Saturday, July 11, 2026

Ventilation shutdown is one of the cruelest ways to kill animals

The least humane way of culling poultry and pigs has become increasingly common.
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Another Flint? Newark, NJ, faces public health crisis over lead contamination in city’s water...

Thousands of residents in Newark, New Jersey, remain unable to drink their tap water in an enduring public health nightmare. Lead contamination...

Sowing division, reaping lives

Our work, if we are serious about making America great, is to repair racial disparities, not worsen them.
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Retired black NYPD detective: Derek Chauvin trial highlights ‘race-based’ police brutality problem

The trial is putting a spotlight on “the disproportionate killing of Black people by police” in the United States.

No more police killings of kids!

Children of color appear to be fair game for too many cops.

The Prison-Industrial Complex Takes Another Hit

Officials who built their careers on mass incarceration are now calling for this madness to end. Could this be a turning point for the prison-industrial complex?

BNSF Engineer Who Manned Exploding North Dakota ‘Bomb Train’ Sues Former Employer

A former BNSF employee is suing his former employer because he has gone through, and continues to go through, severe and permanent injuries and damages after the company's oil-by-rail train exploded while he was on the job.

A police car hit a kid on Halloween 2019. The NYPD is quashing a...

Civilian investigators found that officers engaged in serious misconduct, including hitting one boy with a car, pointing a gun at another and wrongly arresting three teens. Then the NYPD intervened.

Taking aim at billionaire tax avoiders, Biden proposes minimum tax for ultrarich

After ProPublica's Secret IRS Files showed how the richest avoid taxes — often by minimizing income and relying on their wealth — the Biden administration unveiled a plan that could raise hundreds of billions in tax revenues. Its fate is uncertain.

Science shows US Supreme Court abortion, guns, environment rulings will have devastating consequences

We can’t allow ourselves to be discouraged. Too much is at stake.