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78% of Black people live within 30 miles of a fossil fuel-fired plant. A new EPA proposal regulating emissions could improve the air quality.

Countries could slash plastic pollution by 80% in less than two decades, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme.

Runoff from snow caused the Mississippi River to burst its banks, and folks in a mostly Black, low-income area of Iowa are suffering. An issue reflected not just in the state of Iowa- but the country.

House Republicans are abandoning a years-long push by their party to pass a federal abortion ban and are exploring other ways to advance their anti-abortion agenda.

These education restriction bills often share thematic similarities, seizing on reductive or outright incorrect terminology that has become the epicenter of culture wars over the last several years—namely, critical race theory and "gender ideology."

TN Representative Scotty Campbell resigned from his seat following a report that he violated the General Assembly policy on workplace discrimination and harassment. Campbell had been part of the vote to expel Democratic lawmakers who had led a gun reform protest in the chamber a week earlier.

Ralph Yarl, 16, rang a doorbell on April 13 and was shot in the head and arm by Andrew Lestner, 84, who opened fire through a locked glass door without any words exchanged. Yarl has been released from the hosptial but faces a long road to recovery.

Two suspects have been arrested and charged with murder in the deadly shooting Saturday night in downtown Dadeville that left four people dead and at least 15 teenagers wounded.

As loved ones mourn the victims, they join a slew of other American families that have been heartbroken by gun violence. Just this year, more than 160 mass shootings have happened in the US, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

A White, 84-year-old homeowner charged with shooting Ralph Yarl after the Black teen went to the wrong Kansas City address to pick up his siblings told police they didn't exchange words before he fired at him through a locked glass door.