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LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Corteva, Pioneer Hi-Bred settle lawsuit with farmworkers sprayed with pesticides
February 20, 2025
The 2019 incident led to a change of the Illinois pesticide law, increasing penalties for exposing humans to chemicals.
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Peggy Flanagan hopes to be the first Native woman in US Senate
February 20, 2025
The Minnesota lieutenant governor officially kicks off her campaign.
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Kentucky officials urge flood survivors to document damages
February 20, 2025
County governments around Kentucky are urging residents to report any damages from extreme weather and flooding.
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The Fight For Wild Lands: Part 3
February 19, 2025
As a blizzard of public lands change sweeps out of Washington, D.C., activists around Greater Yellowstone ponder tactics to help them keep what they hold dear.
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A new question surrounds Delaware’s opioid fund. Is new oversight legal?
February 19, 2025
The Prescription Opioid Settlement Distribution Commission recommends how the state spends a $250 million settlement it won from opioid manufacturers and distributors. Following reports of fraud last summer, the flow of new grants has all but stopped.
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Laid Off Federal Workers: Hawaiʻi Governor Wants You For State Vacancies
February 18, 2025
State government has struggled to fill vacancies and nearly a third of its workers will be eligible for retirement in the next five years.
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The Fight for Wild Lands: Part 2
February 18, 2025
Executive orders coming from the White House could transform a range of core issues affecting Greater Yellowstone.
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Gavilan doubles its Hollister student body for spring semester
February 18, 2025
Gavilan College’s Hollister campus in the Central Coast region of California has expanded the services in the community with a new, larger building that accommodates a wider range of course offerings than the old site.
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Former Vermont resident faces federal firearm charge related to killing of border patrol agent
February 18, 2025
Federal prosecutors charge that Michelle Zajko provided false information to a federally licensed firearms dealer in Mount Tabor when she purchased firearms that were later traced back to two people involved in a fatal shootout in Coventry (Pop. 111) last month.
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‘Finally Free’: Leonard Peltier heads home to North Dakota
February 18, 2025
The AIM activist was released from federal prison after gaining clemency from President Joe Biden. He spent 49 years behind bars in what he has long maintained was a wrongful conviction in the deaths of two federal agents.
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North Carolina churches join lawsuit against policy allowing ICE into places of worship
February 18, 2025
Several denominations, including the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, united against the policy that allows ICE in “sensitive locations.”
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Mississippi Researchers Investigate Growing Tick-Borne Allergy to Red Meat
February 18, 2025
The allergy affects hundreds of thousands of Americans and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United States, where ticks thrive due to the warm, humid climate.
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The Fight for Wild Lands: Part 1
February 17, 2025
As organizers prepare for the Rally for Public Lands, the conservation world faces down a changing climate, a new administration, and its own internal contradictions.
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Rural North Carolina counties would suffer most from Medicaid cuts
February 17, 2025
Funding reductions proposed by Congress threaten hospitals, children’s health and local economies.
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Federal cuts could affect all of Virginia — a new committee hopes to determine how
February 17, 2025
Speaker Don Scott formed an emergency bipartisan committee tasked with studying the possible fallout of significant federal funding and staff cuts after the first three whirlwind weeks of the second Trump Administration.
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