By Jessica McKenzie on November 12, 2019
In the Marshall Islands, a containment structure that holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet of radioactive waste left over from U.S. nuclear weapons tests is threatened by rising seas, but the U.S. government is denying responsibility. “I’m like, how can it be ours?” said Hilda Heine, the president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. “We don’t want it. We didn’t build it. The garbage inside is not ours. It’s theirs.”
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By Jessica McKenzie on November 5, 2019
The machines used to test blood alcohol content of drivers are often unreliable, creating risks of unfair drunk driving convictions of innocent motorists and, in the case of breath tests that courts have thrown out, letting dangerous drivers off the hook, a major investigation found.
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By Jessica McKenzie on October 29, 2019
In California, some 2 million people will go up to five days without electricity because of intentional blackouts by Pacific Gas & Electric Co.. Dubbed “public safety power shutoffs”, the blackouts are completely at the discretion of utilities and have prompted calls for greater public oversight. In spite of the utility company’s extreme preventive measures, wildfires continue to burn across the state, forcing at least 180,000 people to evacuate their homes
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By Jessica McKenzie on October 22, 2019
The company faces more than 100,000 lawsuits involving a variety of drugs and devices, including thousands of ovarian cancer and mesothelioma claims by users of its talc powders
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By Amy Martyn on October 15, 2019
Survey found that one of every nine vehicles listed for sale was under an open safety recall. Company officials deny misleading consumers.
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By Jessica McKenzie on October 8, 2019
The FBI is investigating a series of suspicious deaths at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, West Virginia. In at least 11 cases, elderly patients were injected with insulin late at night when staffing levels were low, which caused a deadly drop in their blood-sugar within hours.
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By Hillel Aron on October 1, 2019
An 18-month probe by Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee produced a report, provocatively titled: “The NRA and Russia: How a Tax-Exempt Organization Became a Foreign Asset.” It accuses NRA officers, board members and donors of helping to facilitate Russia’s illegal influence campaign during the 2016 presidential race.
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By Chelsea Conaboy on September 24, 2019
President Trump is revoking California’s authority to set its own vehicle emissions standards, setting the stage for a Supreme Court battle.
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By Chelsea Conaboy on September 17, 2019
A decade after General Motors teetered on bankruptcy, workers say they want some payback for their sacrifices.
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By Chelsea Conaboy on September 10, 2019
The shooting massacre in Odessa, Texas, highlighted gaps in the system of background checks. The shooter’s effort to buy a gun from a licensed dealer was rejected, so he turned to private market instead.
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Standing Up for Free Speech and Open Government
By Sue Cross">Sue Cross on August 16, 2018
Today, the Institute for Nonprofit News joins journalists across the country in asking you, the public, to stand up for your rights to free speech and an open government.
This started as a campaign by The Boston Globe to ask the President of the United States to knock off attacking the news media. But the President’s attacks on the press aren’t ultimately about the press.
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