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Top-Earning 10 Percent Responsible for the Majority of Global Warming, Study Finds

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s wealthiest 10 percent are responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990, driving droughts and heatwaves in the poorest parts of the world, according to a study. While researchers have previously shown that higher income groups emit disproportionately large amounts […]

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Florida Families Could Buckle Under the Pressure of Trump Policies

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On a recent Wednesday morning, a hot pink van emblazoned with the words “Keeping South Florida Babies in Need Clean, Happy & Healthy Since 2013” pulled into the parking lot of the North Miami Beach Library. The van’s side door opened, revealing a shelf packed with diapers and a counter stacked with baby wipe packs.  […]

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Trump’s Latest Conflict of Interest? Accepting a Plane From Qatari Royals

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This week, President Donald Trump will head to the Middle East for the first foreign trip of his second term. While he is there, he will reportedly manufacture a new conflict of interest for himself by accepting a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family. Trump will use the […]

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After Jailing of Newark Mayor, DHS Official Warns of “More Arrests Coming”

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After the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Ras Baraka, was arrested Friday for protesting outside of a new immigration detention facility, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official is threatening to arrest three more elected officials who were present. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Baraka, who is running for governor, on Friday after he […]

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How Trump’s Dismantling of NOAA Threatens the Keeling Curve—and Why That Matters

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This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There are trillions upon trillions of numbers in the world. We use numbers to describe almost every conceivable thing in the universe. But there is one number that surpasses all others for the enormous impact it will […]

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Tufts PhD Student Released From ICE Detention After Chilling Arrest

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Tufts University PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk has been released from an immigration detention center in rural Louisiana in response to an order from a federal judge. Öztürk’s arrest led to nationwide outrage after a chilling video showed plainclothes immigration agents in masks pulling her off the street in Massachusetts in March. Öztürk, a 30-year-old Turkish […]

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White South African “Refugees” Will Soon Arrive in the United States

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On his first day in office, President Donald Trump suspended refugee admissions from around the world. In February, Trump made one exception—ordering the US government to promote refugee resettlement for white South Africans. Now, the first group of Afrikaners is set to arrive. National Public Radio reports that a flight with 54 Afrikaners will arrive […]

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“They’re Trying to Kidnap Someone”

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This dispatch by Bill Shaner, an independent journalist who writes the Worcester Sucks and I Love It newsletter, was first published by Luke O’Neil’s Welcome to Hell World. I’m driving five miles across the city to check out a tip that there’s an ICE rendition ongoing. I’ve got the scanner on the car stereo as […]

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Inside Alabama’s Threats to Prosecute Abortion Helpers

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In August 2022, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a guest appearance on a local conservative talk radio show. It was two months after the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, and abortion was now illegal in Alabama. And Marshall addressed rumors that he planned to prosecute anyone helping people get abortions out of state.   […]

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Purslane Sex and the City

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This story was originally published by bioGraphic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Steps from a public bathroom, across a narrow street from a home goods store in Tokyo, Japan, a tangle of delicate reddish stems fringed with rubbery emerald leaves pokes from a crack in the pavement. Smaller than a discarded Big […]

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Trump’s DOJ Stripped Lifeline Legal Services From the Most Vulnerable Detained Immigrants

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On April 3, a Justice Department contracting officer sent the Acacia Center for Justice a “notice of termination for convenience.” The email instructed the nonprofit to discontinue several federally funded programs described as “no longer needed.” Among them was the little-known National Qualified Representative Program (NQRP), which appoints government-paid counsel to detained immigrants deemed unfit […]

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Trump’s Killing of Energy Star Program Will Cost Families a Bundle

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal Energy Star program is among the most successful government initiatives in modern history. Its signature blue label is now nearly as recognizable as the Nike swoosh or a Coca-Cola can, and appliances bearing it save American consumers some $40 […]

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