Supreme Court blocks Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map for second time
The order clears up dueling court fights just weeks before Missouri finalizes its November ballot.
NYC releases 170,000 pages of 9/11 air quality records held back for 25 years
The documents settle two lawsuits from survivors and responders who spent decades seeking them.
Houthi seizure of Yemeni port pushes US diesel past $6 a gallon for first...
Saudi oil output has fallen to its lowest level since 1990 as the Iran war disrupts shipping.
Humanitarian Needs Grow as Nepal Recovers from Catastrophic Floods
1,367 people are confirmed dead and 5,132 remain missing, including 587 foreign nationals, two weeks after a glacial collapse triggered Nepal's floods.
Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not...
To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest time finding schools that will accept them.
25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says
Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.
American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast
Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
Real History: After 9/11, the “War on Terror” Was a War of Terror
Norman Solomon traces a war on terror that has killed far more bystanders than intended targets, from Predator strikes in Pakistan to 2,000 pound bombs in Gaza.
California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration
More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.