In 1978, just a year after the Environmental Protection Agency began to ban PCBs, 30,000 gallons of oil containing the widely used chemical additives were secretly dumped in North Carolina.
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BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Six months into Kash Patel’s tenure as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a newly compiled internal report from a national alliance of retired and active-duty FBI agents and analysts delivers a stark warning about what the Bureau has become under his leadership.
About 1.6 million Americans have been removed from Medicaid during the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to new numbers from the health research group KFF, per Newsweek.
Monday’s adoption came amid intensified pressure by the United States amid weeks of political maneuvering by members of the presidential council, whose tenure is supposed to end on Feb. 7. 2026. Some members of the council had been attempting to use the law and its proposed date for elections as leverage to extend their tenure in office beyond February, and to oust Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé.
Latest update , as of December 2, 2025, on the National Guard shooting in Washington, D.C.
In a significant moment for the labor movement, Roxanne Brown, set to become the first African American woman elected as President of the United Steelworkers (USW), North America’s largest industrial union, joins Make It Plain with Rev. Mark Thompson. With the official transition happening in March, Brown’s ascent is more than just a personal achievement; it represents a shift in the labor movement’s leadership reflecting the demographics of today’s workforce.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Comcast said Wednesday it is expanding eligibility for its Internet Essentials program to households earning up to 200% of the federal poverty level, making a family of four with an annual income of $64,300 or less eligible for the service.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In a ruling signed by a federal court and signed by a Judge nominated by President Donald Trump, new congressional maps created by the Texas GOP have been blocked.
So it’s hardly surprising when Trump degrades female reporters. But the president reached a new low even for him when he referred to Bloomberg News White House correspondent reporter Catherine Lucey as “Piggy” last week aboard Air Force One.
Viola Ford Fletcher — known to the world as Mother Fletcher is the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and one of the most powerful living witnesses to America’s suppressed history. Born in 1914, she was only seven years old when mobs burned the prosperous Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, destroying her family’s home, livelihood, and sense of safety in a single night. For nearly a century she carried those memories quietly, but with unshakable clarity the screams, the smoke, the terror in the streets, the planes overhead. When she finally testified before Congress at age 107, her words cut through the nation’s conscience and reignited a global demand for justice and reparations.