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States are closing youth prisons: the most secure ones are down 40%+ since 2000. Tennessee is spending $360M to build more, including the state's largest. One private company runs all its top-security youth prisons, and it lobbied against independent oversight. The bill died. oturu.online

Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.

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For a decade, your complaint about a debt collector or payday lender could be made public. That's how reporters found 600% loans. The consumer bureau just stopped publishing them and removed the option to consent, so today's complaints can never come out. oturu.online

The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move

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Congress funds groups that help disabled people register to vote: ~$10M a year since 2002. The White House budget office wants to rewrite federal grant rules so none of it can go to registration. No repeal, no vote. Just fine print. oturu.online

This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote

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DoorDash spent ~$1.4M trying to keep Mamdani out of City Hall. He won. Now DoorDash owes $131.5M for underpaying 264,000 delivery workers, the biggest worker settlement in NYC history. The pay law was always there. Enforcement is what they were trying to buy. oturu.online

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

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A defense contractor gave politicians under $900k and got $40M+ a year in taxpayer funding for research the Navy didn't want. He handed the FBI a 50-page map of who he paid. Then the FBI's anti-corruption squad was purged. oturu.online

The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

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$167bn wagered on sports last year. Bankruptcies rose ~25% in states that legalized the apps. One bettor was offered VIP status after losing $100k in three months. A former FanDuel insider on heavy losers: "It's never forever." oturu.online

Sports betting apps prod and entice fans as gambling exacts a growing financial toll

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NYC paid $53m in police misconduct settlements in six months: a fourth straight year past $100m, near $1bn since 2018. The enforcement generating the claims is fare evasion, panhandling, sleeping on the subway. It expanded. oturu.online

NYPD Misconduct Payouts Still Soar Under Mamdani — And May Keep Growing

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Congress split the care of migrant children from the agency deporting them, on purpose. That wall is gone. ICE now reaches the kids' files, sits in on sponsor interviews, and detains the aunt who came forward. No vote required. oturu.online

Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

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Coal operators can appeal a black lung award after a miner wins it. They contest 40% of them. The median appeal runs 3+ years while the miner pays for his own tests. A federal report quotes miners: they're "waiting for them to die." oturu.online

‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surge

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The EPA gave Bayer a menu of pesticide rules and asked which it preferred. Bayer picked the weakest, asked for one more, and got all of it in the proposed federal rule. Courts banned this weedkiller twice. Farmers downwind pay. oturu.online

US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show

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The bill to tell you where your generic drugs are made passed committee. First they removed the part that worked. The FDA factory code is out; a "place of business" address is in, and that can be a US headquarters. Compliance moved from one year to five. oturu.online

“A Clear Watering Down”: Drug Transparency Bill Stripped of Critical Provisions Ahead of Senate Vote

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Arizona's English learners did not get better at English. The state lowered the passing score. 30,000 kids were declared fluent and dropped from the program. Districts must still support them for two years; the funding that paid for it goes away. oturu.online

Arizona Lowered the Bar for Its English Fluency Test. Experts Say It Will Harm Students in the Long Run.

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A judge ruled these men would be tortured if sent home. So the US sent them somewhere else and paid $7.5m for the favor. Two were bound, hooded and beaten in front of the rest after a video got out. ICE: once they leave our custody, they're not our responsibility. oturu.online

Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say

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A prison guard was stabbed seven times after a colleague buzzed open the wrong door. She lives on $825 a month. The company that cut the officers watching those doors just sold the building to DHS for $238.4m and kept the contract to run it. oturu.online

ICE Revives Former “Hellhole” Prison — And Hires the Same Company To Run It

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The Senate's college sports bill caps what athletes can be paid. It caps no coach's salary and no TV deal. The 'chaos' it fixes is courts ruling the NCAA's old pay rules illegal. The remedy: an antitrust exemption, so the buyers can set the price again. oturu.online

Senate moves to rein in college sports 'Wild West' with sweeping new rules for players, schools

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A Putin-linked oligarch quietly paid for Donald Trump Jr.'s island wedding: the $100k-a-night villa, the fireworks, routed through an offshore boxing-federation account in Dubai. No law required anyone to report it. A president's adult son files nothing. oturu.online

Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

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EPA is about to stop inspecting 700,000 leaky oil wells. They're 6% of US production and half the industry's methane. The rollback is run by a former lobbyist for the billionaire who buys those wells. Savings to companies: $42 billion. Cost to you: not calculated. oturu.online

EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells

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Florida offered her $10,500 to send her disabled daughter to private school. She returned it: not one school would take a child with a feeding tube. Private schools taking public money don't have to accept disabled kids. Most don't. oturu.online

Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.

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