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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal government shutdown is stretching into a second week with no end in sight. As Democrats and Republicans in Congress face a politically charged funding impasse, nutrition experts warn that women and children reliant on federal food assistance funding […]

Currently, just four of Nigeria’s 109 senators and 16 members of its 360-seat lower house are female.

An estimated one in three children worldwide have blood lead levels as high as those found during Flint, Michigan’s 2014 water crisis.

“My message to the people of Gaza: Do not lose hope, do not despair,” a freed Palestinian prisoner said.

Last Friday, all but two senior staff members in the federal Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) received reduction-in-force notices, according to reporting from K-12 Drive. It was part of a scourge of layoffs. 460 people across the Department of Education received RIF notices. That is roughly one in five workers in […]

A case being argued at the US Supreme Court could undo one of the last remaining protections for minority voters in a Civil Rights-era voting law.

Drop Site presents an episode from Question Everything: A deep dive into how the BBC nixed an important and timely film on Israel's attacks on healthcare in Gaza.

Read an excerpt from Gaza journalist Plestia Alaqad’s powerful new memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience.’