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“I’m Walking Through the Streets… Carrying Shame and Humiliation”

The family of Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant in Springfield Ohio, says he died by suicide August 31 after losing Temporary Protected Status....

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You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules

On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the city of Jackson, Mississippi, which alleged the city knowingly let...

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More Than 1,200 Food Packaging Chemicals Can Pose Serious Health Risks

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Most peopl...

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More People Have Died From 9/11 Than on 9/11

When Mia Farina got seriously ill in 2014, she thought she had a bad case of pneumonia. But it turned out to be far worse: It was the start of chronic lung dise...

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The White House Made an Arcade Game Out of Deporting People

As of September 3, the official White House website features a page titled “arcade,” where users can play games like Rio Run, in which the player—a pixelated, w...

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Why Is Trump’s DOJ Still Helping the Russian-Linked Liar Who Smeared Biden?

On September 17, prosecutors from the Justice Department are scheduled to appear in a federal courtroom in Pasadena, California, for a rather odd event. They wi...

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This “Supersized” El Niño Is Only Just Beginning to Wreak Its Havoc

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s leading weather o...

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