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Teens Use Tobacco as Much as They Vape—But, OK! Ban Flavored Juul Pods!
Weird how the Trump administration isn't going after the tobacco industry, which spent $23 million in lobbying last year.
Trump Is Scaring Immigrants Away from Healthcare Services to Help the Rich
The new public charge rule was created to isolate working class people from the healthcare benefits they need to survive.
The Trump Administration Just Gutted the Endangered Species Act
The Trump Administration released sweeping regulations to weaken the law credited with saving the bald eagle and the grizzly bear.
YouTube Is Finally Banning Nazis, Holocaust Denial, and Sandy Hook Truthers
YouTube says it will “remove content denying that well-documented violent events took place.”
The EPA's Lies About Air Pollution Are Killing Americans
In its latest move to protect industry, the government has ensured that we'll see more deaths from asthma, heart problems and cognitive degeneration.
China Approves Foreign Video Games After More Than A Year-Long Ban
China relaxes its strict regulation on foreign video games after approving 30 titles this week.
Trump Is a Health Hazard to His Supporters
I’ll never forget how a man pulling an oxygen tank because of severe lung disease told me he would rather die than receive benefits from the Affordable Care Act because it used his tax dollars on “Mexicans and welfare queens."
China May Be Using the Belt and Road Initiative to Covertly Develop Military Infrastructure Abroad
In the last few decades, China's Navy has gone from practically nonexistent to one of the largest navies in the world.
I Was Pulled Off a Bus and Humiliated by US Border Patrol
The author of a viral Twitter thread talks about how his run-in with aggressive law enforcement officers who he says called him an 'illegal.'
As Ocean Predators Recover, Humans Need to Learn to Coexist
It’s great that sharks, whales, and sea otters are bouncing back in some marine areas. But it may also increase human-wildlife conflicts.
Black Farmers Are Being Forced Off Their Land by Longstanding Government Discrimination
“The unfair treatment of black farmers went under the radar for many, many years. It was not taken up by the civil rights movement, and it should have been front and center.”
Congress can't figure out a solution to the family separation crisis
On Tuesday, Trump even suggested that the debate over immigration could continue indefinitely.