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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: ID Faith-Healing Family Lost Four Kids and Authorities Could Do Nothing

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The Best of the Week’s News

  • An Idaho family that believes in faith-healing over medical care lost four children to untreated diabetes, and authorities were powerless to intervene. (ProPublica)
     

  • Prosecutors say Andrea Shaw smothered her twin babies, she blames vaccines. (NYT)
     

  • Heat stroke killed one man and left another paralyzed, but their employer is still sending workers on H-2A visas into the fields. (Prism)
     

  • Rideshare drivers want a fair hearing before being kicked off the apps. (Capital & Main)
     

  • Tennessee authorities claim they followed their protocol for the botched execution of Christa Pike, but that may not be true. (NewsChannel 5)