Student-on-Student Sexual Assaults as Young as Age 5 Associated Press Journalists spent a year investigating sexual assaults in elementary, middle and high schools and found that they occurred almost anywhere students were left unsupervised, including on buses and in hallways. There were 17,000 official reports of student-on-student sexual assault over four years, with some victims just kindergarteners. Fast-Food Chicken With a Side of Immigrant Exploitation ProPublica/The New Yorker Case Farms produces nearly a billion pounds of chicken annually for school lunch programs and customers such as Kentucky Fried Chicken, Popeyes, Taco Bell and Boar's Head. It also has some of the most dangerous workplaces in the U.S., employing a lot of illegal immigrants. When plant workers get hurt or fight back, they can expect Case to use America's immigration laws against them. The FBI Translator Who Went Rogue and Married an ISIS Terrorist CNN An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative she'd been assigned to investigate. The translator then lied to the FBI about the trip and warned her husband he was under investigation. But prosecutors charged her with only a minor offense in a secret deal for her cooperation. Horrible Sewer Smell Costs Iowa City Almost $1.6 Million Sioux City Journal The city's sewer line smells so bad that it's forced dozens of families to move out of their homes, with taxpayers covering most of those costs--including almost $500,000 for lodging and meals for the displaced residents. Facing Financial Squeeze, Hospitals Nationwide Are Cutting Jobs STAT News Hospitals nationwide are cutting jobs amid a whirlwind of financial pressures — and sharp fears about the direction the GOP will steer health care policy. Under Trump Tax Plan, We Might All Want to Become Corporations New York Times Unless revised in actual legislation, the Trump tax plan would give millions of Americans the opportunity to cut their tax rate to 15 percent by essentially turning themselves into small business entities. |