Trump’s pardons are costing shooting survivors millions

Most of that figure is from a single case. Last year, Trump pardoned HDR Global Trading Limited, the owner and operator of the crypto exchange BitMEX, which had been ordered to pay $100m in fines for flouting anti-money laundering laws. Trump issued the pardon, the first for a corporation, just hours before the payment was due. Because the pardon calls for the “remission of any and all fines, penalties, forfeitures, and restitution ordered by the Court”, that $100m will never make it to the Crime Victims Fund...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/trump-pardons-cost-shooting-survivors-millions

 

GOP signals end to probes into military’s killing of boat strike survivors - The Washington Post

"Whether lawmakers or analysts call them a war crime or murder, the real problem is these uses of deadly force are not legally justified," said Geoffrey Corn, a professor of law at Texas Tech University and a former Army lawyer...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/18/boat-strike-survivors-congress-inquiries/

 

The people fleeing climate breakdown

Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind. Introduction by Dina Nayeri…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/people-fleeing-climate-breakdown-in-pictures

Epstein survivors say they're creating their own list to release

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNNn0U0vi9A

 

'We can stop the cycle': crime survivors work toward prevention, not policing

A network of victims has come together to lobby for services. ‘Young black men are the most harmed and least supported’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/23/defund-police-violence-survivors-us

A Republican-backed bill to protect “abortion survivors” won’t pass. It still matters - Vox

The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act may be part of a larger strategy for 2020. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/25/18239964/born-alive-abortion-survivors-protection-2019-sasse