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Working with journalists in Gaza and using forensic analysis, Fault Lines spent months investigating the killing of civilians in Israeli military attacks and the United States' role in the war on Gaza.
The Night Won't End: Biden’s War on Gaza - coming this Friday on
@AJEnglish
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BREAKING: The Tennessee Supreme Court in a 3 to 2 ruling has decided that mandatory life sentences for juveniles convicted of homicide violates the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th amendment to the US constitution. 🧵 1/3
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Julian Assange is detained in a UK prison pending a US extradition request. The WikiLeaks founder is being prosecuted for publishing classified materials which exposed US military operations in the Iraq & Afghan wars.
Watch now:
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@Stella_Assange
shares with us how it’s been since her husband, Julian Assange, was arrested in 2019. He’s been held in a UK prison since, pending a US extradition request. He was charged by the US for releasing classified materials.
Watch now:
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In 2010, WikiLeaks released a video titled ‘Collateral Murder.’ It showed a US helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed more than a dozen people, including Namir and Saeed. Reuters had tried to access this footage for years through FOIA requests, but was denied by the Pentagon.
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About 33 million US workers have no paid sick leave. And the US is one of the only countries with no paid maternity leave.
The lack of paid leave has consequences for millions. We asked some of them to share their stories.
Watch 'The Impossible Choice':
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Today, WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is detained in a UK prison and is facing a 175-year sentence if extradited to the US. Assange engaged in activities that journalists engage in everyday. So what could his case mean for press freedom?
Watch now:
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While investigating the killing of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Fault Lines also learned about the lasting impact she had through her reporting in occupied Palestine. Her niece, Lina, shares a glimpse of the memories she has of her aunt
Watch now:
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EXCLUSIVE: This video was used as court evidence and shows a Louisiana jail shakedown on what turned out to be an infamous day.
Full doc:
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We sat down with one of the leading anti-vaxxers in the US. Here’s what happened.
Watch ‘The Viral Threat: Measles and Misinformation’
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Each of these people lost loved ones to US airstrikes in Afghanistan. Each was left searching to understand why, in a war where the US made few efforts to investigate civilian casualties.
Watch our 2020 investigation of Afghan civilian loss with
@TBIJ
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Earlier this year, several men accused a New York priest of sexually abusing them when they were children. Why did the Catholic Church keep him in ministry for so long? Watch ‘In Bad Faith’ /youtu.be/qfgUu2pGsI8
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A Georgia immigrant detention center entered the spotlight last fall when a whistleblower said a gynecologist had operated on detained women without their consent.
The women at the heart of the scandal are still searching for answers. Their story:
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Today marks 4 years since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and taken to the harshest prison in the UK. He is not serving a sentence, but is being held pending a US extradition request.
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In 2010, WikiLeaks partnered with several media organizations to release hundreds of thousands of classified materials exposing US military activities in the Iraq and Afghan wars.
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There’s a pathway to the US within the
#travelban
– a waiver - but few visa applicants are receiving it, including the children of US citizens. Meet Shaima, an 11-year old with cerebral palsy who was rejected for a waiver. Full film here:
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‘Collateral Murder’ sent shockwaves across the world. But it wasn't the only disclosure that unraveled the US government’s narrative about its military activities in Iraq. With other media partners, WikiLeaks published nearly 400,000 classified documents about the US war in Iraq.
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13 years ago today, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange published a video titled Collateral Murder. It exposed US crimes during the Iraq war. In 2019 the US charged Assange for releasing classified materials and he's been held in a UK prison since.
Watch now:
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After details emerged about a corrupt plainclothes unit of Baltimore detectives, Fault Lines investigates how these officers were able to remain on the street, committing crimes, for at least a decade. Full film:
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The US saw more than 300 mass shootings in 2018. No place is sacred—malls, movie theaters, places of worship—even schools.
WATCH ‘The Aftermath: Mass Shootings in America’
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What would you call a job that’s 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, unpaid, in dangerous conditions - where refusing to work could land you in prison?
WATCH ‘Recovering from Rehab’
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For the first time ever, the sitting leaders of the U.S. and North Korea will meet face-to-face. What will
@realDonaldTrump
and Kim Jong Un achieve? Meet the experts trying to make sense of Trump’s impulsive brand of leadership and its consequences:
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A US drone strike has killed 10 civilians in Kabul including several children,
@AJEnglish
reports.
The US military said it has launched investigations into the incident. Here's how those investigations have gone in the past years:
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With war raging Yemen, Yemeni-Americans hoped to bring their families to safety in the U.S. But
@realDonaldTrump
’s travel ban changed everything. How long will these families be torn apart?
