47+ min ago   (700+ words) Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state. When it…...

47+ min ago   (474+ words) Unionized staff at the investigative nonprofit ProPublica walked off the job for one day on Wednesday, April 8, forming picket lines outside the organization’s New York City headquarters and in Chicago and Washington, D.C. The walkout followed more than two years…...

53+ min ago   (1316+ words) Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sign of relief. On the northeast edge of…...

54+ min ago   (1653+ words) Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed have turned Tuesday’s primary into a test of what Democrats actually mean by electability, with more than $30 million in outside spending behind the moderate. “I know what it takes to energize Democratic voters. I know…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (375+ words) Federal figures count only stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers, which EPI says leaves out many people who walk off the job, while a broader university tracker recorded a slight decline in total work stoppage activity. The number of workers who…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1123+ words) The United States is facing a number of major disease outbreaks, from foodborne cyclosporiasis to vaccine-preventable measles. “The U.S. is really at a tipping point, when you look at measles, whooping cough, all these vaccine-preventable diseases, as well, and the…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (298+ words) In Mullin v. Doe, a 6-3 majority held that federal courts generally cannot second-guess Homeland Security's decisions to end Temporary Protected Status. The U.S. Supreme Court has sharply limited the ability of federal courts to review Department of Homeland Security decisions on Temporary…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (476+ words) Missouri’s Republican lawmakers did exactly what their corporate patrons demanded in 2017 and rammed through legislation intended to prevent working people from banding together to fight for better lives. This gift to the ultra-wealthy prompted a furious backlash, with members of…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (697+ words) As local communities around the world unite around a shared enemy — AI data centers — a powerful new direction for climate action is emerging. The results showed that AI’s environmental impacts were the strongest predictor of willingness to act. Job displacement…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (282+ words) A ProPublica investigation found the April cuts reached the unit that reviews line-of-duty fire deaths and a landmark firefighter cancer registry, though the administration later reinstated some staff. NIOSH was created by Congress in 1970 to research worker safety and health....