A Landmark UN Report Says the World Will Overshoot the 1.5°C Climate Target. What Happens Now?
The world just missed its own deadline. A new UN report confirms what scientists have warned for years: global warming will blow past the 1.5°C threshold, likely by 2030, closing out a decade-long fight to hold the line set in Paris. Pacific Island leaders, whose nations face existential threat from rising seas, called the news devastating and said pledges alone no longer cut it. The question now isn’t whether the world overshot the target — it’s how far past it we’re willing to go before treating that number like it still matters.
Read the Full Story →Children in a Faith-Healing Sect Keep Dying. The State Lets It Happen.
A newborn dies in an Idaho farmhouse while a room full of adults look at the floor instead of calling for help. It’s not an isolated tragedy — ProPublica found a pattern inside a faith-healing sect that rejects modern medicine, one state officials have documented for years without stopping it. The investigation asks the question regulators keep avoiding: how many children have to die before “religious freedom” stops working as a legal shield.
Read more →Trump and Kennedy’s Health Industry Deals Haven’t Been Enforced and Are at Risk of Vanishing
RFK Jr. and the Trump administration have rolled out a string of headline-grabbing health deals — cutting artificial dyes, promising lower drug prices — sealed with handshakes instead of regulations. KFF Health News found the catch: without enforcement teeth, the industry’s “voluntary agreements” can quietly disappear the moment the cameras move on. Popular on both sides of the aisle, sure. Binding? Not so much.
Read more →These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Since January 2025, more than 70,000 immigrants have filed habeas petitions asking federal judges to rule they’re being held unlawfully. A ProPublica analysis of those cases found wildly uneven timelines: some detainees win freedom in days, others wait months for a ruling, and some are deported before a judge ever decides. The deciding factor often isn’t the law — it’s which judge you draw.
Read more →- Taxpayers Don’t Want to Pay for New NFL Stadiums. So Why Did Politicians Approve Billions in Subsidies? — Stadium subsidies keep passing even though voters consistently say no.
- Inside the Booming ‘Shadow Fleet’ Industry Keeping Rogue States Afloat — A murky tanker fleet is helping sanctioned states move oil and evade the rules.
- I’m Trying to Lose Weight. Will Exercising Make Me Hungrier and Eat More? — The science on exercise and appetite is messier than “work out, eat more.”
- Where Florida’s Gun Violence Exacts Its Biggest Toll on Black and Latino Children — New data shows gun deaths concentrated overwhelmingly in Black and Latino neighborhoods.
- States Pay Deloitte, Others Millions To Comply With Trump Law To Cut Medicaid Rolls — States are paying consultants millions just to comply with Medicaid cuts.
- More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn’t Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up. — Lead contamination is widespread in East Omaha — and cleanup remains stalled.
