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Vast produce supply chain complicates tracking cyclospora in Missouri and Kansas

7 hours 5 minutes ago
The same food supply chain that lets restaurants serve nearly identical produce in Missouri, Michigan or California can also make it remarkably difficult to figure out where contamination began when Americans get sick. As cyclospora cases climb across Missouri and Kansas, public health investigators are working backward through a supply chain that can stretch thousands […]
Meg Cunningham

Duckworth Slams Trump Administration for Inhumane ICE Detention Conditions in Illinois and Nationwide

7 hours 6 minutes ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today called out the Trump Administration’s inhumane conditions in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities, where detainees have been subjected to overcrowding, inadequate medical care and abusive treatment. During her questioning at U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) spotlight forum, Duckworth underscored the lack of timely data regarding ICE detainees in the Chicago

Man found dead in north St. Louis, police investigating

7 hours 24 minutes ago
ST. LOUIS - Police are investigating after a man was found dead Thursday morning in north St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD), officers were notified around 8:30 a.m. in the 4400 block of Red Bud. Details on the incident are unclear. An investigation is ongoing. This is a developing story; [...]
Nick Gladney

What Happened on July 30: From the USS Indianapolis Tragedy to the First World Cup Final

7 hours 43 minutes ago
On July 30, one of the most significant events in global history took place in 1945, when the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the final weeks of World War II. The American warship had just completed a secret mission delivering parts for the first atomic bombs that would soon be used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the ship sank in the Philippine Sea, hundreds of sailors were left stranded in the water for days, facing dehydration, exposure, and shark attacks

State AGs expand consumer work as prices rise and Trump guts federal protections

8 hours 5 minutes ago
Since President Donald Trump has gutted much of the federal government’s consumer protection work, state attorneys general are increasingly left to fight high prices and investigate businesses themselves. Consumer protection work, long a growing focus of state AGs from both parties, has ramped up considerably more in the past two years, legal experts say. The […]
Kevin Hardy

Flap over noncitizens on state voter rolls seen as unlikely to boost SAVE America Act

9 hours 6 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — Suddenly there’s evidence that noncitizens were on voting rolls in New Jersey, and there are new questions about the credibility of Alaska’s voter data. Republicans say that’s a big deal and an important boost for their so-far stuck election integrity drive. But look more closely. Congressional lawmakers and independent experts said this week […]
David Lightman

Trump Republicans Are Destroying Decades Of Policy Progress On Affordable Broadband

9 hours 38 minutes ago
Quick background: the $8 billion FCC Universal Service Fund (USF) applies a small surcharge on traditional phone lines to fund broadband expansion to unserved rural homes, schools, and libraries (of which the U.S. has a lot thanks to rampant telecom monopolization). While the USF, like all government programs, hasn’t been absent of fraud (usually at the hands of […]
Karl Bode

Most states temporarily house foster children in hotels, offices

10 hours ago
More than 9,000 children in foster care had to temporarily stay in hotels, office buildings and other potentially unsafe settings when states couldn’t find suitable places for them, according to a new federal audit. The inspector general’s office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that states had an especially difficult time […]
Robbie Sequeira