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Lawmaker Questions Facebook on Broken Election-Related Promise - Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is demanding answers from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after The Markup published evidence last week that Facebook failed in its promise to stop recommending political groups to users during the presidential election and transfer of power. 

The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try. - Peter Kalmus, out of his mind, stumbled back toward the car. It was all happening. All the stuff he’d been trying to get others to see, and failing to get others to see — it was all here. The day before, when his family started their Labor Day backpacking trip along the oak-lined dry creek bed in Romero Canyon, in the mountains east of Santa Barbara, the temperature had been 105 degrees. Now it was 110 degrees, and under his backpack, his “large mammalian self,” as Peter called his body, was more than just overheating. He was melting down. Everything felt wrong. His brain felt wrong and the planet felt wrong, and everything that lived on the planet felt wrong, off-kilter, in the wrong place.

Caroline Chen reflects on the current COVID pandemic, the lives lost, and the vaccine chaos.

A look into the use of "illegal" chokeholds by the New York Police Department.

The Unfinished Business of Flint’s Water Crisis (Flint, MI) - When I first heard E. Yvonne Lewis tell the story, it was a hot July...

The relief felt after the release of the COVID vaccine was short-lived, as we are now in a distribution nightmare.

Video footage from inside the Capitol Riot taken from Parler show a unique perspective.

More than 10 million people have seen the video shot by HuffPost reporter Igor Bobic showing a Black Capitol Police officer leading pro-Trump rioters away from where senators were holed up in the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Analysis of Facebook data feeds found that coverage of the riots that rocked the country's Capitol last week differed greatly between Biden vs Trump supporters.

Capitol Police under fire for history of racism within the department.