Reading archive 2025-07-22

In D.C., a toddler died of hunger and thirst. Why didn’t anybody save her?: The District’s child welfare agency was aware of Ebony Washington’s troubled history as a parent. And for months, relatives feared her daughter Kemy was in peril. Then tragedy struck. - "And he had another reason for not calling CFSA, he said: As a child, he had spent time in foster care, and he was determined to spare Kemy the emotional tumult that he had endured, landing in a stranger’s home.

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"He had chosen not to call CFSA when Kemy was alive, but he said he doesn’t dwell on that now."

House largely grinds to a halt over Epstein files: Republicans on the House Rules Committee, fearing Democrats will introduce amendments related to Epstein, continue to oppose allowing any legislation to reach the floor.

Detention of two Italians at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ sparks backlash at home: Lawmakers called for Italy’s conservative government to do more to secure the repatriation of two nationals held at the new facility in Florida’s Everglades.

Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change Management Challenge: Do Not Sell! Ornamental invasive plants to avoid with climate change

Fighting Invasive Plants: The Ones We’ve Got and Those We Think Are Coming Experts want to combat new species of plants that are moving around within the United States, and coming from around the world, before they get a foothold.

Becoming Earth: Experimental Theology - "We humans emerge, walk around as if we were one thing, willingly oblivious to our true nature, and then we dissolve in order to emerge again in a wholly different form. Dissolution and reunification, forever and ever, amen."