Thousands of pregnant people in Gaza are being forced to forgo necessary medical care, and some are miscarrying as a result of living in a war zone, according to recent reports. There are about 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza (its total population is 2.3 million), and 5,500 are expected to give birth within the next […]
Bruce Parker remembers a time when he used to talk to the new Republican Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, several times a week. It was the spring of 2015, just weeks before the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, and Johnson—then a freshman representative in the Louisiana state legislature—had proposed a bill forbidding state […]
Bruce Parker remembers a time when he used to talk to the new Republican speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, several times a week. It was the spring of 2015, just weeks before the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, and Johnson—then a freshman representative in the Louisiana state legislature—had proposed a bill forbidding state […]
Mike Johnson, the new Republican speaker of the House, has a very dark view of America. He believes that the United States is “a completely amoral society” and that global “sinister” forces have a hold on some of its governmental policies. Immediately after Johnson—a little known congressman from Louisiana whose most notable act to date […]
After three weeks of disarray and bitter infighting, House Republicans on Wednesday finally got their act together to perform what historically has been one of the easiest tasks for a majority party: electing a new speaker. The man who secured one of the most powerful perches in US politics is Mike Johnson, a fourth-term Louisiana […]
On November 8, 2020, the day after the major news networks called the election for Joe Biden, 350 supporters of Donald Trump gathered in Purcellville, Virginia, a town of 9,000 people one hour northwest of Washington, D.C., to protest the results. “The national news media, they can make projections about the election, but they don’t […]
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Oil and gas producers in Pennsylvania used some 160 million pounds of chemicals that they are not required by law to publicly identify in more than 5,000 gas wells between 2012 and 2022, according to research published on Tuesday. The […]
Former president Donald Trump abruptly left a New York City courtroom on Wednesday afternoon after Judge Arthur Engoron refused to toss out the $250 million civil fraud case concerning the valuation of his properties. His departure occurred during the cross-examination by Trump’s attorneys of his former fixer Michael Cohen. Cohen was on the witness stand […]
The Republican frontrunner in North Carolina’s 2024 gubernatorial race made a slew of anti-Semitic comments over the past decade including sharing a quote that has been attributed to Adolf Hitler. The newly unearthed social media posts, first reported by Jewish Insider, also show Mark Richardson, the state’s Letuinent Governor, comparing the tearing down of a Confederate monument to both the Nazis’ first […]
Donald Trump was forced to take the stand in a New York City courtroom on Wednesday to explain why he once again violated a gag order prohibiting him from disparaging courtroom staff. Two weeks ago, Trump posted a message on TruthSocial accusing New York Superior Court Judge Arthur Engoron’s court clerk of being Chuck Schumer’s […]
“Boo!” “Shut up! Shut up!” That’s what a gaggle of House Republicans yelled at a reporter who dared to ask Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) about the 2020 election, just one day before Johnson was officially elected to the speakership, ending weeks of tumult within the fractured party. But Johnson’s elevation on Wednesday has many, including […]
This story is published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a newsroom that investigates inequality. FLINT, Mich – Civil rights law offers a tool for communities of color trying to stop unequal exposure to pollution. Over and over, people here have tried to make it work. From 1992 to 2015, residents and community […]
Abortion-rights opponents have long said their goal is to end abortion nationwide. So when they succeeded in overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022, it seemed to be the closest they’d ever come. Yet new data is making it increasingly clear that in the 12 months after the court ended the national right to abortion, […]
Mike Johnson is the new speaker of the House. The conservative Louisiana lawmaker—a man described by the New York Times as the “most important architect” of congressional Republicans’ attempt to throw out Joe Biden’s 2020 victory—is now second-in-line to the presidency. It’s a win for MAGA extremists. A win for Donald Trump. A win for […]
This story is published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a newsroom that investigates inequality. Is your neighborhood choked with pollution or facing other environmental woes that you think are discriminatory? You can write to the US Environmental Protection Agency to request an intervention. But it’s easy to get tripped up. That’s what […]
Much of the MAGA right seems determined to exploit the Israel-Hamas war to drum up anti-Muslim sentiment and xenophobia. In a newsletter last week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed she was “swarmed by Hamas protesters” during a rally for Palestinian rights at the Capitol. She then referred to Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) as a […]
On a contentious, crowded day in court, Michael Cohen—Donald Trump’s disgraced former attorney and fixer—took aim at his old boss. It was Trump, and only Trump, who was ultimately responsible for directing his underlings to fraudulently inflate his net worth, Cohen testified Tuesday. As Cohen answered questions from the witness stand, Trump sat just 10 yards away, […]
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s former right-hand woman, Melissa DeRosa, is out with a new memoir today in which DeRosa, who served as secretary to the governor, doubles down on her former boss’s claims that he never sexually harassed women. That theme comes despite a months-long investigation by the office of the state’s attorney […]
