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Evidence of fracking chemicals found in bodies of Pennsylvania children
Mar 26, 2021 12:06State lawmakers in Pennsylvania are demanding an investigation into the public health impacts of fracking after a new study found evidence of harmful chemicals accumulating in the bodies of children and their families living near fracking wells in communities inundated by fossil fuel development.
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Pro-Trump lawyer says ‘no reasonable person’ would believe her election lies
Mar 26, 2021 12:00A key member of the legal team that sought to steal the 2020 election for Donald Trump is defending herself against a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit by arguing that “no reasonable person” could have mistaken her wild claims about election fraud last November as statements of fact.
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Biden should stop making excuses — it’s time to leave Afghanistan
Mar 25, 2021 09:34US Presidents from Carter to Biden — with a brief Clintonian interlude while Afghanistan was left to burn from the inside out — have played a politics of merciless intervention in that country. This meddling wrought a terrible price 20 years ago, in Afghanistan and the U.S., and the bleeding has never stopped.
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'Deeply concerning': Critics decry Facebook plan to build Instagram for kids 12 and under
Mar 25, 2021 09:29Social media companies have a responsibility to protect children and young people online, but building a separate version of their platforms is not the answer.
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Medicare for all would have prevented hundreds of thousands of COVID deaths in US: New report
Mar 24, 2021 09:16The COVID-19 pandemic showed just how greedy private insurers are, as they were reporting record profits because they were paying out far less in claims due to millions of Americans delaying care.
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Some of wealthiest counties in US have seen biggest rise in hunger
Mar 23, 2021 14:32The US financial fallout of covid-19 has pushed child hunger to record levels.
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Why some Georgia lawmakers want last week’s shootings labeled hate crimes
Mar 23, 2021 14:27A year ago, Georgia was one of four states that had no hate crime legislation. But the deadly rampage last week that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, is now providing a test of a law passed last year — and a window into the way that the state’s increasingly diverse electorate has altered its political and cultural chemistry.
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US 'life and death' crisis as utilities cut power to over 765,000 across 10 states during pandemic
Mar 22, 2021 05:37The COVID-19 pandemic and Texas energy crisis have both highlighted a crucial fact: Losing power can be lethal. This makes energy access a critical human right. Yet families continue to lose power not only because of extreme weather and other climate-fueled disasters, but also because of utility greed and government failures to regulate. When Americans cannot pay their essential utility bills, they risk being disconnected from life-sustaining services.
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Multitude of coronavirus variants found in US — but threat is unclear
Mar 21, 2021 11:53Ramped-up sequencing efforts are helping to identify mutations that might boost transmission or help a virus evade immune responses.
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From Texas to Mississippi, states dismantle COVID-19 safety protocols at people’s peril
Mar 19, 2021 04:21Instead of gritting teeth for another couple of months before a solid majority of adults are vaccinated, governors and mayors are relaxing or ending restrictions on businesses and public gatherings from Massachusetts to Texas, from California to Mississippi, from Michigan to Utah, from South Carolina to Nevada, from Maryland to Washington, and from New York to Arizona.