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Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.

Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane.

1 Year Ago: The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public

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A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune.

After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren’t needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.

1 Month Ago: Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

4 Weeks Ago: Tiny Footprints, a Blue Blanket: What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died of Vitamin K Deficiency

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How a 25-Cent Cancer Pill Became a Hundred-Billion-Dollar Business

Reporter David Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer and soon learned that one of his drugs sold for almost $1,000 per pill — despite the fact it cost just pennies to make. What he found out helps explain why our healthcare system is the most expensive in the world.

1 Year Ago: The Price of Remission

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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.

With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.

An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration.

3 Weeks Ago: The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

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Why We Changed Our Code of Ethics to Address Prediction Markets

In an era when people can bet on news events, we want readers to know we’re not willing to gamble with their trust.

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