Austin Fast🎙

My PSA: 1. Talk with your family & friends about HIV/AIDS; 2. Love them unconditionally; 3. Get tested often for HIV; 4. Get on #PrEP if you're at higher risk for HIV. 5. Listen to #ThreeLittleWords wherever you get your podcasts, or at TampaBay.com/threelittlewor… #WorldAIDSDay

Novo Nordisk's reports to the #FDA spiked shortly after an inspection found the #Ozempic producer was ignoring reports of deaths and potential #GLP1 side effects. usatoday.com/story/news/inv…

GLP-1 drugs like #Ozempic, #Wegovy and #Mounjaro are booming — and so are lawsuits. I breakdown what over 4,400 patients allege happened to them, how drugmakers are responding and what doctors are saying on @USATODAY's The Excerpt. 🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=78uyP9…

New data show over 37 million Americans drink water that exceeds #EPA limits, with more expected as testing continues. Altogether, about 131 million Americans rely on drinking water systems that found some level of #PFAS, which the EPA says is toxic at extremely low levels.

EPA limits on #ForeverChemicals in #DrinkingWater remain intact through major changes at the agency, although #CleanWater advocates worry these standards are next on the chopping block. Check your local #PFAS test results in my interactive map below! usatoday.com/story/news/inv…

In 2022, only a third of the #SafeStreetsForAll program's rural money went to disadvantaged communities. This year, that leapt to 70%. On the other hand, most urban funding has consistently landed in disadvantaged communities. #SS4A

Federal grants to fix deadly roads in #rural towns nearly doubled this year, after my @USATODAY investigation found they'd been left out. Resource-strapped "disadvantaged" places won most of this money to keep #pedestrians and #drivers safe. usatoday.com/story/news/inv…

@emily_lecoz Check the story link for this interactive timeline showing all the incidents we could locate for these 10 large ship management companies.

On today's front page, @emily_lecoz & I investigate the safety record of the #ship operator behind the #Baltimore bridge collapse in March. We also looked at other similar companies & found dozens of incidents causing death and injury aboard their ships in just the past 5 years.

Does your #DrinkingWater have #PFAS? We've got recently updated @EPA data from over 6,500 public systems on our searchable map at: usatoday.com/story/news/inv… @ceciliagarzella @2400c #WaterPollution

Who's to blame for #PFAS in our #DrinkingWater? On today's episode of The Excerpt from @usatoday, I talk about what cities are saying. art19.com/shows/5-things… #ForeverChemicals #WaterPollution #CleanWater

“The lesson from these low success rates is not that we should give up on the (#Section8) voucher program, it’s that we really need to scrutinize it and find ways to make it easier to use – for tenants and landlords.” #HousingVouchers @lucytompkins2

I’ve known I wanted to do this story since last Aug when I met 2 men in Georgia facing eviction from homes they once owned (yes. eviction. not foreclosure. That’s important). I pitched it on my first day at @NPR Today it hit the airwaves on Morning Edition npr.org/2024/06/13/nx-…

My hottest take is that Columbus, Dayton, Louisville and Lexington are all suburbs of Cincinnati.

Test results show hundreds of drinking water systems have exceeded new #PFAS standards. Is your area affected? I explain on today's episode of The Excerpt. #ForeverChemicals @ceciliagarzella @2400c @USATODAY art19.com/shows/5-things…

New @EPA data show about 300 public #DrinkingWater systems have recently exceeded annual limits for #PFAS, and thousands more will likely join them. Check your area's test results on our map in the link. @ceciliagarzella @2400c #ForeverChemicals usatoday.com/story/news/inv…

Great address search tool! Hundreds of drinking water systems exceed new PFAS standards. The @EPA says almost 300 of America’s public drinking water systems exceeded newly established annual limits for "forever chemicals". tinyurl.com/5ymfkfvn by @a_fast @ceciliagarzella

As I was saying the other day. This PR nonsense is pervasive and needs to be extracted like a rotten tooth.

@smussenden Digital documents all available at: cgmix.uscg.mil/IIR/Default.as…

While reviewing the past two decades of @USCG incident investigation reports, we found at least 6,000 cases where massive cargo ships, oil tankers, container barges and even cruise vessels have reported what befell the #Dali: a loss of power, propulsion, or steering. @emily_lecoz

See where more serious bridge strikes have occurred on our map at data.usatoday.com/bridge-inciden…

Our analysis also revealed at least 2,600 bridge strikes in U.S. waters since 2002. Three of these incidents were fatal, claiming 16 lives in all. The majority, however, were minor – a ship’s antenna or mast hitting a bridge, or a barge clipping a bridge’s protective fender.