"Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai Is Convicted of National Security Charges"
"The former publisher of a pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison."
Source: CJR, 12/16/2025
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As Realty Risk Data Is Pulled From Web, Alternatives Are Ready
As one data source disappears, another often emerges, finds Reporter’s Toolbox, as it searches for ways to report on real estate risk. In our latest column, insight into where to find information on home hazards, especially from climate change, plus smart ways to use the data for your reporting and some emerging gaps to be aware of.
A Town Derailed, a Trust Obtained
The devastating 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, toxic train derailment left a legacy of illness and a town torn by competing understandings of the contamination’s aftereffects. A yearlong reporting initiative with photojournalist Rebecca Kiger and Time magazine writer Alejandro de la Garza worked to gain the community’s confidence and tell its story. Their prize-winning feature, in the latest Inside Story Q&A.
"FDA Moves To Approve New Sunscreen Ingredient Used In Asia And Europe
"The FDA has proposed adding bemotrizinol, a new sunscreen ingredient, to the U.S. approval list, which could expand consumer options and help prevent skin cancer."
Source: Washington Post, 12/15/2025
"Green California’s Big Oil Problem"
"While Gov. Newsom touted the state’s environmental efforts at the UN climate summit, toxic spills and a new law speeding drilling tarnished its reputation at home."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/15/2025
"FirstEnergy Bribery Scheme Sank Lake Erie Offshore Wind, Lawsuit Says"
"The corruption that led to Ohio’s infamous HB 6 also torpedoed what would have been the Great Lakes’ first wind farm, the suit alleges. FirstEnergy is pushing back."
Source: Canary Media, 12/15/2025
"Colorado River Water Is Too Cheap, Particularly for Agricultural Users"
"A new report from UCLA and the Natural Resources Defense Council found nearly a quarter of Colorado River water is basically provided for free by the federal government."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/15/2025
Trump FWS Delays Decision On Federal Protections For Monarch Butterflies
"President Donald Trump’s administration has delayed a decision on whether to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies indefinitely despite years of warnings from conservationists that populations are shrinking."
Source: AP, 12/15/2025
Climate Change, New Mining May Push Alaska’s Arctic Past The Brink
"Ice blocks drift past Tristen Pattee’s boat as he scans the banks of Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk River for caribou. His great uncle Ernest steadies a rifle on his lap. It’s the last day of September, and by every measure of history and memory, thousands should have crossed by now. But the tundra is empty, save for the mountains looming on the horizon — the Gates of the Arctic National Park."
Source: AP, 12/15/2025
"Hundreds Quarantined As South Carolina Measles Outbreak Accelerates"
"South Carolina’s measles outbreak is “accelerating” in the wake of Thanksgiving travel and a lack of vaccinations, an epidemiologist for the state’s Department of Public Health (DPH) warned Wednesday, after authorities traced a sizable outbreak to a church in the state’s northwest."
Source: Washington Post, 12/15/2025
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