Mon, Oct 21 2019

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Last year, a Department of Defense contractor quietly…

The images on Zackary Nicklin's screen light up in bright orange and purple hues, forming blotchy, abstract outlines of his subjects. Nicklin is on the front lines of an innovative energy efficiency project in northwestern Minnesota that's using…

Rob Block, a firefighter and community activist Kendra Yarbrough Camarena, a teacher and community activist Carol Denson, a teacher and environmental lobbyist Anna Eastman, a community leader and former Houston ISD trustee Adrian Garcia, a legal…

The Crime Report – Crime – Oct 21, 4:55 AM

Four drug companies reached a last-minute settlement to avoid a trial in Cleveland seeking to blame them for fueling the opioid crisis, the Wall Street Journal reports. Details of the settlements with McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc.…

JAKARTA — Environmental activists in Indonesia have called on President Joko Widodo to use his second-five-year term to strengthen protections of the country's rich natural resources, after he failed to mention the environment in his…