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Burden higher for nonprofit hospitals, Illinois Supreme Court says

August 22, 2021 at 8:43 p.m.

An Illinois Supreme Court decision Thursday puts nonprofit hospitals on notice that they must provide an adequate amount of charity care to patients or risk losing significant tax exemptions. The...

Before-and-after air views show the effects herbicides had when sprayed in Vietnam during the war. Above is an unsprayed mangrove forest, date unknown, and the bottom image is of the same area in 1970. It was sprayed in 1965.

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: Defoliants more dangerous than they had to be

June 18, 2018 at 11:01 p.m.

Part 5 of a Tribune investigation unearths documents showing that decisions by the U.S. military and chemical companies that manufactured the defoliants used in Vietnam made the spraying more dangerous...

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: Defoliants more dangerous than they had to be

August 22, 2021 at 6:40 p.m.

Part 5 of a Tribune investigation unearths documents showing that decisions by the U.S. military and chemical companies that manufactured the defoliants used in Vietnam made the spraying more dangerous...

Grave consequence to silence

August 22, 2021 at 9:29 a.m.

As the U.S. military aggressively ratcheted up its spraying of Agent Orange over South Vietnam in 1965, the government and the chemical companies that produced the defoliant knew it posed...

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: Defoliants more dangerous than they had to be

May 13, 2019 at 3:55 p.m.

Part 5 of a Tribune investigation unearths documents showing that decisions by the U.S. military and chemical companies that manufactured the defoliants used in Vietnam made the spraying more dangerous...

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: At former U.S. bases in Vietnam, a potent poison is clear and present danger

August 22, 2021 at 6:40 p.m.

Part 4 of a Tribune investigation finds that a former U.S. air bases in Vietnam remain highly polluted by defoliants, but the U.S. has done little to clean up the...

Poison still potent, persistent

August 22, 2021 at 6:43 a.m.

When a small Canadian environmental firm started collecting soil samples on a former U.S. air base in a remote Vietnam valley, Thomas Boivin and other scientists were skeptical they'd find...

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: At former U.S. bases in Vietnam, a potent poison is clear and present danger

May 13, 2019 at 3:55 p.m.

Part 4 of a Tribune investigation finds that a former U.S. air bases in Vietnam remain highly polluted by defoliants, but the U.S. has done little to clean up the...

Agent Orange: Birth defects plague Vietnam; U.S. slow to help

June 18, 2018 at 11:06 p.m.

Part 3 of a Tribune investigation finds that the role of defoliants in Vietnam's high rate of birth defects remains a contentious question decades after U.S. spraying missions ended. Complete...

Tran Huynh Thuong Sinh, who was born without eyes, is checked by a nurse in Peace Village, an international charity organization located at Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. The hospital is home to children born with deformities that Vietnam blames on exposure to toxic herbicides used during the Vietnam War.

Bickering blocks search for causes of congenital deformities

June 17, 2018 at 8:58 p.m.

Officials in the U.S. and Vietnamese governments agreed in 2002 to carry out joint research on the health and environmental impact of Agent Orange and other toxic defoliants, on the...

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