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The ultrawealthy’s hijacking of a tool meant for the middle class becomes especially striking when you consider what the retirement future looks like for many Americans. There isn’t one.https://propub.li/2VvVvnR 

Ohio juvenile court Judge Timothy Grendell thought coronavirus precautions were overblown, and made sure people knew it. In one case he forbade a mother from getting her children tested for COVID-19. Then, one of them had to go to the emergency room.https://propub.li/37fJd58 

Since Feb. 2020, @USPS employees across the country have filed more than 1,000 OSHA complaints alleging COVID-19-related hazards. Following those complaints, OSHA issued citations for FOUR violations, all of which the Postal Service has contested.https://propub.li/2XcNpkn 

Perhaps the most striking failure involves the case of an accused serial rapist whose DNA was not submitted in 2012. Prosecutors say he then committed 3 more rapes. When he was arrested again in 2015, police once more failed to collect his DNA.https://propub.li/2WgehPY 

Health officials in Florida’s sugar belt failed to act on recommendations to study the health impact of cane burning, despite decades of internal research and complaints from residents.https://propub.li/3sDgLEe 

Prosecutors said Stewart, trying to collect federally backed bank loans, provided false tax forms showing his business employed 37 people for a total quarterly payroll of $960,000. His business actually employed 9 people.https://propub.li/3kDoYWQ 

China & the U.S. don’t have an extradition treaty, in part because of well-documented problems in China’s justice system. Nonetheless, Chinese fugitive hunters have stalked hundreds of people, including U.S. citizens & permanent residents.https://propub.li/3jw3M2M 

Billionaire business owners deployed lobbyists to make sure Trump’s 2017 tax bill was tailored to their benefit. Confidential IRS records show the windfall that followed.https://propub.li/2W7aMvv 

Navarro was so adamant a potential $354M contract go to an untested pharma company that he told the top official at the Biomedical Advanced Research & Development Authority, “my head is going to explode if this contract does not get immediately approved.”https://propub.li/3D1ORX9 

A new report validates many of the findings of an investigation published by the Miami Herald and ProPublica about Florida’s Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, or NICA.https://propub.li/2XQh57h 

Among the reports of deaths the company linked to serious device problems: a patient whose heart tissue was left charred after an HVAD short-circuited and voltage surged through the pump.https://propub.li/3y2gOKS 

Investigative reporting can mean bearing witness to the worst moments of people’s lives. Here’s how some of our journalists approach the gut-wrenching task of writing about suffering.https://propub.li/3ktwVMx 

The specter of mental decline among judges has been a real issue for decades. Federal judges are appointed for life, and often serve well past 70. “Impaired judges are at work right now,” said Francis Shen, of Harvard’s Center for Law, Brain & Behavior.https://propub.li/3Bdhlwk 

One of the country’s most important sources of fresh water is in peril, the latest victim of the accelerating climate crisis.https://propub.li/3mDO6xV 

An intensive care doctor broke the news. Newborn Hunter sustained “global brain damage.” “All the baby books don’t talk about that,” said his mother. “Everything that I had planned or hoped. I didn’t know what could or would be possible, at that point.”https://propub.li/37f3Eix 

One officer was indicted, accused of pepper-spraying a handcuffed woman, filing a false report & encouraging others to fake reports. He received no jail time or probation, but entered a “pretrial intervention” program that wiped charges from his record.https://propub.li/3xSeKpw