(“Trump Admin Mulls Payments to Sway Greenlanders to Join US,” Reuters, Jan. 8, 2026; “Buy Greenland? Take it? An Old Treaty Already Gives Trump a Free Hand,” New York Times, Jan. 8, 2026; “Trump Ramps Up Greenland Threats And Says US Will Interfere,” Guardian, Jan. 9, 2026)
The Guardian reports United Healthcare, the largest healthcare insurance company in the U.S., is refusing to provide critical internal documents to a U.S. Senate investigation into UHC’s efforts to reduce nursing home patient transfers to hospitals in order to reduce costs.
(“Senators Claim United Healthcare is Withholding Internal Documents,” Guardian, Jan. 8, 2026; “United Healthcare Secretly Paid Nursing Homes to Reduce Hospital Transfers,” Guardian, May. 21, 2025)
Western Pennsylvania is dealing with decades of toxic pollution from recent fracking waste and old abandoned coal mines, creating new threats to public health. Over the course of more than a decade, the Westmoreland landfill southeast of Pittsburgh accepted hundreds of thousands of tons of oil and gas wastewater, toxic and often radioactive byproducts that include radionuclides like radium, uranium and thorium as well as harmful substances like arsenic, lead and benzene.
(“The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Penn Waterways,” Inside Climate News, Dec. 21, 2025)
