Israel says it is closing its airspace as it braces for an Iranian drone attack that may take hours to reach its targets. AP reports: https://flip.it/bK1nWN
#News #WorldNews #Iran #Israel #IsraelHamasWar
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The #EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.
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Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, #Kentucky, remains polluted.
The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.
#Pollution #Environment #Climate #CleanAir #CleanWater #Cancer #News #Science #Law
Will #Israel and #Iran now escalate into full-scale warfare, or will they return to the "shadow war" they've been fighting for decades?
An expert on U.S. national security and counterterrorism who served on the National Intelligence Council says there's reason to believe Iran will be wary of making additional public attacks
https://theconversation.com/shadow-war-no-more-hostilities-between-israel-and-iran-have-strayed-into-direct-warfare-is-there-any-going-back-227877
#News #BreakingNews
I don’t care if Trump humiliates himself and his family every single day, but it’s getting tiring watching him humiliate America on the world stage.
World's First AI Art Museum | Brain-On Museum Experiences | Wood-Munching Marauders & Giant Nosed Dinosaurs | Donors Want Mauritshuis Rembrandts Back | Quebec's Indigenous groups Challenge New Museum | The Women Who Made MoMA | More Museum News.
http://www.globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #museumnews #news #museumjobs #jobs #artgallery
Zelensky asked Trump for Tomahawk missiles to force Putin to make peace https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/zelensky-ask-trump-tomahawk-missile-strike-russia
#axios #news #usnews
Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened
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The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-fema-florida-naples-sinan-gursoy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
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Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Axios:
Jeffries rules out handshake deal with GOP to avert shutdown
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries... will not accept any type of unwritten agreement...
"They consistently try to undermine bipartisan agreements that they themselves have reached," Jeffries continued.
As such, he said, "any agreement related to protecting the health care of the American has to be ironclad and in legislation."
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/24/hakeem-jeffries-donald-trump-government-shutdown
Our top story: Three of her children left for the birthday party at a rented Airbnb. María wouldn't hear from them for the next three days—and the next six months of her life would be turned upside-down. https://www.texasobserver.org/officials-tren-de-aragua-party-attendees-differ/
#ICE #immigration #HumanRights #police #Texas #CentralTexas #politics #USpol #news
The video I filmed of an ICE agent shoving a woman to the ground at 26 Federal Plaza, a New York City immigration courthouse, went viral.
Then, in a rare move, the government publicly reprimanded the officer, calling his actions “unacceptable.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-officer-shoves-woman-till-eckert?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Government #NewYorkCity #NYC #Immigration #Court #Video
The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee voted solidly to unionize with the UAW, after twice in the past voting down the #union.
This time, they may have noticed that union workers won higher pay and better benefits from US automakers in their strike last year.
https://theconversation.com/uaw-wins-big-at-volkswagen-in-tennessee-becoming-the-first-foreign-owned-factory-in-the-american-south-to-unionize-228319
#News #BreakngNews #Labor #Business
Six children are among at least nine Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential building in southern Gaza. AP reports:
https://flip.it/0aIbE6
#News #WorldNews #IsraelHamas War #Israel #Palestine
An Israeli air raid hits the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight, killing 22 people, including 18 children, health officials said Sunday. Israel's near-daily strikes on Rafah come as the US is close to approving additional military aid to Israel. AP reports: https://flip.it/QDJs7T
#News #WorldNews #Israel #Gaza #Rafah
Forcing a Chinese company to sell TikTok won’t solve the biggest problem with #TikTok: the fact that so people get their “#news” from platforms that are designed to hijack attention for commercial gain, not to deliver reliable information.
If China wants information on Americans, it can buy data from companies since there are no effective #privacy laws.
And American-owned Facebook and X have shown themselves to be as bad or worse as TikTok at spreading #misinformation.
Raw Story:
Internet melts down as Trump identified as 'unindicted co-conspirator' in Arizona filing
Trump's own niece, Mary Trump, had this to say about the news from Arizona:
"Good. Now indict the unindicted."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-unindicted-arizona/
Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.
But in some N.C. counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-aid-hurricane-helene-income-disparities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Trump's epic economic and drug figures fizzle under scrutiny https://www.axios.com/2025/09/27/trumps-fact-check-math-tariffs-fentanyl-drug
#axios #news #usnews
President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by launching a website for applications for his Climate Corps jobs and training program, a plan that has attracted a lot of interest from young Americans.
NPR reports: "Eventually, the corps will employ more than 20,000 young people."
New today: More than 1,000 captive trophy-hunting ranches operate in the United States, most of them in Texas. Some routinely offer hunts of endangered or threatened exotic species. This should not be allowed.
An OpEd from Amber Gobell ... https://www.texasobserver.org/exotics-hunting-endangeredspecies-wildlife-environment/
#wildlife #hunting #nature #politics #news #USpol #endangered
The Family #Photographs That Helped Us Investigate How a University Displaced a #Black Community
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A longtime resident of the Shoe Lane area in #Virginia chronicled the life of his community as it was demolished by Christopher Newport University.
His photographs helped a reporter seek #accountability.
#News #Richmond #Race #RealEstate #Property #Community #Education
https://www.propublica.org/article/family-photos-of-shoe-lane-destruction
Some 4 million people in the U.S. could lose federal housing assistance under new plans from the Trump administration, say experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica.
#News #Trump #Housing #Poverty #Homelessness #Homeless #Immigration
Out today: "I’m still not sure what kind of grooming could possibly occur at a neighborhood festival where toddlers and grandparents dance to a B-52s cover band." https://www.texasobserver.org/north-texas-pride-fest-rainbow-panic/
#Pride #LGBTQIA+ #NorthTexas #Texas #culture #politics #USpol #news