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Report: DOJ Officially Decides Not to Prosecute Matt Gaetz

Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Department of Justice has elected not to press charges against Rep. Matt Gaetz after a years-long sex-trafficking probe, according to a CNN source familiar with the subject. In late 2020, during the Trump administration,…

OSHA Is (Finally) Investigating the Hell Out of Amazon

Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Jennifer Crane pulled a 50-pound tote off the conveyor belt, boxed it up at her station, and pushed it back on the belt to be labeled and shipped. Mindful of her quota—70 packages an hour for up…

“Slander”: College Board Blasts DeSantis Attacks on African American Course

AP Photo/Marta Lavandier Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Late on Saturday evening, the College Board responded to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wave of attacks on education in Florida accusing the state’s Department of Education of criticizing the Advanced Placement African American studies course, and its use in…