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Inside the Effort to Install Independent Oversight of the Texas Criminal Justice System

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice currently has an ombudsman within the agency, but two state politicians argue that making the position independent will lead to more objectivity.

Hannah Wiley

National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C.

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What America’s Science Agencies Are Doing About Harassment

Activists are putting the pressure on the federal government to leverage its money against alleged sexual harassers.

Francie Diep

Surgeons hospital doctors organ transplants

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Don’t Have a Heart Attack in a Poor Neighborhood

New research finds it takes longer for ambulances to arrive and transport a critically ill patient to a hospital in low-income areas.

Tom Jacobs

A Honduran woman waits along the border bridge after being denied entry into the U.S. from Mexico on June 25th, 2018, in Brownsville, Texas.

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One Immigrant Mother Is Fighting to Be Reunified With Her Daughter—Who’s a U.S. Citizen

Advocates estimate there are dozens of similar cases of immigrant parents separated from their children who have American citizenship.

Massoud Hayoun

ICE has arrested and detained nine different members of Migrant Justice since 2014.

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Is ICE Targeting Activists?

A lawsuit alleging that immigration authorities infiltrated a Vermont-based advocacy group could have national ramifications.

Jack Herrera

Signs are posted on the gated wall around the main technical area of Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.

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Nuclear Lab Employees With Radiation-Linked Cancers Have Been Forced to Wait Years for Potential Benefits

At the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, workers are still waiting for answers about who is liable for sicknesses they say were caused by radiation from the lab.

Rebecca Moss