EPA to require Midwestern utilities clean up coal ash waste
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold utilities in several Midwestern states accountable for coal ash waste. The agency announced it will...
Report: Taxing the world’s richest would raise US $2.52 trillion a year
A new analysis, “Taxing Extreme Wealth,” by the Fight Inequality Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, and Patriotic Millionaires found a shocking...
500K jobs lost, starvation looms as US holds Afghan funds hostage
As a report published Wednesday revealed the loss of over 500,000 jobs since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan last August, critics...
How the pandemic’s unequal toll on people of color underlines US health inequities –...
From the earliest days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has wrought a far higher toll in communities of color than in the general...
After a year of Biden, why do we still have Trump’s foreign policy?
President Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of President Trump’s foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would...
Former jail officer pleads guilty to using excessive force
Accused of assaulting an inmate and fracturing his rib, a former sergeant with the Grady County Jail, in Chickasha, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty...
Top 10 US billionaires got $1 billion richer every day of pandemic
The 10 wealthiest billionaires in the U.S. have added roughly $1 billion to their collective fortune every day—or around $12,600 per second—since...
We’ve breached Earth’s threshold for chemical pollution, study says
Many thousands of human-made chemicals and synthetic pollutants are circulating throughout our world, with new ones entering production all the time —...
Why getting Congress to fund help for US children in poverty is so hard...
The Build Back Better bill, the centerpiece of the Biden administration’s domestic policy, cleared the House of Representatives by a slender margin...
3 cops face manslaughter charges after killing 8-year-old girl
“The Bility family thanks District Attorney Stollsteimer and his staff of investigators and prosecutors for following the evidence and the law in bringing forth these charges today.”