Research shows the more times you hear a statement, the more likely you are to believe it.
We analyzed >12,000 of Trump’s immigration statements & found his most repeated claims, some of which he's made >500 times. All false. Here they are, fact-checked: themarshallproject.org/2024/…
@geoffhing analyzed years of county finance data & found jails paid for additional charges for things such as COVID-19 tests and sensors designed to improve health monitoring, or for lab tests & prescription drugs when those costs were excluded/or exceeded a threshold.
I was at City College Tuesday night, reporting for the @nytimes
Two sets of protesters were arrested that night.
The first set was a crowd outside City College’s locked gates. NYPD arrested this group on two separate occasions that evening at different locations.
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NEW: The Appeal has published the first national database of prison commissary prices. The project covers 46 states, revealing an exploitative system that forces incarcerated people to pay up to 5x the outside price for some items. theappeal.org/locked-in-pric…
Great to see the excellent journalism of esteemed colleagues @matt_kiefer @taylormooresays @AngelaTCR @MichaelJLiptrot and more on the cover of the Sunday @Suntimes
Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb has been confiscating money from people incarcerated in his jail and using it to buy guns (which, of course, he loves).
azluminaria.org/2023/09/29/p…
Yesterday we reported how a state board had denied nearly two-thirds of medical release requests from dying and disabled Illinois prisoners who met the criteria under the law to get out.
@GovPritzker told reporters today there was nothing wrong with that
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PHX, I need your help: Here's a summary of how the city says they plan to mitigate heat this summer. But what about follow through? How are they doing? Is it working? As I report it out & collect data, share with me your experiences and anecdotes. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…
As the world shifts to solar, wind and nuclear energy, it's so important for journalists to ask where these projects are being built and why. And with whose permission?
middleeasteye.net/news/syria…
What's next in the ongoing Justice Department probe…. Phoenix has provided more than 80,000 documents to the department and coordinated at least 150 interviews for the investigation, according to city documents. azcentral.com/story/news/loc… via @azcentral
An examination of pay at the Chicago Tribune undertaken by the guild uncovered a troubling but sadly unsurprising truth: The Chicago Tribune regularly pays women and people of color less than men and white people. Here's what we found: chicagotribuneguild.com/pays…
It’s Day 7 of our strike and we’re going strong! We’re on a ULP strike because we need @Insider to remedy its unfair labor practices and settle a fair contract.
ALT A group photo of people walking with picket signs on a sunny day in the city. On the far right a person holds a sign reading "OUR UNION MAKES US STRONG!" in all caps, the center person holds a sign with a blue fist inflame and reads "INSIDER UNION" in all caps, in the far right two signs are being held that read "INSIDER UNION is on STRIKE. DON'T READ OUR STORIES UNTIL WORKERS GET A FAIR DEAL." and "NO PAGE VIEWS WITHOUT HEALTHY WORKERS"
Today, our bargaining committee sent two letters to groups with meaningful influence on Insider: Axel Springer and KKR.
We asked them to encourage Insider to give us reasonable counters, a key move toward ending our ULP strike.
Here are the letters and their key points: (1/6)