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More than 230 environmental groups have urged Congress to impose a national moratorium on new AI and cloud datacenters, arguing that the industry’s voracious appetite for electricity and cooling water is driving up power bills, worsening the climate crisis and reshaping local politics around energy costs.
theguardian.com · 8 Dec 2025
A police investigation has found that Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican congresswoman, turned a “minor miscommunication” by police into a “spectacle” when she involved herself in a heated confrontation with staff at Charleston’s airport in late October. According to an internal investigation by the Charleston airport police department and obtained by the Washington Post, Mace berated officers and Transportation Security Administration ( TSA) personnel on 30 October with profanity and insults, leaving facility employees “visibly upset”. The investigative report, dated 12 November, said there had been some confusion over whether the congresswoman would arrive at the airport in a white BMW when she in fact arrived in a silver model. That led to a delay in meeting up with an escort to take her through the security line at the airport.
Connecticut Inside Investigator reports that a prominent climate nonprofit, once buoyed by grants from Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, is laying off staff and scaling back projects as that support ends — highlighting how dependent many grassroots groups are on the priorities of a few mega-donors instead of broad local backing.
A ProPublica investigation finds that some federally qualified community health centers — meant to provide sliding-scale care to low-income patients — filed thousands of lawsuits over relatively small unpaid bills, garnishing wages and bank accounts even while receiving generous federal subsidies intended to keep care accessible.
In a collaboration with Idaho Capital Sun, InvestigateWest follows women who reported sexual abuse in Idaho’s women’s prisons only to see internal investigations stall or disappear, showing how weak oversight and opaque complaint systems leave staff largely unaccountable while survivors fear retaliation for speaking out.
Writing for the Missouri Independent, infectious-disease physicians warn that measles, whooping cough and other once-rare illnesses are resurging as federal health messaging is politicized, vaccine programs are undermined, and pseudoscientific “natural” remedies gain traction — eroding decades of progress against diseases that modern medicine already knows how to stop.