Setting low-grade fires, known as prescribed burns, can help clear out overgrown brush and dead material that fuels more extreme wildfires. In 2025, controlled burning fell by almost half under the Trump administration. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images With wildfires already burning and drought persisting across much of the U.S.,…
Fatimah Shepherd knew she was not supposed to get pregnant — not now, while her illness was acting up, and maybe never. Lupus, an autoimmune disease, was gnawing away at her kidneys, and doctors had warned her that pregnancy could tip her into full-blown kidney failure. But in December 2023, there it was, a positive…
Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power. April 18, 2026 Just after 6 p.m. on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling that sent both climate policy and the court itself spinning in new…
Shorouk Express Sara* is 43 years old and works as a freelancer in Italy. Like many of her colleagues, she regularly participates in European funding opportunities for journalism, such as JournalismFund Europe or Investigative Journalism for EU. Sitting at a table in a park in northern Paris, Sara tells me about a highly instructive episode:…
Businesses still haven’t stopped using easily crackable passwordsGermany, the US, and China suffer the most password breaches123456, password, and qwerty are still being used in 2025 Many businesses are still using weak passwords that can be cracked in less than a second in the event of a brute force attack to secure their accounts, new…
