Health Oct 25 Benton Harbor’s Black community fuming over ‘environmental racism,’ water crisis As Congress debates a massive bill to overhaul the nation's physical infrastructure, one Michigan city is an example of how badly help is needed, and how communities of color are often the last to receive it. John Yang traveled to…
Nation Oct 21 How this ‘vulture’ hedge fund’s gutting of local newsrooms could hurt Americans The hedge fund Alden Global Capital has been acquiring scores of U.S. newspapers across the country — then gutting newsrooms and selling off assets. It’s part of a larger trend in the erosion of local news and related jobs in…
Nation Oct 18 Can the world’s whitest paint save Earth? A special experimental white paint that recently made it into the Guinness World Records could one day help keep the world from heating up. John Yang explains from West Lafayette, Indiana.
Nation Oct 14 Benton Harbor’s water has had excess lead for years. Residents are only now receiving help Residents in Michigan's Benton Harbor — a predominantly Black city — have been advised to only use bottled water for things like cooking and bathing due to lead contamination. The warning comes just a few years after Flint’s water crisis…
Nation Oct 13 2 reasons why Boston Marathon bomber case is being heard in the Supreme Court With all nine justices back in the courtroom Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence, eight years after the attack. John Yang reports.
Health Oct 13 Rural U.S. hospitals stretched thin after nurse shortage exacerbated by the pandemic Nursing shortages are impacting healthcare workers and hospitals across the United States. In just the past few days, nurses and other workers in Southern California and Oregon authorized a potential strike against provider Kaiser Permanente. Staffing shortages are part of…
Politics Oct 04 Supreme Court resumes in-person arguments with abortion, guns, religious freedom on agenda The Supreme Court returned to the courtroom Monday morning to hear its first oral arguments of the new term in-person. The cases set for argument this term could make it one of the most contentious in many years. Marcia Coyle,…
Science Sep 29 Here’s what contributed to the extinction of ivory-billed woodpecker, 22 other species The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed moving 23 animals and plants off the endangered species list, declaring them extinct. Perhaps the most well-known of the species deemed gone forever is the ivory-billed woodpecker. These extinctions are part of an…
Nation Sep 21 Inmates released to home confinement during pandemic fear ‘devastating’ reincarceration Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Justice Department has released more than 30,000 non-violent inmates to home confinement to try to limit the virus' spread in prison. But, as John Yang reports for our ongoing "Searching for Justice"…
Nation Sep 09 New York’s 9/11 first responders are battling a new kind of mass trauma For our endeavor to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, John Yang spoke to first responders and medical workers who have lived and worked through both the attacks and have also more recently seen the mass trauma…