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This story was published in partnership with Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action, and in collaboration with Verite News and WWNO/WRKF. With support from the H.D. Lloyd Fund for Investigative Journalism. A dozen federal judges have presided over some of the most consequential environmental lawsuits in Louisiana’s history despit...

This article was produced in partnership with Rest of World. Inside a law enforcement command center in Ciudad Juárez, a police officer scrolled across a map on her touch-screen computer. As she used her fingers to navigate through the Mexican state of Chihuahua, where Juárez is located, different colored bubbles lit up. “That one is […]

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This story was produced as part of the Springboard Project. In November last year, Abigail Whittington heard there might be a data center coming to her hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.  She had concerns about how it might impact her community.  The massive warehouse-like facilities that power cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and streaming services — are [...

Fort Worth, Texas—On the last day of testimony in the federal “Prairieland” trial—wherein nine activists faced charges related to a protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center—the government called its star witness back to the stand. Kyle Shideler, director of counterterrorism research at the right-wing think tank Center for Security Policy, had be...