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1 week ago | 
revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Nikki Frick |Brett Myers
Across the country, women seeking addiction treatment are being harassed and assaulted by men in positions of power. The problem is so pervasive that it has a name among those in the industry: the 13th Step. “I fell right into it, right into it. You know, it’s like, it’s just, you’re so vulnerable,” says a victim named Andrea. “The 13-stepper is like, um, when you take advantage of a newcomer.
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4 weeks ago | 
revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Cynthia Rodriguez |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Zulema Cobb
Dylan Bringuel remembers the exact moment they got hired by the Holiday Inn Express in Jamestown, New York. It was late August 2022, and Bringuel—who uses they/them pronouns—had recently moved across the country and was struggling to find work. Bringuel is transgender was upfront about their gender identity during the job interview. “ I was like, ‘Just so you’re aware, I am transitioning from female to male,’” they remember saying. “And they said, ‘Okay, we respect that.
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1 month ago | 
revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Nikki Frick |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Zulema Cobb
When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes and came to a shocking conclusion: In one month, the ER physician had treated at least 18 children with gunshots to the head or chest. And that’s only the patients she had time to make a note of. “They were children under the age of 12,” she says.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
revealnews.org | Michael I Schiller |Melissa Lewis |Najib Aminy |D. Victoria Baranetsky
President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son and President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to set free people who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, bring back memories of what’s considered the most controversial pardon ever: Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon. Ford’s pardon of the former president in 1974 sparked outrage among politicians and the American people.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Kate Howard |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Nikki Frick |Al Letson
In 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 on his car phone to report a shooting. He said he and his wife were leaving a birthing class at a Boston hospital when a man forced him to drive into the mixed-race Mission Hill neighborhood and shot them both. Stuart’s wife, Carol, was seven months pregnant. She would die that night, hours after her son was delivered by cesarean section, and days later, her son would die, too. Stuart said he saw the man who did it: a Black man in a tracksuit.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Cynthia Rodriguez |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Nikki Frick
In the late 1800s, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a city where African Americans thrived economically and held elected office. This did not sit well with White supremacists, who during the election of 1898 used violence to intimidate voters and overthrow the elected government. It’s considered the only successful coup d’etat in US history.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Nikki Frick |Steven Rascon
As any schoolkid might tell you, US elections are based on a bedrock principle: one person, one vote. Simple as that. Each vote carries the same weight. Yet for much of the country’s history, that hasn’t been the case. At various points, whole classes of people were shut out of voting: enslaved Black Americans, Native Americans, and poor White people. The first time women had the right to vote was in 1919. The reality is that one person, one vote is far from how American democracy actually works.
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May 25, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Nikki Frick |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Steven Rascon
As any schoolkid might tell you, U.S. elections are based on a bedrock principle: one person, one vote. Simple as that. Each vote carries the same weight. Yet for much of the country’s history, that hasn’t been the case. At various points, whole classes of people were shut out of voting: enslaved Black Americans, Native Americans and poor White people. The first time women had the right to vote was in 1919. This week’s show is about a current version of this very old problem.
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May 12, 2024 | 
thehill.com | D. Victoria Baranetsky
Even as artificial intelligence is booming and there will be reportedly 200 zezabytes of data in the world, “we are in another crisis of research access to data,” a former reporter said at Harvard this May. The culprit in that crisis is the double-headed monster of government and the private sector. The effects of this monster were evident in federal court on May 9, when the government argued that thousands forms containing basic diversity statistics of its contractors’ workforces were secret.