#tavelban
#scotus
Full film:
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The pandemic's effects have unfolded along sharp racial lines in the US.
In our latest, we report from one of the country's most segregated cities to ask how COVID-19 exposed deep racial inequities.
Watch "The Great Divide: COVID-19 and Race in Chicago":
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ICYMI: We investigated how Israeli cyber-weapons technology is being used by governments to spy on civilians, including lawyers, journalists and dissidents.
WATCH ‘Targeted by a Text’
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Doxxing, hate mail & death threats are some of the ways in which pro-Israel advocacy groups have tried to silence & intimidate pro-Palestinian voices in the US.
Since October 7th, these attacks have intensified.
Watch our latest
#documentary
now:
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NSO Group denies its technology was used to target Jamal Khashoggi. But the Saudis reportedly paid $55 million for Pegasus in 2017 - just before Crown Prince MBS began to purge his opponents.
WATCH our investigation ‘Targeted by a Text’
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On May 11, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was reporting from Jenin in the occupied West Bank when she was shot and killed by the Israeli military. Fault Lines searches for accountability and investigates how the US has handled the case.
Out now:
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Brazil's Day of Fire was not natural - the fires were deliberately set to clear land for cattle and often illegal logging. We went to Brazil to look at how criminal networks are at the heart of deforestation in the Amazon. Watch 'Amazon Burning’
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Namir Noor-Eldeen, a Reuters photojournalist, was killed in 2007 while he was reporting in Baghdad with his colleague, Saeed Chmagh. US officials claimed they died in a firefight. But that narrative unraveled three years later.
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"As soon as [Bolsonaro] took office the removal of the trees doubled," says Turu Arara, an Indigenous leader in Brazil’s Amazon. Deforestation is at its highest point in a decade and fines for environmental crimes are down nearly 30% from last year.
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#COVID19
puts a spotlight on paid leave policies in the US: this is one of a few wealthy countries with no paid sick leave.
Fault Lines has been reporting on the human cost of America's paid leave crisis. Today we're releasing 'The Impossible Choice:'
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This powerful Israeli cyber-weapons technology has been used by governments against activists and journalists around the world.
WATCH our investigation ‘Targeted by a Text’
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Fault Lines reports on how civilian deaths from airstrikes in Afghanistan are investigated and remembered, in partnership with
@TBIJ
.
We speak with families who lost loved ones to airstrikes and ask what options they have to seek justice.
Watch here:
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Fault Lines investigates why prescription drugs prices in the U.S. are skyrocketing, and how the hefty price tag is costing lives. Watch ‘The Cost of Living’:
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BREAKING: Brandon Jackson has been granted parole. He was convicted by a non-unanimous jury in Louisiana 25 years ago.
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For a century, the United States forced Indigenous children to attend boarding schools far from their families. Many children endured abuse, and the US government is only now trying to account for those that died.
We look at the schools' lasting impact:
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Fault Lines examines what Julian Assange’s case could mean for press freedom. Watch now:
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Fault Lines searches for answers and accountability after the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli military forces. Watch our special episode this Thursday on
@ajenglish
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#BishopMalone
of the
@BuffaloDiocese
, one of the largest dioceses in the northeastern U.S., resigned today amid accusations he covered up sexual abuse.
Our film 'In Bad Faith' investigates child sex abuse allegations in another NY diocese. Here's what we learned: a thread. 1/
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The US debate on abortion hit a fever pitch this week, as multiple states passed laws to restrict abortion. What's behind this national-wide trend? We went inside America's religious right to investigate their movement's strategy.
Full film:
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With another Atlantic Hurricane season due to start again soon, Puerto Rico’s most vulnerable communities are still trying to rebuild from Hurricane Maria. Are U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico getting the federal aid they need? Full doc:
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Has international adoption become a demand-driven industry? We teamed up with
@thenation
and
@typeinvestigate
to find out. Watch our Emmy-nominated doc 'Adoption Inc: The Baby Business'
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For years, working at poultry processing plants in the US has carried high risks of injury or illness. Then the pandemic hit.
Fault Lines explores why poultry plants became COVID-19 hot spots, and what chicken companies could have done to curb the spread:
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Donald Trump has left the White House.
Today we’re sharing scenes from four years of Fault Lines documentaries investigating his administration.
In this thread, we look at how Trump's actions on immigration have changed the lives of people in the US and around the world.
