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Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas.
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The story is republished here with permission. In 2014, one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies purchased a string of properties on a quiet residential street in […]
The Cold War legacy lurking in U.S. groundwater
In America’s rush to build the nuclear arsenal that won the Cold War, safety was sacrificed for speed. Uranium mills that helped fuel the weapons also dumped radioactive and toxic waste into rivers like the Cheyenne in South Dakota and the Animas in Colorado. Thousands of sheep turned blue and died after foraging on land tainted by processing […]