“Politics and hard news are important, I don’t want to imply otherwise.” Hmm—when you hear words like that from a tech executive, you know the next thing is a big, fat “but.” And sure enough: “…But my take is, from a platform’s perspective, any incremental engagement or revenue [these topics] might drive is not at […]
On Tuesday, 33 states filed a 233-page complaint against Meta and Instagram. The bipartisan lawsuit, in federal district court in California, alleges that Meta knew more about the mental health impacts of Instagram on teenagers—including addiction—than it had publicly acknowledged. According to the complaint, Meta—which owns Instagram, Facebook, and now Threads—”created a business model focused […]
Jenna Ellis, a former lawyer for Donald Trump’s campaign, pleaded guilty Tuesday in the sprawling Georgia criminal prosecution surrounding Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Ellis is now the fourth defendant—and third attorney—to plead guilty in the case and agree to testify. Ellis appeared in court in Fulton County, Georgia, on Tuesday and accepted responsibility for […]
Since 2020, firearms have been the leading cause of death for children and teens in America, killing thousands each year. Shootings and threats of gun violence in the nation’s schools have also escalated sharply. These trends are accompanied by another stark and evolving phenomenon: insidious marketing to kids by the gun industry. The promotional tactics […]
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Former officials in the UN’s farming wing have said they were censored, sabotaged, undermined and victimized for more than a decade after they wrote about the hugely damaging contribution of methane emissions from livestock to global heating. Team members at the […]
During the 2012 presidential campaign, when I obtained and posted a secretly recorded video of GOP nominee Mitt Romney deriding 47 percent of Americans as shiftless freeloaders who don’t “take personal responsibility and care for their lives,” I assumed this scoop would have an impact on the election. With President Barack Obama and the Democrats […]
The United Auto Workers Union is ramping up its unprecedented strike against the nation’s three major automakers and hitting one company where it hurts: pickup trucks. On Monday, in a surprise move from the union, UAW president Shawn Fain announced that more than 6,800 employees are walking off work at a pickup truck production plant […]
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Christine Louis-Jeune knew she was home when she saw ash falling from the sky and onto her windshield. She hadn’t been back to her central Florida hometown of Belle Glade in six months. She was both exhausted after a six-plus […]
Roshdi Sarraj, a reporter who co-founded a Palestinian media company, was killed Sunday in the Gaza Strip. He was at least the 23rd journalist to die since October 7, among more than 4,000 people killed in the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Sarraj was killed by an Israeli strike that hit […]
Earlier this year George Santos, the fabulist congressman facing federal fraud charges, took up the cause of exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui, a fellow fabulist who is also facing federal fraud charges. Guo, along with Steve Bannon, leads a group called the New Federal State of China, which claims to be dedicated to overthrowing the […]
Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, we learned Thursday, agreed to write a letter of apology to citizens of the state of Georgia for her role in a scheme to illegally access voting records there. The letter, which the Washington Post described as “a terse handwritten note on a legal pad” is part of a plea […]
I create videos about race and history for a living, which results in being inundated with racist comments, dog-whistles, instances of historical revisionism or apologia, and other stupid stuff. Every time I broach the subject of slavery, for example, there it is, the inevitable comment: “What about the Irish slaves in America?” Often, it feels […]
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Roman Empire fell more than 1,500 years ago, but its grip on the popular imagination is still strong, as evidenced by a recent trend on TikTok. Women started filming the men in their lives to document their answers to a […]
Things are getting wild on Nancy Mace’s Twitter account. The South Carolina congresswoman—an on-again-off-again Trump ally who once told the only funny joke about January 6—was one of the eight Republicans who voted with Democrats a few weeks back to remove Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. She then helped kill House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) […]
After a screening of Martin Scorsese’s slow-drip drama Killers of the Flower Moon in New York earlier this month, an agent with the film’s promotion team asked what I thought. At the time, all I could say was, “Brutal.” The movie, which is based on a book of the same name, stars Lily Gladstone, Leonardo […]
After Republicans finally dethroned Jim Jordan as their speaker of the House nominee Friday, GOP eyes turned to Rep. Tom Emmer. The Minnesota congressman seemed like the natural choice: He engineered his party’s successful effort to retake the House in 2022, and he’s currently the third-ranking Republican in that chamber. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy quickly […]
On Friday, Mother Jones published a yearlong investigation into the warehousing of foster children at facilities owned by the nation’s largest psychiatric hospital chain, Universal Health Services. Today, we’re pleased to share a new podcast version of the investigation as part of a special collaboration with Reveal: The investigation follows the story of Katrina […]
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A withering drought has turned the Amazonian capital of Manaus into a climate dystopia with the second worst air quality in the world and rivers at the lowest levels in 121 years. The city of 1 million people, which […]