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Several men have accused a New York priest of sexually abusing them when they were children. Why did the Catholic Church keep him in ministry for so long? Watch ‘In Bad Faith’ Oct 23
@AJEnglish
| YouTube and
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"What does that say about our effort to educate our children that they are in their minds preparing to potentially be killed in their own school?”
-
@JohnWoodrowCox
WATCH ‘The Aftermath: Mass Shootings in America’
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NSO Group, the company behind the powerful Pegasus cyber-weapon, has said the technology is only used to target criminals and terrorists.
@abo1fares
, a Saudi Arabian human rights activist, has seen otherwise. Watch our full 2019 documentary:
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As the Democrats prepare to take back the White House, what does this election say about the future of US politics?
We unpacked
#Election2020
and asked where the two parties will go next. Today we release our election analysis.
Watch here ➡️
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One year ago today, 10 people were killed in a mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas. Rosie Stone’s son was one of them.
Mass shootings are leaving lasting trauma on a generation of survivors and victims' families.
Watch ‘The Aftermath’:
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LA has been plagued with gang violence for decades, but they’re not just on the streets in LA.
Our latest episode investigates allegations of violence and intimidation by deputy ‘gangs’ within the LA Sheriff's Department.
For the full episode:
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On
#WorldRainforestDay
, meet the Indigenous leaders in Brazil's Amazon who risk their lives to defend the forest from illegal loggers:
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Is it legal to work unpaid 12 hours a day 7 days a week in exchange for drug rehab therapy? We teamed up with
@reveal
to investigate:
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The last super hurricane destroyed 70,000 homes in Puerto Rico. Without land titles, many of the island’s poor are struggling to get the government resources to rebuild their lives. Hear their stories. Full film:
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The US military often disputes allegations that they killed civilians in Afghanistan and doesn't routinely interview survivors or witnesses of airstrikes.
Where does that leave Afghan families who lost loved ones to airstrikes?
Fault Lines reports:
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When Brandon Jackson was convicted of a felony in 1997 Louisiana, two jurors voted not guilty.
At least 1,500 people convicted by non-unanimous juries are in Louisiana prisons today. What chance do they have at justice? We investigated with
@TheLensNOLA
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For generations, Indigenous children in US boarding schools were punished for speaking their native languages. Today many of these languages are endangered.
Meet one teacher working to keep the Arapaho language alive.
For the full story:
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The world watched in horror last August as the planet's largest rainforest was engulfed in flames. We went to Brazil to find out how criminal networks are behind the Amazon’s deforestation:
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After escaping prison in 1994, Dennis Wayne Hope was placed in solitary confinement with no meaningful contact with other human beings for 27 years
Fault Lines explores the toll solitary confinement takes on the mind and body
Watch our
#documentary
now:
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In the pandemic, what do you do when you have nowhere to shelter in place?
In California, some homeless people found empty houses and moved in. Watch their story in our latest episode:
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Our doc 'Adoption Inc: The Baby Business' is nominated for an Emmy in the
Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine category.
#NewsEmmys
WATCH here:
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More than 35,000 civilians have been killed in the war in Afghanistan since 2009.
As the US prepares to withdraw all its troops from the country, revisit our documentary on how Afghan civilian loss is investigated and remembered.
Watch the full film:
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"Our creation story tells us that if the fish die, the people die. But before that happens, we will fight because it's in our blood."
A colonial project started this western town’s intense water conflict. Can Indigenous activists end it?
Our latest:
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Should Israel be investigated for possible war crimes?
Today
@AJUpFront
debuts a new series with host
@marclamonthill
, and it's not to be missed.
▶️ Watch here:
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U.S. appeals court hands win to President Trump in
#emoluments
case involving his D.C. hotel.
Last year, we examined how Trump has mixed private business and public duties in unprecedented ways. Check out 'All the President’s Profits'
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It was while reading about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement in Canada that Carolyn DeFord realized her mother’s disappearance fit a pattern.
WATCH ‘The Search’
#MMIW
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"You call for help and they take your kids from you."
A Florida mother was beaten and strangled by her ex-husband, so why did the state take her children away from her?
We investigate Florida's child welfare agency in our latest episode:
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In recognition of World Press Freedom Day, take a look at some of the films we produced in the last year about the threats facing journalists - a thread 🧵:
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They signed up for “work-based therapy” to battle drug addiction, but ended up working for private corporations like
@walmart
,
@exxonmobil
and
@shell
. And they didn’t earn a dime.
WATCH ‘Recovering from Rehab’
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Fault Lines investigates secretive units within the
#US
#BorderPatrol
accused of covering up agent misconduct. At least 145 people have died in deadly pursuits or use-of-force incidents with USBP. No agent has been convicted in those deaths.
