Fault Lines

Video Duration 24 minutes 53 seconds 24:53 Fault Lines Fitness influencers are marketing dangerous new classes of performance-enhancing drugs to their teenage followers. Performance-enhancing drugs were once a closely guarded secret in the bodybuilding world, but a new generation of fitness influencers is openly sharing their use on social media and marketing dangerous new substances known as research chemicals to their teenage followers.

As temperatures rise around the globe, working outdoors is becoming more dangerous. In the United States, the watchdog group Public Citizen says up to 2,000 workers are dying every year. In September 2023, Salvador Garcia Espitia travelled to Florida to harvest sugar cane. He wanted to support his family in Mexico, especially his young son who needed medical treatment. On his first day of work, Salvador collapsed due to heatstroke and died days later at the age of 26.

Ahmed Nasser is one of a handful of doctors in north Gaza treating scores of children for malnutrition. The odds of saving lives are against him as he does not have the resources he needs. Israel has cut off food, fuel and water, resulting in a man-made famine that is unprecedented in its scale and pace. Every Palestinian in Gaza is food insecure and dozens have died from dehydration and malnutrition.

In 1997, Brandon Jackson was convicted for a crime he said he did not commit. An Applebee’s restaurant outside of Shreveport, Louisiana was robbed for $6,500. Nobody was injured. There was no physical evidence connecting him to the crime. At trial, two jurors voted to acquit him. In 48 states, it would have been a mistrial, and he may have walked free, but Louisiana’s Jim Crow-era laws, designed to lock up Black defendants, allowed for nonunanimous jury convictions. Jackson was sentenced to life.