January 30, 2012 -
Despite detailed challenges to the medical evidence, the prosecutor says he sees no change in the facts of a Texas case involving the death of a baby.
January 27, 2012 -
The Gulf Coast is disappearing underwater while political leaders fail to act.
January 27, 2012 -
With South Carolina's new voter ID bill facing federal scrutiny, a Republican official claimed to have found over 900 cases of dead voters casting a ballot. But then the claims started to unravel, and officials won't release the list of supposedly suspect voters.
January 26, 2012 -
As bipartisan political pressure builds to promote natural gas development, the Sierra Club unveils a campaign opposing the controversial drilling method known as "fracking" in North Carolina, where the practice is still illegal.
January 26, 2012 -
The Ernie Lopez case highlights the growing international controversy over the reliability of the science used to prosecute cases of fatal child abuse and sexual assault.
January 25, 2012 -
As the Environmental Protection Agency readies a long-awaited report on a class of health-damaging pollutants known as dioxins, we look at the biggest industrial dioxin sources in the U.S. -- and find that the South bears a disproportionate toxic burden.
January 24, 2012 -
With Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich erroneously claiming that "more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history," we take a by-the-numbers look at the food assistance program.