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The Oklahoma City bombing was 30 years ago. Some survivors worry America didn’t learn the lesson
Thirty years after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in the nation’s heartland, deep scars still remain from the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil
California will sue to stop Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs
California is filing a lawsuit to challenge President Donald Trump's tariffs
New Jersey Transit train engineers reject labor deal with management
New Jersey Transit train engineers rejected a labor agreement with management, raising the potential for a strike or a lockout next month
Retail sales rise 1.4% in March as shoppers stock up on big ticket items
U.S. shoppers increased their shopping last month, fueled by a spending spree on foreign-made new big ticket items from gadgets to cars before President Donald Trump’s expansive new tariffs started kicking in
Is Spotify down? Thousands of users report problems with music streaming app
Spotify appeared to be experiencing a widespread technical issues Wednesday morning — with tens of thousands of users reporting problems with the popular music and audio streamer
Weinstein’s lawyers want him hospitalized instead of in jail during #MeToo retrial
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers are asking a judge to allow the ailing ex-studio boss to spend his nights at a New York City hospital instead of jail for the duration of his #MeToo rape retrial
Looking to create effective climate change policy? Ask the community.
For Peter Hasegawa, it all started with the heat dome. The labor organizer remembers the 2021 extreme heat event that killed more than 400 people in the state of Washington. That disaster woke up residents and union members to how deadly climate change can be. Although Seattle had passed climate...
A Chicago law could shift where heavy industry operates — and who bears the burden of pollution
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Chicago city leaders are set to consider a major overhaul in how and where polluting businesses are allowed to open, nearly two years after the city settled a civil...
The obscure policy that financed many of the last decade’s riskiest energy investments is back
Last week, Missouri governor Mike Kehoe signed into law a bill that packaged together dozens of reforms to utility regulations. Among them was a provision called “construction work in progress,” or CWIP, which allows power companies to bill their customers for the costs of building power plants during their construction...