🧵To harvest more than half of America’s cane sugar, multibillion-dollar companies set fire to fields in Florida. For years, residents have wondered: Is the air safe to breathe? We spent a year investigating that question.

This is the real cost of sugar… black-snow.palmbeachpost.com First, meet Donovan (left) and Jayceon (right). In mid-February, the boys stepped outside their apartment for the third time that month. They never leave home without their inhalers or nebulizer.

In the 2,000 pages of Epstein-related documents unsealed in New York today, several powerful politicians and famous people are named as Epstein associates. Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre says she was directed to have sex with some of them.

Here's a running list: Guiffre said she was told to have sex with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former Senator George Mitchell.

She says that back in the early 2000s she met Al Gore and his then-wife Tipper on Epstein's private island in the Caribbean.