Saturday, October 24, 2026
An EPA Superfund cleanup sign at the Clearview Landfill in Philadelphia. Omaha is home to the country's largest residential Superfund site. Photo: Jhbadger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The EPA Heralds Its Omaha Cleanup as a Success. But We Found Many Yards...

The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
A grey U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer under way on open water

Fact-check finds U.S. strikes killed about 115 people before Venezuela raid

PolitiFact says the administration has offered no evidence of drugs aboard the targeted vessels, while analysts and rights groups question the strikes' legality.
Portrait of Nicolás Maduro in a dark suit and striped tie

Trump announces capture of Maduro after U.S. military strikes on Venezuela, prompting congressional war...

As the captured Venezuelan leader was flown to New York to face federal charges, Senate Democrats moved to check what they called an unauthorized march toward another open-ended war.
The west front of the United States Capitol building

Congress leaves Washington without a healthcare deal as subsidy deadlines and FY2026 funding fight...

Lawmakers head into the new year with enhanced ACA tax credits already lapsed and a Jan. 30 government funding deadline still unresolved.
The headquarters of CalSTRS, the California teachers' pension fund at the center of The Lever's reporting. Photo: Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly

The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.

ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media

The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
A Flock Safety automated license plate reader mounted on a solar powered pole. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning

Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
A view across Kryvyi Rih, the central Ukrainian city where six people were killed in a suburb during the overnight assault. Photo: Tiia Monto / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Russia escalates bombing campaign on Ukrainian cities amid missile defense shortages

Rescuers pulled a 93-year-old woman from a damaged Lviv apartment block as Kyiv pressed allies to speed delivery of anti-ballistic interceptors.
A crowd at an immigration protest, one person holding a hand-lettered sign and another filming on a phone.

Advocates sue Trump administration over secret dossiers compiled on ‘ICE watchers’

The Electronic Privacy Information Center and three legal observers say the agencies used facial recognition, body cameras and license plate readers to identify people who lawfully record enforcement operations, in breach of the Privacy Act of 1974.
Workers in red shirts hold UAW picket signs reading "Record profits, record contracts" and "UAW on strike".

Major strikes drew 13% more workers in 2025 as sanitation, aerospace and health care...

Federal figures count only stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers, which EPI says leaves out many people who walk off the job, while a broader university tracker recorded a slight decline in total work stoppage activity.