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'This bill protects our precious waters': How a Florida environmental group scored a win against Big OilThe giant and catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also known as the BP oil spill, didn't r...
Anthony Lamarr White for The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian Aug 22, 2025
AmeriCorps is under siege. What happens in the communities it serves?SILVER SPRING, Md. — Daniel Zare worked one-on-one as an AmeriCorps member with students going through rough times in school,...
Ashley Murray for States Newsroom Aug 20, 2025
Gun Violence in this Midwestern city isn't abating. Its leaders halted programs that could help.Just after midnight on July 5, on the heels of Independence Day fireworks, downtown Fort Wayne was crowd...
Josiah Bates for The Trace Aug 15, 2025
‘We opened a door nobody knew existed’: How displaced Black families won reparations in PortlandFor decades, the Albina district in Portland, Oregon, was the center of the city’s Bla...
Marianne Dhenin for Next City Aug 15, 2025
Some California winemakers don’t want tariffs on their European competitors. Here’s whyTariffs on European wine could be good or bad for California wine producers, depending on whom you as...
Levi Sumagaysay for CalMatters Aug 15, 2025
Trump flaunts pardon rules - and costs victims and taxpayers more than $1 billionTheir cases were different. One faced a four-year prison sentence in a $675 million fraud case for marketing an electri...
Joseph Neff for The Marshall Project Aug 15, 2025
Pharma industry and Ballard Partners dominate the lobbying space in second quarter of 2025Pharmaceutical and health products companies continued to dominate the lobbying space in the second quarter of...
Natalie Jonas for OpenSecrets Aug 11, 2025
Most gun violence victims are enrolled in Medicaid. Trump's cuts are putting them at risk.Health officials are intensifying their criticism of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act'' that was signed into la...
Fairriona Magee for The Trace Aug 08, 2025
A federal program helps families eat healthy meals. Trump's new legislation cuts it.On a sweltering afternoon this week, Ana Garcia, 41, and her three-year-old son, Elliott, arrived at the Goodhue Com...
Amy Zimmer for Chalkbeat Aug 08, 2025
Many voters in this state could benefit from a ballot in Arabic, but the law isn’t on their sideWhen Lama Ali Ahmad became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2021, she was eager to become a voter, to...
Hayley Harding for Votebeat Aug 07, 2025