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The Supreme Court has agreed to bypass lower appeals courts and review a case about a question on the 2020 census asking about citizenship status.

Social Justice

Immigrant Rights Groups File a Lawsuit Challenging the Census’ Citizenship Question

The suit's plaintiffs say the question could discourage certain ethnic minorities from completing the census due to fears that their responses could be used against them.

Rebecca Worby

Dispatches: Introducing Our Short-Form News Editor

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

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News in Brief

‘Right to Try’ Law Will Give Terminally Ill Patients Access to Experimental Drugs

The bill will allow terminally ill patients to request experimental drugs that the FDA has not yet approved.

Rebecca Worby

Education

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Proposes a New School Safety Plan

The plan calls for increased law enforcement at schools and active shooter training for students.

Rebecca Worby

Pakistani students take a selfie in a class on the first day of the first transgender school in Lahore on April 21st, 2018.

Social Justice

Pakistan Passes a Transgender Rights Law

The landmark legislation gives citizens the right to choose their gender identity and to have it recognized on official documents such as passports.

Rebecca Worby

Calories are listed next to menu items in a Starbucks coffee shop in New York City.

News in Brief

Five Facts About the FDA’s New Menu Labeling Rule

The calorie counts you've long seen at Starbucks will be at every chain restaurant starting today.

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New housing development in Petaluma, California.

Social Justice

The Bay Area’s Affordable Housing Crisis Is Only Getting Worse

Workers in several Bay Area counties would need to earn four times the minimum wage to pay the median rent for an apartment, a new report finds.

Rebecca Worby

Fish swim through the coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Environment

The Great Barrier Reef Is Getting Too Quiet

A new study finds coral reefs are sounding less like suitable homes to baby fish.

Rebecca Worby

A phytoplankton bloom in the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman (upper right).

Environment

Underwater Robots Identify a Vast Dead Zone in the Gulf of Oman

Researchers found a nearly oxygen-less dead zone the size of Florida in the Arabian Sea.

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Environment

A Developer Wants to Build Hundreds of Homes in a Houston Floodplain

The Houston City Council approved a developer's plan to build hundreds of homes in a floodplain. But future flooding is all but inevitable.

Rebecca Worby