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“Stop the steal,” “Hang Mike Pence,” “Fight for Trump,” his loyal followers chanted as the world watched the events unfold in Washington, D.C. The attempted insurrection occurred on the afternoon of January 6, 2021, following a “March to Save America” Rally hosted by the right-wing group Women for America First, (CNBC, Schwartz). The group got all the proper permits, expecting …

The Biden Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a 1.5 billion dollar investment to fund emergency food assistance. Feeding Indiana’s Hungry, the statewide association of Feeding America affiliated food banks, applauded the investment. According to the Map the Meal Gap study conducted by Feeding America, one out of every nine Indiana residents faces hunger. One in seven children …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 24th, 2022. Later in the program, President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he would cancel 10,000 dollars of student debt for those earning less than 125,000 dollars per year. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have the Disabulletin – a brief segment …

The Indiana Environmental Reporter says a bill that would repeal state protections for Indiana’s diminishing wetlands passed the Senate’s Environmental Affairs Committee and is headed for consideration by the full Indiana Senate despite opposition from the agencies in charge of protecting the state’s environment and natural resources. —Norm Holy Southwestern Indiana Citizens for Quality of Life and Valley Watch have …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, January 20th, 2021. Later in the program, Beacon Inc. opened a low-barrier emergency winter shelter today for people experiencing homelessness in Bloomington. The low barrier-shelter opens after two city evictions from the encampment at Seminary Park. More in today’s feature report. But first, your local news brief: Monroe County is averaging about …

Last month was officially the hottest November our planet has seen. As a direct result of climate change, this decade we are about to leave, 2011-2020, will be known as the warmest decade in history, according to the World Meteorological Organization. So what were the key events that fueled this record breaking year? As for the United States, we tied …

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has weakened yet another safeguard against air pollution in the midst of a respiratory pandemic. The agency finalized a rollback of the Clinton-era “once in, always in” policy that required major polluters like industrial plants and refineries to maintain the highest possible levels of pollution controls as long as they continued to operate, Reuters reported. …

Throughout 2019, an unprecedented amount of massive protests, marches, and strikes occurred in various countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, all commonly giving voice to the sharp inequality throughout these societies that has been produced by the increasing austerity of economic policy modeled on neoliberalism. While similar to these examples, Colombia nevertheless offers a unique case, being the country …