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After Deadly Warehouse Collapse, Amazon Workers Say They Receive Virtually No Emergency TrainingKen KlippensteinAmazon employees have been discouraged from taking time off for natural disasters because it would slow down production.
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Startup Pitched Tasing Migrants From Drones, Video RevealsSam BiddleWell-funded Brinc positions its use of robots as nonviolent, but an early promo video undercuts this message.
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The Mysterious Case of Joe Biden and the Future of Drone WarsJeremy ScahillThe handling of the Kabul strike is an ominous sign that while Biden has pledged to review the drone program, a long-standing mechanism for self-exoneration remains entrenched.
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Vaccine Makers Funneled Undisclosed Campaign Cash to Democrats and Republicans in 2020Lee FangBiotechnology Innovation Organization, the trade group for Pfizer and Moderna, made large dark-money donations during the 2020 election, a new filing reveals.
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Medicare Privatization Scheme Faced Legal Questions About ProfiteeringRyan Grim, Austin AhlmanGovernment attorneys expressed concerns that the Medicare direct contracting model — begun by Trump and continued under Biden — was geared to benefit specific companies.
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Journal Retracts Paper Based on DNA of Vulnerable Chinese MinoritiesMara HvistendahlThe retraction by Human Genetics follows a scientist’s efforts to expose research that is complicit in human rights violations.
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U.S. Sanctions Could Starve Millions of Afghans. Will Congress Act?Lee Fang, Paul AbowdDesigned to punish the Taliban, a U.S. freeze on Afghan assets and aid has inflicted food shortages on the country’s people instead.
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Louisiana Policy Intended to Reform Solitary Confinement Still Leaves People in Indefinite LockdownEli Cahan, Nick ChrastilOfficials say the total number of people in restrictive housing has gone down, but the state doesn’t keep enough data to substantiate that claim.
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The Intercept’s 2021 Annual Staff Demographic SurveyThe InterceptAccording to the 2021 results, 60 percent of our staff identify as white and 34 percent identify as people of color.
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