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After years of allowing chronically underenrolled public schools to struggle, Chicago is spending millions to transform three into STEAM academies, hoping to draw families back to the neighborhood schools that many of them abandoned.

An executive order seeking to stop banks from discriminating against customers could be undermined by the administration's gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had been investigating the practice.

The previously unreported details were revealed in the over 25,000 pages of records the school district has disclosed since Aug. 26 in response to a yearslong legal fight by news outlets, including ProPublica and The Texas Tribune.

One Illinois man's decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it's possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains focused on soybeans and corn.

Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy. Under Trump, those programs may weaken further.

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state's regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.

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Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life -- even though the only two Black jurors had voted not guilty.

The Defense Department is opening an investigation to determine if the tech giant's use of overseas engineers to maintain sensitive U.S. government computer systems compromised national security.

When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.