When wildfire smoke smothers US cities and communities, suddenly creating a hazardous air quality event, workers like Leichenger say they’re left gasping for help to keep doing their jobs.

The enduring moral hypocrisy of the death penalty in America has had perhaps no better vehicle for exposure—in recent memory—than via Alabama’s gassing to death of human beings with nitrogen.

A hospice facility in Iowa has been fined $10,000 after it mistakenly presumed a woman dead hours before she was discovered gasping for air inside a body bag at a funeral home, officials said.