Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
Recycling "does not solve the solid waste problem," the head of a plastics trade group said in 1989, around the time the industry was launching its recycling campaign.
Read more ...Congress is considering whether to override a VA policy that says veterans who need financial fiduciaries may be reported to the FBI’s background check system.
Read more ...Strikes along Israel's border with Lebanon are again fueling fears of a widening war
A series of deadly strikes on Wednesday and Thursday underscored the risk that daily cross-border skirmishes could quickly escalate and turn the war in Gaza into a broader regional conflict.
Read more ...New research finds that people who use it the most tend to use it like a credit card, instead of a credit card. And that's regardless of income.
Read more ...DOJ watchdog finds 187 inmate suicides in federal prisons over 8-year period
The watchdog's reporting comes in the wake of several high-profile deaths in federal lockups in recent years, most notably the murder James "Whitey" Bulger and the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein.
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