What caused Birmingham’s Code Red Air Quality Alert?
Prescribed burns are commonly used to limit fuel availability and reduce the number of wildfires. Research suggests the blazes also cause excess premature deaths due to particulate pollution. (Lee Hedgepeth/Inside…
Middlebury College, facing antisemitism investigation, is among those warned by Trump administration
Middlebury College campus on June 23, 2018. Photo by Kenneth Burchfiel/Wikimedia Commons Middlebury College is among 60 higher education institutions that received a letter from the U.S. Department of Education…
Trump admin cancels $21 million in funding for schools and food banks to buy from Arizona farmers
Photo by SDI Productions | Getty Images The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cancelling roughly $1 billion in already-promised spending on local food purchases for schools and food banks nationwide,…
NM Land Commissioner Garcia Richard bans mineral mining in a portion of the Upper Pecos Watershed
An undated photo of angler fishing in the Pecos River. Amid upheaval over federal mining policies, New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard on March 12, 2025 banned mineral mining…
Federal program that identifies the nation’s worst nursing homes still on hold
Although it shut down in October 2024, the Aspire of Lake Park nursing home in Iowa currently appears on the most recent federal list of the nation’s worst nursing homes.…
Lo que los residentes de CT deben saber sobre el sarampión
Traducción por Jorge Alatrista, Identidad Latina Multimedia. Read this story in English. Un creciente brote de sarampión en el suroeste de EE. UU. ha provocado que las autoridades de salud…
NC victim service providers urge lawmakers for increased funding
An attendee looks at a series of banners for National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Candlelight Vigil on the National Mall on April 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C. The Justice Department’s…
Just two days left to file notices of loss for Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire
A charred road sign still stands in front of El Porvenir Campground near Hermits Peak, pictured June 2023. The bridge was one of many damaged or destroyed by the Hermits…
‘Jesus is better than a psychologist’: Arizona Republicans want chaplains to be in public schools
Image via Getty Images Republican politicians who accuse public school teachers of indoctrinating students with a “woke agenda” are pushing to bring religious chaplains into the same schools to provide…
Missouri sick leave law, minimum wage hike face rollback in legislature, Supreme Court
The Missouri Supreme Court Building in Jefferson City on Wednesday (Clara Bates/Missouri Independent). Months after Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved a minimum wage increase and paid sick leave requirements, the new…