Climate casualties rising with temperatures

More Americans die from heat than from hurricanes, tornadoes or floods. Under some future scenarios, climate warming could increase heat deaths in North America fivefold. But figuring out how often climate change has already been the culprit in such deaths takes a special kind of detective work. Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Center for Public […]
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Government watchdog confirms: Feds were warned border separations would harm kids

Workers at shelters for migrant children were warning that family separations would hurt children before the Trump administration ramped up the policy in the spring of 2018, according to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) internal investigation released Thursday. Once the administration began separations on a mass scale in April 2018 workers at […]
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Insuring catastrophe

The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. BROOKLYN, N.Y. — When Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, Thalia Panton watched in disbelief as floodwaters careened down her quiet, tree-lined street in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Sparks flew from downed electrical lines as rushing rapids rose […]
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