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Members of the US Congress touted improvements to children’s privacy protections as an urgent priority. So why didn’t they do anything about it?

By Ryan Sabalow and Jermia Kimelman Sen. Lena Gonzalez represents an industrial district that includes Long Beach, where poor neighborhoods suffer from pollution. She has a 100 percent rating from environmental groups that praise her for taking on the Big Oil lobby in Sacramento. It was surprising for her, though, when the state’s powerful building […]

Five investigative journalists will receive hands-on training working with major nonprofit media outlets as part of the Scripps Howard Fund’s Roy W. Howard Fellowship program.

FRANKFORT — Democrat Andy Beshear said he’s hopeful his relationship with the Republican-dominated legislature will improve now that he’s unable to run again for governor and lawmakers no longer have

Two-thirds of the bills opposed by the oil industry this year were killed, thanks in part to an alliance with the building trades union, forcing Democrats to sometimes choose between jobs and the environment. Story from @CalMatters.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

The whole world is watching, Patty Murray.

Twenty two essays marking the tenth anniversary of the Sydney Review of Books make for a diverse, thoughtful collection.

Stand Together Music, part of rightwing billionaire Charles Koch’s advocacy network, collaborates with Pitbull, Machine Gun Kelly and others

The chief of the South African National Defence Force, Gen Rudzani Maphwanya, has denied the existence of a “so-called torture squad” in the SANDF.