The Best of the Week’s News

• The Rob Porter scandal becomes John Kelly’s disgrace. 
   
• A new Black Lung epidemic alarms doctors and cripples miners. 
   
• Trump may try to deport Green Card holders who receive public benefits like Medicaid. 
   
• The FDA uses junk science to smear kratom, a promising natural treatment for opioid addiction. 
   

The Best of the Week’s News

• How the IndyStar brought down Larry Nassar by exposing the biggest sex abuse scandal in sports history. 
   
• Why Mueller’s probably mulling an obstruction charge against Donald Trump. 
   
• A 12-year-old with epilepsy battles Jeff Sessions over medical marijuana. 
   
• Do you miss us now? Democrats pay dire price for neglecting organized labor. 

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

• The creator of the “Media Men” spreadsheet speaks out. 
   
• Dick Durbin confirms that the president slurred Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries.” 
   
• Poynter and the American Society of News Editors take the Koch Foundation’s dirty money.
   
• Carrier workers laid off, despite Trump’s promises  

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

• Hillman Prize-winner Jamie Kalven wins his legal battle to protect his sources! Thanks to all who signed our statement of support.
   
• Study: Employers would steal $5.8 billion in tips under Trump administration’s proposed rule 
   
• Deaths from trench accidents doubled in 2016.
   
• A Kentucky state legislator takes his own life after two Sidney Award-winners expose him as a fraud and a predator