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A young mother of four was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Now a local council member is calling for a federal investigation into Tasia Fortune’s death. Her case comes as questions still surround the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. Suri Crowe reports.

The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the federal government over plans to allow cattle grazing on more than 24 million previously restricted federal acres across the West, including the Pony Express Trail in Utah. Read more from @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Conservationists sue feds over plan to allow cattle grazing on 24 million western acres • Utah News Dispatch

The Center for Biological Diversity filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oregon alleging more grazing will harm species in the West.

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Sex trafficking investigations stalled and prosecutions declined in the past six months because of staffing shortages, funding cuts and immigration enforcement, according to Reuters interviews with 25 former prosecutors, current agents and victims' advocates. Read the special report reut.rs/4fWSJ1k

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Did you know that Chicago is the deadliest American city for migrating birds? Chicago lies in a major flight path for millions of migratory birds. Contact your alderman below to co-sponsor the Bird-Friendly Building Design Ordinance. @chicagobirder.bsky.social chicagocollisionscoalition.org

Chicago Collisions Coalition: A New Bird-Friendly Building Law

Chicago residents can ask the city council to prevent bird-window collisions through a new mandatory bird-friendly building design ordinance.

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CORCA: a bill that hides a power grab by Trump's DHS & ICE. Why are Democratic senators like our own Durbin & Duckworth cosponsors?? "Combating Organized Retail Crime Act" isn't about reducing retail crime; it's about empowering ICE/DHS. CHANGE COURSE NOW, @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov!

Opinion | A new shoplifting bill obscures a dangerous loophole for ICE

CORCA empowers DHS to collect sensitive personal information from retail shoppers and share that information with agencies including ICE.

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This is the Trump administration’s ethos: The lives of people who aren’t worthy of citizenship have no value. When ICE kills someone, when the administration rewrites the truth to exonerate the killers, that drive to dehumanize cannot be covered up. trib.al/SGxpL7W

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A growing outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite, which causes severe diarrhea, has sickened more than 1,200 people across the U.S. Experts say the true number is much higher. In March 2025, RFK Jr. dissolved the CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, which monitored parasitic diseases

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“All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van … They came in and started shooting from the sides.” Consistent testimony from all three men who were with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo when ICE killed him. DHS is pressuring them to leave the US before they’re deported:

Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers

Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.

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