nation's environmental laws on Wednesday by seeking to reign in one of the most important—the statute that requires federal...
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden unveiled a $2 trillion clean economy jobs program Tuesday that marked a significant expansion in his plan for tackling climate change, with jobs-creation and environmental justice as its pillars. With a blue "Build Back...
Late last month, the latest round of United States sanctions, known as the Caesar Act, took effect against Syria, a country already in a dire situation after nine years of war and sanctions. Covid-19 and an economic crisis in Lebanon, a financial lifeline for Syrian...
Lawmakers and public health experts are demanding that the Trump administration answer for its abrupt decision this week to cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention out of the coronavirus data-collection process, a move critics warned could impede state...
Following the 2014 death of Michael Brown, who was killed by a member of the Ferguson Police Department, the Washington Post learned that data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was unreliable and that they undercounted fatal police shootings by...
On June 26, Attorney General William Barr announced the creation of a new task force on “violent anti-government extremists.” Made up of representatives of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and “other relevant components,” the task...
“We are here to expose the state violence that is still happening in communities of color,” said Marvin Mayfield, an organizer at the Center for Community Alternatives. “We must remember that state violence doesn’t stop when a person is convicted. In many cases, it is...
We are in a moment of reckoning over racism, not only taking down Confederate statues to eradicate these lingering odes to white supremacy but also examining how deeply our society has been shaped by slavery and its aftermath. Last year, the New York Times’ 1619...
The Trump administration is rescinding its controversial new policy that would have forced international students to leave the country if their schools did not return to in-person classes this fall. On Tuesday afternoon, the Justice Department was supposed to be in...
One was a retired school teacher, another a member of the local Genealogical Society and a third an avid scuba diver. But when they and seven other California residents met over Zoom on a recent June evening, they were scientists studying air quality. These "citizen"...