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Shelves normally meant for baby formula sit nearly empty at a store in downtown Washington, D.C., on May 22.

As the baby formula crisis worsens, it's also magnifying disparities in the U.S.

2:27pm June 02, 2022

by Jason Breslow

Empty store shelves. Frustrated parents. The formula shortage has upended life for millions of families across the nation and magnified longtime disparities in how infants receive nutrition.

How the Southern Baptist Convention covered up its widespread sexual abuse scandal

1:49pm June 02, 2022

by Terry Gross

In 2019, Houston Chronicle journalist Robert Downen helped break the story about sexual abuse within the SBC. That led the church to commission its own independent study, which suggested a coverup.

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A guard tower and prison yard at the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., in 2009. Five men have been killed at Thomson since 2019, making the facility one of the deadliest federal prisons in the country.

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Lawmakers call for probe into deadly federal prison

1:48pm June 02, 2022

Following a Marshall Project/NPR report detailing violence and abuse at the newest federal penitentiary, three members of Congress asked the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Oct. 19, 2021. Wyden says he has long been concerned about the algorithms used by his state's child welfare system.

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Oregon is dropping an artificial intelligence tool used in child welfare system

1:12pm June 02, 2022

by The Associated Press

Officials will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a process that officials say will make more racially equitable decisions.

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5 books that try to help explain the unexplainable: the U.S. gun violence epidemic

12:49pm June 02, 2022

by Fi O'Reilly

The problem of American gun violence is persistent and solutions are hard to come by. But here are 5 books that help put a face to the victims, explain how we got here and how we might get out.

Emergency personnel respond to a shooting at the Natalie Medical Building on Wednesday in Tulsa, Okla.

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5 people dead at Tulsa medical building, in the 233rd mass shooting of 2022

12:35pm June 02, 2022

by Fernando Alfonso III

"Four innocents and one shooter" are dead, says Jonathan Brooks of the Tulsa police department at a news conference on Wednesday.

John Hinckley arrives at U.S. District Court in Washington in 2003. A judge said Hinckley's release from conditions would occur as planned June 15.

John Hinckley, who shot Reagan, will be free of court restrictions June 15

11:25am June 02, 2022

by The Associated Press

John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is saying thank you to the people who helped him win freedom from court oversight.

Petro and Halyna Terzi in their new apartment in Auburn, Maine. The Terzis fled Ukraine in the early days of the war and lived with a family in Poland while they waited for their tourist visas.

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Some Ukrainian refugees find new homes in Maine with help from a fellow expat

10:32am June 02, 2022

by Ari Snider

Without help from a resettlement agency, many Ukrainians rely on family or volunteers. Oleg Opalnyk, who has lived in Maine since 2001 and owns rental properties, is supporting 11 Ukrainian evacuees.

School bus driver Monique Wilson, in the blue shirt, started coming to a Norfolk food pantry a few months ago because of inflation. She says she and her husband have stopped going out to eat and are consolidating trips to save on gas.

Demand at food banks is way up again. But inflation makes it harder to meet the need

10:10am June 02, 2022

by Jennifer Ludden

High food and gas prices are squeezing working families, sending some to food pantries for the first time. But providers are struggling with high costs, fewer donations and supply chain woes.

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Students wait outside Everest College in Industry, Calif., in April, 2015, hoping to get their transcriptions and information on loan forgiveness and transferring credits to other schools.

U.S. will forgive $5.8 billion of loans to Corinthian Colleges students

10:09am June 02, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Students affected do not have to take any further action to secure their funds, and the Department of Education will begin notifying those students soon, the agency said.