Why It Matters: Opioid addiction affects every part of American society. Addiction cuts across class, race and geography, the KFF researchers found. Rural and white Americans were the likeliest to…
When Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and over a dozen of his allies for their attempt to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential…
First Solar, a leading U.S. solar panel manufacturer, said on Tuesday that an audit had found that migrant workers in its operations in Malaysia were victims of forced labor. The…
A majority of Ohio voters support the right to an abortion. The Ohio Legislature — gerrymandered into an seemingly perpetual Republican majority — does not. In many states, this would…
Yves here. This article discusses how a possible gas platform worker strike could reduce LNG supplies for a meaningful period of time, with Europe particularly exposed. It quotes a German…
In what was once an old growth redwood forest that was heavily logged in 1968, a National Park Service forester points to an unruly tangle of spindly trees, 900 to…
In New York City, debates over affordability often center on the proliferation of opulent high-rise developments. But in the boroughs, deep-pocketed investors are buying up hundreds of smaller buildings, prompting…
Donald Trump and officials in Atlanta are bracing for a potential new indictment in a Georgia prosecutor’s investigation into the Republican ex-president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in…
Jason Cantrell, the spouse of New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, passed away at 55, the mayor’s office announced Monday morning. “It is with great sadness and heartache that we announce…
The Russian ruble has reached its lowest value since the early weeks of the special military operation in Ukraine, as Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its…