Watch now:🔗
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El Salvador’s crackdown on gangs has sent tens of thousands to prison. The streets are safer, but the country now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Fault Lines investigates claims of abuse and deaths in El Salvador’s justice system.
Out now:
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Hex was blocking a university speech by a right-wing provocateur. Then he was shot.
#antifa
Full film:
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Meet the Los Angeles mother who was homeless until she took over a vacant house during the pandemic:
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Mohammed’s daughter Umniah got a U.S. visa, but his wife Aziza was denied. Is there hope for families separated by the
#travelban
?
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Tucker Carlson dismissed white supremacy as a “hoax” three days after the El Paso Walmart attack.
@joshrushing
called him up to ask about his rhetoric on minorities and immigrants. Watch: License to Hate
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NSO Group denies its technology was used to target Jamal Khashoggi. But the Saudis reportedly paid $55 million for Pegasus in 2017 - just before Crown Prince MBS began to purge his opponents.
WATCH our investigation ‘Targeted by a Text’
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Do police reforms work?
In our fall season opener, Fault Lines follows this year's mass
#BlackLivesMatter
protests and a movement that wants to
#DefundThePolice
, not reform it.
Watch the full episode here:
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The world watched in horror last August as the planet's largest rainforest was engulfed in flames. We travelled to the heart of Brazil’s Amazon to see how loggers are destroying the rainforest and meet the communities fighting back.
A thread👇1/
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“The system failed Alec.” Nicole’s son died from rationing insulin within weeks of aging out of her insurance. Alec is not alone. 1/4 Americans with diabetes have rationed insulin because of skyrocketing prices. Watch ‘The Cost of Living’
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New York City’s Catholic leaders failed to inform parishioners that John Paddack, a powerful Manhattan priest, had been accused of sexually abusing minors. We asked the Archbishop of New York why he kept the accused priest in ministry for so long:
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Juveniles convicted of homicide will be granted a parole hearing after 25-36 years behind bars based on release eligibility. Age and other circumstances will be properly considered. Read the judgment here. 2/3
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“I feel like I'm very close to death. Can't hear, seeing lights, hearing voices, please help me.” This was Madaline Pitkin’s 4th request to see a doctor before dying of dehydration in jail. We investigate the $12bn for-profit prison healthcare industry:
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The US saw more than 300 mass shootings in 2018. No place is sacred—malls, movie theaters, places of worship—even schools.
WATCH ‘The Aftermath: Mass Shootings in America’
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Rosie Stone's son was killed in a mass shooting at his high school in Texas last year. Since then, she hasn't been able to sleep a night in her home.
WATCH ‘The Aftermath: Mass Shootings in America’
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Today more than 70% of the men incarcerated at California's San Quentin prison have had the coronavirus. 28 have died.
How did a prison that went on lockdown in March explode into one of the country's largest COVID-19 clusters?
Fault Lines investigates:
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Our doc 'Between War and the Ban: A Yemeni-American Story' is nominated for the Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine category.
#NewsEmmys
WATCH here:
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"There's a problem with Joe Biden or Kamala Harris saying we don't want to be too radical. Because what has happened to immigrants in this country is radical."
We asked journalist and author
@Maria_Hinojosa
how she thinks a
#JoeBiden
administration should approach immigration ⬇️
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The US and
#Guatemala
signed an agreement that requires Central American
#asylum
seekers to apply for protections in Guatemala instead of the US. Our award-winning episode "No Shelter" investigated the Trump administration's roadblocks to asylum. WATCH:
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What led to two Boeing plane crashes? And do U.S. regulators give industry too much control over safety? Watch the full Fault Lines episode here:
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What’s behind the deadly white supremacist attacks in the US? Fault Lines investigates how racism has seeped into the mainstream.
Full film:
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Meet Naina Agrawal-Hardin, a
@sunrisemvmt
organizer in Michigan.
@JoeBiden
"promises a return to normalcy,"
@nainagradin
told Fault Lines. "I don’t think that message resonates with a lot of young people right now."
Watch the full story:
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It was while reading about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement in Canada that Carolyn DeFord realized her mother’s disappearance fit a pattern.
WATCH ‘The Search: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’
#MMIW
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We covered this Tennessee Supreme Court case in our film “51 Years Behind Bars,” which investigates why Tennessee has one of the longest sentences in the country for juveniles convicted of murder. 3/3
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Despite international pressure, deforestation in the Amazon has reached its highest point in over a decade. We go to the heart of the Amazon burning and meet the small farmers and indigenous communities risking their lives to stop it.
Full film:
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