Taki Telonidis

2 months ago | revealnews.org | Michael I Schiller |Taki Telonidis |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb

Decades before Covid-19, the AIDS epidemic tore through communities in the US and around the world. It has killed and continues to take lives today. But early on, research and public policy focused on AIDS as a gay men’s disease, overlooking other vulnerable groups—including communities of color and women. “We literally had to convince the federal government that there were women getting HIV,” says activist Maxine Wolfe.

2 months ago | revealnews.org | Taki Telonidis |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb |Nikki Frick

In November 2005, a group of US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The case against them became one of the most high-profile war crimes prosecutions in US history—but then it fell apart. Only one Marine went to trial for the killings, and all he received was a slap on the wrist. Even his own defense attorney found the outcome shocking. “It’s meaningless,” said attorney Haytham Faraj. “The government decided not to hold anybody accountable.

Jan 25, 2025 | revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Zulema Cobb |Taki Telonidis |Champe Barton

Police talk a lot about getting guns off the street. But thousands of their own guns are ending up at crime scenes after police put them up for sale.

Jan 18, 2025 | revealnews.org | Zulema Cobb |Taki Telonidis |Jasper Craven |Brett Myers

Posted inVeterans Twenty years after the Battle of Fallujah, Marines still wrestle with what they were asked to do in Iraq.

Nov 2, 2024 | revealnews.org | Zulema Cobb |Taki Telonidis |Anayansi Diaz-Cortes |Artis Curiskis

Posted inAccountability In 1898, a stolen election in North Carolina laid the foundations of the Jim Crow South and much of the structural racism that continues today.