Indigenous Remains Destroyed as Federal Studies Undermine Repatriation Efforts
This story was initially printed by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Join The Big Story newsletter to obtain tales like this one in your inbox. Twenty years in the past, an anthropology professor on the College of Utah requested the Nationwide Science Basis to fund analysis on Native American ancestors to find […]
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GOP Planned to Destroy Public Education in Ohio. We Defeated Them — for Now.
Ohioans invested within the integrity and well-being of public universities throughout the state breathed a sigh of reduction in late June after Ohio Senate Bill 83 — Republicans’ huge push to overtake larger schooling throughout the state — failed in its bid to change into regulation earlier than the summer time recess started. A number […]
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New Book Exposes the Horror of the US’s Endless, Invisible Wars
A part of the Collection Progressive Picks This June, the Swiss journalist Maurine Mercier discovered a number of United States residents combating in Ukraine underneath the guise of humanitarian work. “All of them are veterans, former troopers who fought in all of the latest American wars: the Gulf Warfare, Iraq, Afghanistan,” she reports. Many endure […]
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Trump Campaign Reportedly Spending Over Half of Recent Donations on Legal Bills
As former President Donald Trump’s authorized woes mount, the road between his prison protection and his 2024 presidential marketing campaign is blurring, a political and monetary muddying that The Washington Post initiatives will solely worsen as a number of prosecutions continues to dominate his time, sources and messaging. Trump’s appeals to remain out of jail […]
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Secret Document Reveals US Covered Up Evidence of Civilian Deaths in Syrian Raid
The Pentagon dismissed credible proof of civilian deaths in a raid then-President Donald Trump referred to as “Impeccable.” A formerly classified document printed Friday by NPR revealed how the Pentagon dismissed extremely credible proof of civilian deaths brought on by the October 2019 U.S. assassination of Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria. In […]
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White Leaders Prevent an Alabama Town’s First Black Mayor From Serving
This story was initially printed by Capital B. Newbern, Alabama — There’s an influence battle in Newbern, Alabama, and the agricultural city’s first Black mayor is at warfare with the earlier administration who he says locked him out of City Corridor. After years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in […]
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LA Unified School District Is Spending Millions on Urgent Climate Adaptation
This story was initially printed by The 19th. The clouds that blanket Los Angeles within the late spring, protecting temperatures cool and skies overcast, dissipate by the primary weeks of summer time. The months recognized within the metropolis close to the ocean as “Could Grey” and “June Gloom” give solution to an uncovered July solar […]
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Alabama GOP Defies Supreme Court Order to Pass Maps Empowering Black Voters
“Why can’t we in Alabama one time do what’s proper?” lamented one Democratic Alabama state lawmaker. The Republican-controlled Alabama state legislature is ready to defy a mandate from the U.S. Supreme Court docket and different appellate courts by passing a brand new congressional map that can solely embrace one majority-Black district. After the final census, […]
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House Passes “Hateful” Bill to Defund Schools That Give Asylum Seekers Shelter
The invoice targets two high scapegoats for the Republican Get together: public colleges and asylum seekers. The Home handed a invoice this week aimed toward barring colleges and universities from giving shelter to asylum seekers in a time when members of each main events are rising their assaults on migrants searching for asylum within the […]
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19-Year-Old Girl Sent to Jail for Self-Managed Abortion in Nebraska
Far proper lawmakers have been ramping up the criminalization of abortion for the reason that Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade. A 19-year-old lady in Nebraska has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and two years of probation for ending a being pregnant with abortion drugs. Though she was 17 when she ended her […]
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