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Police chief in Senatobia regularly used racial slurs, private text messages reveal
Climate-Driven Droughts May Be Accelerating the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Journalists Fired From Military Newspaper for Asserting Editorial Independence
Trump’s 50 Percent Tariffs Take Effect After US-Canada Trade Talks Collapse
Fired Federal Employees Are Bringing Climate Change Info Back to the People
Shaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Largely Debunked. Courts Are Still Catching Up.
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In Laredo, Jon Rosenthal makes his first public pitch for a seat on Texas Railroad Commission
Today in Supreme Court History: August 22, 1998
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Trump administration's 75-country visa ban was illegal, judge rules
The U.S. stopped issuing visas for citizens of 75 countries because it said they were likely to need public assistance. A judge ruled the policy illegally discriminated on the basis of nationality.
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Trump Admin Report Claims 24,000 Noncitizens Voted in 2020. Experts Doubt It.
President Donald Trump this week unveiled another effort by his administration to raise questions about the outcome of the 2020 election he lost: an unusual U.S. Census Bureau analysis concluding with
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As a Palestinian From Gaza, I Can Study Abroad in Safety, But Never Visit Home
Since Israel’s war began in Gaza, Palestinian university students have seen their education and futures upended. All universities have been damaged or destroyed, campuses have closed, and around 88,00
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States Claim to Invest in “Humane” New Prisons — But Prisons Were Never Humane
In 2027, the doors of the largest state-funded infrastructure project in Indiana’s history will open. Already a winner of a “green” award for design sustainability, this public facility in the state’s
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How Trump and ICE’s Latest Tactics Target Immigrant Children
A woman and her child enter Federal Plaza Immigration Court in New York City while Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers wait to detain noncitizens after their status hearings, in 2025.
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Pete Brosius brought Penan forest stewardship in Sarawak into court
In the early 1990s, the logging roads running through Sarawak’s Upper Baram became the site of a bitter confrontation. Penan families built wooden barricades and faced off bulldozers, timber trucks, a
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Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
The U.S. has faced a critical shortage of firefighters at the Forest Service, or USFS, this summer as thousands of fires erupted across the country.
Inside Climate News2d
A Global Gathering to Tackle the Planet’s Soil Crisis Is Underway in Mongolia
In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, policy makers, scientists and global negotiators are gathering to convey an urgent message: The world’s rangelands, which make up about half of Earth’s land surface, are in t
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Hands On series: stories that build change
How does a community adapt to challenging times? A tiny home built to withstand floods. Ancient floating gardens bringing a canal back to life. Giant fishing nets and the people working to protect a t
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Check Out the National High School Law Review, Vol. II
It's a project of Studium; Studium's Constitutional Law Advisory Board includes Prof. and National Constitution Center CEO Jeffrey Rosen, Prof. and former ACLU President Nadine Strossen, Prof. and for
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This Mamdani-Backed Bill Would Kill Jobs, Boost Unions, and Make Deliveries More Expensive
As if New York City weren't already an expensive enough place to live, legislation introduced to the City Council could soon make delivering packages in the five boroughs far costlier. Cloaked in the