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Trump Funds Two New Coal Plants and Extends Another Dozen, Citing ‘Energy Dominance’
Democrat Xavier Becerra advances to November race for California governor
Today in Supreme Court History: June 6, 2005
Native Americans Taught Colonists How To Fight—and To Live Without Kings
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Why one historian uses social media to remember D-Day in real time
At the National World War II Memorial, historian Alex Kershaw has found an unlikely way to keep D-Day alive: live social media posts timed to the events of June 6, 1944.
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Who will face Karen Bass? LA voters still waiting to find out
Results are still coming in from the mayoral primary in Los Angeles. LAist reporter Frank Stoltze discusses who may emerge to face Karen Bass in November.
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Israel has reportedly used white phosphorus near Lebanese cities and towns. What is it?
White phosphorus is not banned under international law, but can "create cruel injuries" and indiscriminate harm in civilian areas.
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How Bangladeshi migrant recruitment networks built a quarter of a billion dollar smuggling economy
How human traffickers transformed the Bangladesh–Libya–Italy route into one of the world’s most profitable migration corridors
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Five things you need to know about ocean plastics
From surgical gloves to water bottles, shopping bags and chewing gum, every part of our daily lives includes plastic. They epitomise convenience – their durability makes our dependence on them in
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The daughters who were raised to be everything under China’s one-child policy
China's only daughters and the inheritance of family expectations
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How The Supreme Court Is Tightening Early Prison Release
The U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., in April 2026.
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YouTube Processed 2.5 Billion Content ID Copyright Claims in 2025
To protect rightsholders, YouTube regularly removes, disables, or demonetizes videos that contain allegedly infringing content.
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Montana Officials Warn of Elevated Wildfire Risk From Increasing Drought, Heat and Wind
Montana officials are warning that the 2026 wildfire season could bring above-normal fire risk to parts of the state, driven by a mix of drought conditions, wind events and warmer-than-average winter
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Trump’s Controversial Sale of Arctic Drilling Rights Draws Almost No Interest
A controversial oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drew one big bid Friday from an independent Anchorage-based natural gas producer, along with a smattering of other bids fr
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Despite oil spills in Nigeria’s mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show
Global oil giant Shell continued operating a compromised pipeline in Nigeria’s Niger Delta despite knowing it posed a pollution risk in the surrounding coastal wetland environment, newly disclosed int
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Federal agency to open tens of thousands of acres of Colorado wilderness to oil drilling
A federal agency will offer tens of thousands of acres in northwestern Colorado that the nation’s largest elk herd relies upon for migration, foraging, and winter habitat to oil and gas companies for
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A New DC ‘Museum’ Raises Awareness About the Looming Consequences of Extreme Weather
If you knew a major storm or fire was heading toward your home, what would you save? Maybe your pet? A box of letters? The blanket that your grandma knitted for you as a baby?
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Amazon Is Using AI to Disempower Workers. The US Labor Movement Must Fight Back.
Beginning June 7, the AFL-CIO quadrennial convention gathers in Minneapolis with the stated aim of organizing “in unity and clarity of purpose to empower working people.” That clarity of purpose ought
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Families of Victims Who Died From Heat in Prison Fight to Prevent More Deaths
The Central California Women’s Facility, the nation’s largest women’s prison, is in Chowchilla, where temperatures reached past 90 degrees by the second week of May. The prison lacks air conditioning
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Gordon-Darby Prepares to Renew Effort to Commandeer New Hampshire in Order to Maintain Emissions Testing Contract
Gordon-Darby Holdings had a lucrative contract running New Hampshire's vehicle emissions testing program. Understandably, Gordon-Darby was disappointed when the New Hampshire state legislature repeale
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Is the Endangered Species Act Being Used to Commandeer State Governments?
Environmental organizations have filed citizen suits against state and local governments alleging that their failure to regulate more stringently, or their issuance of permits to particular activities
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Instacart Is Suing New York City Over Its $22.13 Minimum Wage for Delivery Drivers
In recent years, several large progressive cities have begun pushing aggressive minimum wage policies for food delivery and rideshare. The results have been predictable: A decline in the number of gig