The Biden administration is asking Congress to approve a $106 billion proposal that would mostly benefit Ukrainian and Israeli war and defense efforts. The administration wants roughly $61 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel with the large majority of that money going to military supplies. These are massive numbers: In the 2019 fiscal […]
On September 15, 2020, President Donald Trump, sitting next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on a White House balcony, delivered a speech in which he declared they were changing the course of history. Celebrating the signing of normalization agreements between Israel and these […]
Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of the fake electors plot Donald Trump used to try to steal the 2020 election, pleaded guilty in Fulton Country, Georgia, Friday to a felony count of conspiracy to file false documents. He has agreed to testify in the upcoming trials of other defendants, including Trump. The plea follows a the deal […]
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One-third of American kitchens have gas stoves—and evidence is piling up that they’re polluting homes with toxic chemicals. A study this summer found that using a single gas stove burner on high can raise levels of cancer-causing benzene above what’s been […]
After Hurricane Ida hit Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in September 2021, pharmacy lines and wait times started to grow. At the height of the storm, many pharmacies closed; in the aftermath, some had limited hours, in part due to understaffing. Pharmacies, both large chains and independents, had been struck by the climate crisis. “We’re getting a […]
The Americans pulling into the luxury Caribbean resort town of Juan Dolio could have easily passed as tourists. Dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, they set up at a hotel overlooking the Dominican Republic’s southern coast. But the group, which included law enforcement officers from the US Department of Homeland Security, wasn’t traveling to enjoy […]
Last week, a leaked staff memo from the director of journalistic standards and public trust at Canada’s largest broadcaster drew wide attention for instructing reporters, “Do not refer to militants, soldiers, or anyone else as ‘terrorists.’” “Terrorism remains heavily politicized” and is too subjective and slanted a word for reporters to use outside of attributed […]
The Bush boys are back to argue, once more, for war. President Biden visited Israel this week to reaffirm his unwavering support while cautioning against a military response “consumed by rage.” Though far from the ceasefire many progressives had hoped Biden would publicly urge for during the visit, the warning was a tacit acknowledgment of the […]
Update, October 19, 2:47 pm ET: Never mind, apparently he’s going to try again! BREAKING — JORDAN says he expects another speaker vote. Says he wants to meet w the 20 nos. — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 19, 2023 Unless Jim Jordan dresses up as the top House Republican for Halloween, it looks like he […]
Sidney Powell, the former Donald Trump attorney who is charged along with the former president and 17 others in an election subversion case in Georgia, pleaded guilty Thursday to six misdemeanor charges and agreed to testify about the alleged scheme in upcoming proceedings. Powell and attorney Kenneth Chesebro were set to go on trial in the case tomorrow. […]
In recent years, thousands of foster kids have been admitted to psychiatric facilities owned by health care giant Universal Health Services, according to a yearlong Mother Jones investigation. Sometimes, they leave far worse off than when they arrived. While the investigation focuses on the story of Katrina Edwards, who spent years in UHS’s North Star […]
The first time Katrina Edwards was locked in a psychiatric hospital for children, she was sure a foster parent would pick her up the next day. It was a spring night in 2012 when Edwards, then 12 years old, was admitted to North Star Behavioral Health in Anchorage. In a photo taken upon her arrival, […]
Universal Health Services, the country’s largest psychiatric hospital chain, claims on its website to provide compassionate care with a “relentless focus on quality” to thousands of patients each year. And it does well by investors, too: The publicly traded, Fortune 500 company brought in $13.4 billion last year. But a yearlong Mother Jones investigation tells […]
In 1996, when Leonard Rubenstein became the executive director of Physicians for Human Rights, the war in the former Yugoslavia had just ended. PHR, a US-based advocacy group, prepared a report on the brutal attacks on Kosovo Hospital in Sarajevo and against health workers in Bosnia and Croatia, and Rubenstein was shocked by what it […]
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Officials from declining coal communities in Wyoming worry that the Biden administration’s environmental justice agenda is hurting their ability to compete for billions of dollars in federal clean energy and infrastructure grants, including funding that’s intended to help communities that […]
There’s nothing like war to bring out the crazy in the crazy far-right. As the Israeli military pummeled Gaza and created a humanitarian crisis in response to Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians, Steve Bannon and Alex Jones found common cause in a conspiracy theory explaining what’s really going on with this war. The coming together […]
Last week, a BBC anchor asked former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy about Israel’s rationale for its devastating siege on Gaza, saying that the “Israelis would say, well look, we are defending ourselves.” Levy’s response quickly went viral. “Do you really keep a straight face when you say that?” he asked. “Do you think terrorist organizations embedded […]
Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Our Land here. Plus, David Corn’s American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the […]
