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Some States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Now Industry Is Fighting Back.

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to see […]

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House Republicans Are Set to Pass a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions

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Two weeks after Donald Trump issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order, the House of Representatives is set to pass a measure, the SAVE Act, that is described by voting rights advocates as perhaps the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress. It could disenfranchise millions of voters and would severely limit how Americans […]

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House Republicans Just Passed a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions

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Two weeks after Donald Trump issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order, the House of Representatives on Thursday passed a measure, the SAVE Act, that is described by voting rights advocates as perhaps the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress. It could disenfranchise millions of voters and would severely limit how Americans can […]

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Veterans Affairs Backtracked on His Cancer Treatment. He Blames DOGE.

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In February, after Donald Trump returned to office, Army veteran Mark Puhl’s medical requests to the Department of Veterans Affairs—for surgery and a chemotherapy port, both related to cancer for which he had already received care through the VA—were denied. Puhl, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, holds the cost-cutting efforts of Elon Musk’s “Department of […]

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Lawmakers Are Trying to Hold Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Account

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Last month, during an Indiana state legislative hearing, Republican Sen. Jeff Raatz from Richmond, a small city in the eastern part of the state, discussed a resolution he filed declaring that the state’s general assembly “strongly supports pregnancy care centers in their unique, positive contributions to the individual lives of women, men, and babies—both born […]

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Democrats Grill Officials on Insider Profits From Trump’s Tariff Reversal

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Leading Democrats are raising questions about whether insiders profited from the market swing that followed President Donald Trump’s sudden reversal on sweeping tariffs he recently announced on imports from foreign countries. “Who in the administration knew about Trump’s latest tariff flip flop ahead of time?” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) asked in a Bluesky post Wednesday. […]

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How a Small African Nation Scrambled to Appease Trump on Tariffs

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President Donald Trump has not been particularly kind to the small African nation of Lesotho. His administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development hit the nation of about 2.3 million people hard, by cutting millions of dollars of funding for public health and other programs. In March, he ridiculed the country during […]

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Trump Refuses to Bring Back Those Wrongly Detained in El Salvador. You Could Be Next.

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At any moment, the Supreme Court will issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump administration admits it deported to a notorious Salvadoran mega prison due to “administrative error.” The ruling could pose a make or break moment, not just for the life of Abrego Garcia, but […]

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Montana Republicans Say No to Prosecuting Parents for Trans Care

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Five days after President Donald Trump declared “gender ideology” to be “one of the most prevalent forms of child abuse,” Montana’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives killed a bill that would have enshrined much the same idea into state law by criminalizing parents and medical providers. Montana Senate Bill 164 would have made it a felony […]

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Don’t Believe RFK Jr.’s Flip-Flop on the Measles Vaccine

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is trying to have it both ways when it comes to the measles vaccine. In his first sit-down interview in his role as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—which was taped Tuesday and aired on CBS News Wednesday morning—Kennedy claimed to endorse the vaccine after a record […]

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Gabbard’s Pick to Run Counterterrorism Center Aided Start of a Right-Wing Paramilitary Group

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When Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, went looking for someone to head the National Counterterrorism Center, she landed on Joe Kent, a former Green Beret, past CIA officer, and twice-failed MAGA congressional candidate in Washington state, who, as the Associated Press reported, “stands out for the breadth of his ties to a deep-seated […]

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New Trump EO Would Punish States for Combating Climate Change

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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at “protecting” American energy from “state overreach.” The move, some energy experts say, is a legally dubious federal overstep designed to undermine the rights of states and local authorities to combat climate change. The order claims “many States have enacted, or are in the process […]

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