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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/08/usda-food-insecurity-report/
U.S. Agriculture Department releases first complete government calculation of 2020 hunger surge, revealing the success of pandemic safety net programs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/12/gop-strategy-retake-power-gerrymandering/
Why Republicans can focus largely on lathering up their base and still win in 2022.
Billionaire business owners deployed lobbyists to make sure Trump’s 2017 tax bill was tailored to their benefit. Confidential IRS records show the windfall that followed.
U.N. science group says humans caused “unprecedented” global warming, and only humans can prevent its ever-worsening.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22580659/police-in-school-resource-officers-sro
How the number of police officers in schools skyrocketed in recent decades — and made for a harrowing education for Black and brown youth.
Hale, a former defense analyst, cast himself as a whistleblower.
Under a law that goes into effect in January 2022, officials can't use common manipulative tactics, including offering leniency or suggesting that incriminating evidence exists, to people under 18.
Exclusive: Documents suggest Russia launched secret multi-agency effort to interfere in US democracy
A Black Hole Feasted on a Neutron Star. 10 Days Later, It Happened Again.
Astronomers had long suspected that collisions between black holes and dead stars occurred, but they had no evidence until a pair of recent detections.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/crispr-injected-blood-treats-genetic-disease-first-time
Novel treatment using messenger RNA sharply cuts production of mutant liver protein, although it’s too early to show patients with rare condition benefit
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57515422
Called the "cosmic dawn", this period happened between 250 and 350 million years after the Big Bang.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/trump-justice-department-2020-election/
New documents and emails reveal how far the president and his supporters were willing to go to try to keep Donald Trump in office in a frenzied three-week stretch that tested Justice Department leaders.
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
A Facebook report released Wednesday says that Russia is still the largest producer of disinformation, a notable finding just five years after Russian operatives launched a far-reaching campaign to infiltrate social media during the 2016 election.
As the nation reacts to the guilty verdict a jury handed to Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, Republican-led states are introducing punitive new measures governing protests.
Gov. Tim Walz said he had told police officers to “make changes” that would allow reporters to do their jobs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/08/royals-racism-meghan-harry-oprah/
Their explosive comments in their interview with Oprah mark a new chapter in an old story.
The report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was ordered by Congress. Its release could push already strained U.S.-Saudi relations to new lows.
With Britain out of the European Union, companies that trade with the continent are contending with expensive disruptions to their businesses and a plunge in exports.
Shell Hits Its Own Peak Oil, Plans to Reduce Output
The company said it would start reducing oil production, calling an end to a decades-old strategy centered on pumping more hydrocarbons as it and other energy giants seek to capitalize on a shift to low-carbon power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-american-universities.html
Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French identity and the French republic.
Royals vetted more than 1,000 laws via Queen’s consent
Exclusive: secretive procedure used to review laws ranging from Brexit trade deal to inheritance and land policy
Myanmar's Suu Kyi Detained, Her Party Says Army Stages ‘Coup’
Jan.31 -- Myanmar’s leading political party says the army has ousted civilian leaders and seized power. Bloomberg’s Dan Ten Kate reports on “Bloomberg Daybre...
More than 50 people have been jailed in the past three years in an escalation of the Communist Party’s assault on use of foreign social media.
Lab-grown wood could let us grow furniture in a lab instead of in a forest
Why cut down trees when you can grow wood in the exact shape you need?
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/astronomers-observe-death-distant-galaxy-first-time/
Galaxy ID2299 is losing its ability to form new stars, causing it to die.
WASHINGTON (AP) — They came from across America, summoned by President Donald Trump to march on Washington in support of his false claim that the November election was stolen and to stop the...
Hiding Covid-19: How the Trump Administration Suppresses Photography of the Pandemic
The U.S. government has reinforced media restrictions at hospitals, reducing the flow of disturbing images of the pandemic.
Inside Trump and Barr’s Last-Minute Killing Spree
Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications. ProPublica obtained court records showing how the outgoing administration is using its final days to execute the most federal prisoners since World War II.
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-55250431
What drives a mother to sell her baby? The story of a woman caught between poverty and traffickers.
The first of nearly three million doses were sent across the country, the start of the most ambitious vaccination campaign in the nation’s history.
The global breach stretches back months, sources say.
Report Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ as Likely Source of Mystery Illnesses That Hit Diplomats and Spies
A government-commissioned report provides the most definitive explanation yet for “Havana syndrome,” which struck scores of American employees, first in Cuba and then in China, Russia and other countries.
Documents released last week shed new light on sales advice given by McKinsey & Co., the world’s most prestigious consulting firm, to the billionaire Sackler family and their drug company, Purdue Pharma.
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