In 2003, Haggai Matar made headlines as a teenager for refusing to perform mandatory service in the Israeli military. “They do war crimes and they expect us to keep silent,” Matar said at the time. “But we will not be silent. We will speak out against the occupation, even when we pay a price.” He […]
Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid to become speaker hasn’t worked, at least not yet. But Jordan has already succeeded in revealing that House Republicans mostly don’t care about his leading role in Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election—or the prospect that Jordan, as speaker, might have more success stealing the next election. With the […]
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In September, Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled that marco temporal, a legal theory that would have limited Indigenous claims to land and opened those territories to extractive industries like mining and agriculture, was unconstitutional. The marco temporal case spent 16 years moving […]
Last week, Barbers High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, after administering more than 40 days of in-school suspension to 18-year-old Darryl George for the length of his dreadlocks, removed him from classes and enrolled him in a disciplinary program. Since October 12, George, who has filed a lawsuit against the district and state authorities, has been attending the […]
On Monday, the Biden administration reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought on behalf of families separated at the US-Mexico border due to Donald Trump’s so-called “zero-tolerance” policy, under which immigration agents removed thousands of migrant children from their parents. “The practice of separating families at the southwest border was shameful,” said Attorney General Merrick […]
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Workers at General Motors’ electric vehicle battery manufacturing facilities will be protected by the company’s national contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW), the union’s president, Shawn Fain, announced last week. It’s a landmark victory in the fight for a […]
It’s been a hell of a year for science scandals. In July, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a prominent neuroscientist, announced he would step down after an investigation, prompted by reporting by the Stanford Daily, found that members of his lab had manipulated data or engaged in “deficient scientific practices” in five academic papers on […]
The doctor wants a pair of boots. Not just any boots, either. A specific brand of cowboy boot, handcrafted in Texas. Boots that adorn the feet of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, for instance, and singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton. We’re at the airport in El Paso, after a seven-hour journey from a small regional airport in the […]
A federal judge in Washington, DC, slapped Donald Trump with a limited gag order Monday—Trump’s second in the last month. Judge Tanya S. Chutkan barred the former president from denigrating court employees, prosecutors, or witnesses in the criminal case stemming from Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The order came after a lengthy hearing […]
The family of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy who was fatally stabbed inside his home in Plainfield, Illinois, is preparing to bury him today. Police have accused the family’s landlord, 71-year-old Joseph Czuba, of stabbing the boy 26 times with a knife, a brutal murder the Justice Department is now investigating as a […]
This story is the first in a four-part Grist series examining how climate change is destabilizing the global insurance market. It is published in partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and appears here as part of the Climate Desk Partnership. “We’ve got ourselves a little monster out there,” anchorman Jim Cantore warned, facing the camera in the Weather Channel’s […]
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s wildlife are facing a barrage of threats caused by climate change, from the loss of suitable habitat to dwindling food supplies. As a result, endangered species across the US are edging closer to extinction at alarming rates—and if they disappear, critical […]
On Sunday, amid worsening conditions in Gaza, the US State Department named former Ambassador David Satterfield as a special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues. Satterfield, an Arabic-speaking veteran diplomat who previously served as ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey, will, the department said, “lead US diplomacy to urgently address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, including […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence is reportedly facing an “existential cash squeeze” that could bring an end to his 2024 run for the White House. Pence’s campaign told NBC News that filings due at the Federal Election Commission by the end of Sunday will reflect some $620,000 in debt, and that Pence himself has resorted […]
The Israel Defense Forces has renewed evacuation orders for portions of Gaza as it prepares its announced plans for “coordinated attacks from the air, sea and land” in retaliation for last week’s Hamas attacks. Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to deteriorate as desperate families flee northern sections of the territory by car, bus, and […]
This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Brenda Whitfield recalled the first major flood at her home in the Eastwick section of Southwest Philadelphia, when Hurricane Floyd filled her ground floor with five feet of water. “I was scared half to death,” she said of the […]
A solar eclipse formed a “ring of fire” on Saturday on a trail from Oregon to Texas before moving down to Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Brazil. Crowds gathered along a 125-mile wide path to watch the “moment of annularity,” when the moon was directly in front of the sun, leaving a halo of light. Annular […]
