Maddy Lauria

South Africa’s Coast Is Rising—And Scientists Have a New Explanation Why Human water management contributes to sinking land across the globe, and it may also be responsible for an unexpected rise

“The presence of water, either as ice and snow on the land surface or as groundwater below, and the removal of that water are intimately tied to the deformation of the ground’s surface.”

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

Rite Aid closes all remaining stores after 63 years in business "All Rite Aid stores have now closed. We thank our loyal customers for their many years of support." Rite Aid, once one of America's biggest pharmacy chains, shuttered its remaining 89 stores this wee...

Rite Aid closes all remaining stores after 63 years in business

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Title Climate change is global. But the impacts are local. White search bar underneath then two dark blue boxes side by side. One for New Orleans, the other for Boston. Each showing different fall impacts from climate change. Icons for heat, hurricanes, rainfall, sea level rise and severe weather are present.

Climate change is global. But the impacts are felt locally. Climate Central has a new feature that can help you tell your city’s climate story, finding the impacts that matter the most for you and your community. 1/2
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Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved.

Trump today:

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Some Delaware news that might have been missed yesterday

Suffering from a dangling tooth on a broken jaw, grizzled Fat Bear Week veteran 32 “Chunk” became the 2025 champion.

Now in its 11th year, the annual bracket tournament celebrates the bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve as they bulk up for hibernation. https://wapo.st/3ICxdB4

New bill would impose more regulations on data centers looking to set up shop in Delaware As part of a ramped up effort to monitor large-scale data centers in Delaware, a new senate bill would require a regulatory approval process.

Delaware will certainly miss Sarah's reporting. Interesting to see some legislation addressing people's concerns about the pending data center near Delaware City - www.delawarepublic.org/politics-gov...

Senate Special Property Reassessment & House Special Property Reassessment Joint Committee Meeting Senate Special Property Reassessment & House Special Property Reassessment Joint Committee Meeting

The hearing continues momentarily, with public comment and committee Q&As expected this afternoon. sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00329/Harmon...

Wilmington seeks to fix reassessment by seeing inside homes Wilmington leaders are proposing a plan to fix disputed property assessments by reviewing the inside of residents' homes.

Of note during today’s reassessment committee meeting in Dover is that Tyler Technologies mentioned “re-gentrification” in explaining how localized values can get lost in mass reassessments, which are based on modeling rather than actual in-person evals btw.

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Trump's TikTok deal payment criticized as 'shakedown scheme' by experts The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion."

NEW: The Trump admin asking TikTok investors for a multibillion-dollar payment to US is the latest extractive “fee for service” from WH.

"These are shakedown schemes…I'd even call it extortion…Privately, CEOs are horrified."

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The uphill battle ahead: Four different leaders, four different takes on global warming At the United Nations this week, four leaders showed why tackling climate change is complex. U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as a scam, claiming renewable energy would harm the ec...

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Always here to learn more about the corporate franchise and how chancery functions.

Appreciate the insight!

“If your last name isn’t Murdoch or Sulzberger, the days of family control of publicly traded newspaper companies is over.”

Curious how so?

Law Firms Sued Over La. Hurricane Claim Fee Scheme - Law360 Two law firms and certain attorneys engaged in a scheme to "grossly and blatantly" inflate damages estimates for hurricane-related property insurance claims in order to "collect an exorbitant fee which they would all share," a group of seven Louisiana residents told a Louisiana federal court.

Two law firms and certain attorneys engaged in a scheme to "grossly and blatantly" inflate damages estimates for hurricane-related property insurance claims in order to "collect an exorbitant fee which they would all share," Louisiana residents said.

News outlets, lawmakers condemn new Pentagon restrictions on journalists The policy requires reporters to pledge they won’t gather any information that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release or risk losing their media credentials.

After we reported on the Pentagon's new draconian demands on the press, lawmakers and media organizations — including The Washington Post— condemned the government's policy as an affront to the First Amendment. My latest for @washingtonpost.com:

Does drinking beer make you more attractive to mosquitoes? Experiments performed at a large music festival suggest the bloodsuckers are more attracted to hedonistic attendees

Beer drinkers were 44% more attractive to mosquitoes than people who had abstained for at least 12 hours, cannabis users were 35% more attractive, and those who had slept with someone else the night before were 46% more attractive, new research finds. https://scim.ag/3Vk5rMw

NPR to trim $5 million this year as public radio stations struggle to pay bills NPR plans to make trims totaling more than $5 million over the course of the coming fiscal year to bring its annual budget into balance. Meanwhile, local stations are asking for more help.

NPR to trim $5 million as some public radio stations struggle to pay bills

My story for NPR

NPR cuts $5 million as public radio stations struggle to pay bills

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Bob Woodward Remembers Robert Redford

NEW: "I loved him." Bob Woodward remembers Robert Redford

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Improving water quality as a business: Why downstream users think it’s worth footing the bill - Delaware Currents In parts of the Delaware River watershed, some players are embracing the idea of partnerships to improve water quality.

Getting finance, science and policy all on the same ground to support efforts like these has been years in the making, said Ashley Allen Jones of the nonprofit Conservation Innovation Fund. More from me at delawarecurrents.org/2025/09/15/d.... Time will tell how this effort fares moving forward.

A group of journalists gathered at Lebanon's Martyrs’ Square in Beirut to express support for their Palestinian colleagues reporting in Gaza, holding the pictures of some of the 274 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since it began its war on the enclave.

Fox bosses privately called U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro 'reckless maniac' and more Her colleagues made those remarks after the 2020 presidential election, when Pirro used her platform to amplify baseless claims of election fraud. She is now the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.

Fox News execs called Jeanine Pirro 'reckless maniac' and more when she was a network star

My NPR story

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Toxic emissions reduced at Croda’s chemical plant Why Should Delaware Care?For years, residents and environmental advocates have been raising alarms about the potentially hazardous impacts that manufacturing a known carcinogen may bring to communitie...

My latest local environmental coverage for @spotlightdelaware.bsky.social. The data shows emissions are down but residents still feel out of the loop.

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Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects

Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/c...

Protecting the highway from Mother Nature “Ocean Highway damaged by storm.” Sound familiar? Delaware officials have been battling with Mother Nature ever since a road was created on the...

Protecting the highway from Mother Nature

Trump administration halts construction of nearly finished offshore wind farm Ørsted’s Revolution Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island is hit with a stop-work order over vague ​“national security” concerns.

Trump administration halts construction of nearly finished offshore wind farm.

Ørsted’s Revolution Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island is hit with a stop-work order over vague ​“national security” concerns.

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