A new Florida law is putting outdoor workers’ lives in danger by prohibiting cities and towns from passing heat protections. What happened? In April 2024, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law that will bar municipalities from enacting heat protections for workers. The move was an apparent response to efforts from farmworkers in Miami-Dade County […]
Two Pennsylvania parents are facing charges after their twin infants were found near death with signs of abuse, officials say. “The actions of these defendants are incomprehensible in their heinousness,” District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said in a March 11 news release announcing the charges against the 23-year old mother and 18-year-old father. McClatchy News is […]
Senile Probe NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft have spent almost half a century traveling through distant space. The probes, which launched less than a month apart in the summer of 1977, have survived a lot, from dwindling power supplies and grimy thrusters to near-fatal software glitches. Voyager 1, in particular, which is currently floating past the generally-defined edge of the […]
In September, Chris Tapp recorded an interview with “Dateline” at his Idaho home. He had served 20 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, and the interview was the last time he planned on publicly discussing the 1996 murder of his friend Angie Dodge — the 18-year-old Idaho woman whom Tapp was wrongfully […]