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WEBSeptember 24, 2024. She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away. Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels, decongestants, and Zantac. Yet newborns are being taken from parents based on the results. September 9, 2024.
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WEBReveal is the country’s first weekly investigative public radio show and podcast. Peabody Award-winning host Al Letson takes listeners across the country and the world, exposing wrongs and holding the powerful accountable. Whether it’s Amazon’s poor workplace safety record, inequity in the juvenile justice system or exploitation at drug ...
Beware the little green frog logo on your sustainable food
WEBby Bernice Yeung November 28, 2016. The Rainforest Alliance logo. That little green frog logo is everywhere: sprawled across chocolate bar wrappers, stuck to the side of tea canisters, perched on banana labels. The web-toed amphibian is the Rainforest Alliance Certified seal, a signal to consumers that the product is friendly to the planet and ...
‘If the Police Don't Believe You, They Might Prosecute You ... - Reveal
WEBSep 25, 2023 · By some estimates, more than half of women and nearly a third of men in the U.S. will experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetimes.Most of those crimes go unreported. Of the cases that make it to law enforcement, the least likely outcome is an arrest of a perpetrator. The vast majority of complaints to law enforcement end with no …
Reporting to police: A guide for victims of sexual abuse - Reveal
WEBAug 11, 2016 · In 2014 alone, more than 284,000 cases of rape and sexual assault occurred among people 12 and older, according to data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. The survey, conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, estimates that only a third of those instances were reported to police.
Modern-day redlining: Banks discriminate in lending - Reveal
WEBFeb 15, 2018 · Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts. This modern-day redlining persisted in 61 metro areas even when controlling for applicants’ income, loan amount …
Atomic veterans: The legacy of watching nuclear blasts - Reveal
WEBMay 27, 2016 · In the aftermath of World War II and during the height of the Cold War – between 1946 and 1962 – the U.S. detonated more than 200 above-ground and undersea nuclear bombs. Over three months, Brooks would witness 27 of them. The atomic bomb blasts that Brooks witnessed took place almost 13 years after Hiroshima.
The Hate Report: Get to know the Three Percenters - Reveal
WEBMar 16, 2018 · This week, three men were arrested in connection with the bombing of a Minnesota mosque. While the attack didn’t kill anyone, the reported goal was to “scare” Muslims away from living in the United States. One of the three suspects, Michael B. Hari, is a former sheriff’s deputy who submitted a proposal to build Trump’s border wall.
The Disinformation Campaign Behind a Top Pregnancy Website
WEBApr 22, 2022 · Last month, I traveled to Jacksonville, Florida, to learn about how Brad Imler had parlayed his experience as a crisis pregnancy center hotline worker into creating the website of the American Pregnancy Association.Early on a Tuesday morning, I arrived in the lobby of a Hyatt Regency hotel to pick up my badge for the 51st annual conference …
US Bans Sugar Imports From Top Dominican Producer Over …
WEBNov 23, 2022 · A Central Romana Corp. worker prepares a field for an upcoming sugar crop in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Credit: Pedro Farias-Nardi. The United States will block shipments of raw sugar from a top Dominican producer with close ties to two wealthy Florida businessmen after finding indications of forced labor at its sprawling Caribbean …