Ben Brickhouse came to his career as a late bloomer. In December 2003, when he was 41 years old, he took a vacation to Asheville, North Carolina, and fell in love with the mountain town. He not only decided to stay but also to become a firefighter. His plans to work 20 years and retire …
When Ward Walker moved to the seaside village of Stebbins, Alaska, in 1995, he was told there would be running water within the next five years. The 63-year-old, who recently retired as vice mayor of the village of roughly 650, now says he’ll be happy if it happens before he dies. Stebbins became Walker’s home …
This story is part of a collaboration among Public Health Watch, KPCC/LAist and Univision, and is being re-published by IRW. UPDATE: May 17, 2023: California’s OSHA takes action. LOS ANGELES — The men are haggard, starved of breath and tethered to oxygen tanks. Neither will live to an old age; without lung transplants, both may …
New data show Houston-area communities are being flooded with chemicals. Residents are taking matters into their own hands.
PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. — Grace endured two months of sexual harassment at school before she found the courage to tell her parents. A boy kept staring at Grace and making gross comments while masturbating beneath his jacket at the desk adjacent to hers. After hearing from her concerned father, the principal suspended the boy …
Dr. Anthony Fauci said it was during his childhood in Brooklyn that he first encountered the spirit of community care that would guide his more than five decades of government service. His father, a pharmacist, was seen as the area’s family doctor. “Right from the time that I was born,” Fauci said in a recent …
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Jim Manion, the leader of bodybuilding’s top federations, assured promoters who pay fees to host bodybuilding competitions that business would proceed as usual in the aftermath of a Washington Post investigation into the sexual exploitation of female contestants. Tuesday’s story in The Post was based on interviews with 20 women who detailed their experiences with …
In some cases, these ‘emissions events’ aren’t illegal. In others, state regulators give polluters the benefit of the doubt.
Update: Biden met with the crown prince on July 15 in the Saudi port city of Jeddah. A fact sheet released by the White House said the two discussed topics such as cybersecurity, clean energy and human rights. The public health and climate fallout from the Saudis’ big bet on plastics did not appear to be …
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State Rep. Morales Shaw said she will write policies to tackle issues revealed in IRW and PHW’s recent investigation.
Two years after going live, TAP hits a major milestone.
Investigating Power is a history of breakthrough investigations that revealed news and changed the national narrative on many major topics since the 1950s, from war to health to civil rights.
An interactive timeline following President Biden’s actions on immigration.
In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling prescription narcotics onto the nation’s streets.
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