
Steven Rascon
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3 weeks ago |
revealnews.org | Anayansi Diaz-Cortes |Nikki Frick |Zulema Cobb |Steven Rascon
This month, some of the nation’s best and brightest teenage girls will gather in Mobile, Alabama, to embark on two of the most intense weeks of their lives. Everybody wants the same thing: to walk away with a $40,000 college scholarship and the title of Distinguished Young Woman of America. Reporter Shima Oliaee competed for Nevada when she was a teenager and was invited back as a judge 20 years later. Oliaee accepted, all while recording it for a six-part audio series calledThe Competition.
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1 month ago |
revealnews.org | Nikki Frick |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb |Jim Briggs
It’s been just over 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie. But back then, in the wake of 9/11, the battlefield was filled with troops who believed in serving and defending the country against terrorism. “Going to Fallujah was the most horrific experience of our lives,” said Mike Ergo, a team leader for the US Marines Alpha Company, 1st Battalion.
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2 months ago |
revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Jenny Casas |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb
Adam Aurand spent nearly a decade of his life stuck in a loop. He cycled for years among emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, jails, and the streets in and around Seattle. During that time, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder. He also used opioids and methamphetamine. Each time he entered an institution for care or incarceration, he was released back into homelessness. And the cycle started again.
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Mar 29, 2025 |
revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Brett Myers |Nikki Frick |Steven Rascon
At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and America was entering the era of mass incarceration, with tough sentencing laws ballooning the criminal justice system. As California’s prison population surged, so did prison violence. “You learn that in order to survive, you yourself then have to become predatorial,” Morris says.
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Mar 22, 2025 |
revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Jenny Casas |Kate Howard |Steven Rascon
When Andrea Dettore-Murphy first moved to Rankin County, Mississippi, she didn’t believe the stories she heard about how brutal the sheriff’s department could be when pursuing suspected drug crimes. But in 2018, she learned the hard way that the rumors were true when a group of sheriff’s deputies raided the home of her friend Rick Loveday and beat him relentlessly while she watched.
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