As hundreds of thousands of Gazans have fled their homes in response to Israel’s warnings of a massive ground invasion, the United Nations is warning of an escalating humanitarian crisis. Many are struggling to find shelter and food; Gaza has no electricity and is running out of clean drinking water. “It has become a matter of life and […]
On Friday, a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down an electoral map in Galveston, Texas, saying it violates the Voting Rights Act and amounts to “egregious” discrimination against Black and Latino voters. “This is not a typical redistricting case,” wrote Judge Jeffrey Brown in a 157-page ruling. “What happened here was stark and jarring…the enacted plan denies Black […]
This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A little over three years ago, a menacing fog crept into the valley surrounding the small village of Satartia, Missisippi, causing a mass poisoning. Within minutes of breathing the air, residents choked and dropped to the ground. Nearly […]
A Texas high school that suspended a Black student for more than a month over the length of his dreadlocks is removing the student and transferring him to an alternative disciplinary program. Starting yesterday, Darryl George, an 18-year-old junior at Barbers Hill High School, will report to EPIC until November 29. “Your child has engaged […]
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the “social cost of carbon,” one of the most important calculations in US climate policy, on Tuesday. The controversial metric attempts to quantify the hidden price of emitting carbon dioxide, from flood damage to […]
The Justice Department on Thursday issued a new indictment against Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez and his wife, this time accusing the couple of acting as foreign agents for Egypt. The court filing adds detail to the astonishing allegations already lodged against the senior New Jersey senator. Those include charges that he and his wife Nadine accepted […]
A former Deutsche Bank executive testified this week that the German financial behemoth only agreed to make massive loans to Donald Trump because of Trump’s vast personal fortune. The problem? The bank apparently thought, based at least partly on financial statements provided by Trump, that he was far wealthier than he really was. The Deutsche […]
Virginia Democrats are calling on the Justice Department to investigate the state’s elections department after the administration announced last week that it had mistakenly removed eligible voters from voter rolls after incorrectly listing them as convicted felons. The announcement, which came with early voting already underway for a pivotal state election, said that it had […]
Virginia Democrats are calling on the Justice Department to investigate the state’s elections department after the administration announced last week that it had mistakenly removed eligible voters from voter rolls after incorrectly listing them as convicted felons. The announcement, which came with early voting already underway for a pivotal state election, said that it had […]
This story is the result of a partnership between The Investigative Reporting Workshop and The Center for Public Integrity. Osama Mohamed let out a sigh of relief as he and his wife stood at the steps of the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the first day of September. Clutched tightly in his hands was […]
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sewage collecting in crudely dug trenches. Failing septic tanks that send waste bubbling into backyards. These are some of the common sights across Alabama’s Black Belt, a strip of 24 continuous counties blessed with deep fertile soil but long plagued […]
On Wednesday, a group of New York House Republicans announced that they will introduce a resolution to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who was indicted yesterday on new charges that included campaign violations for a fake-donor scheme first reported by Mother Jones earlier this year. The resolution, which will be introduced by Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.), […]
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, a case that could help decide which party controls the House of Representatives in 2024, along with the future of minority representation and voting rights litigation in the South. In 2018, Joe Cunningham became the first Democrat […]
Last year, Allen Weisselberg did everything he could to protect Donald Trump from New York prosectors. With the Trump Organization facing tax evasion charges in Manhattan, Weisselberg—the former president’s longtime CFO—tried to take the fall for his old boss. It didn’t work. On Tuesday, Weisselberg was back on the witness stand, this time as part […]
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate breakdown is already changing the taste and quality of beer, scientists have warned. The quantity and quality of hops, a key ingredient in most beers, is being affected by global heating, according to a study. As a result, beer […]
On Tuesday evening, federal prosecutors charged already-indicted and disgraced Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) with several new crimes, including campaign finance violations for a fake-donor scheme exposed by Mother Jones earlier this year. These new counts added to the pre-existing indictment also include wire fraud and identity theft. The feds claim that Santos used his donors’ credit […]
In a White House address on Tuesday, President Joe Biden made clear that Israel will have the unequivocal support of the United States as it responds to the terrorist attack launched by Hamas over the weekend, adding that Israel had a right and duty to respond to the attacks. “In this moment, we must be […]
A California bill requiring public high schools to provide condoms to their students didn’t make it past Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk this week. The bill, SB 541, would have required schools to place condoms in at least two easily accessible places on campus. Students would not have needed assistance or permission from staff to take […]
The selfless billionaire is a rare creature indeed. Chuck Feeney, who died on Monday at the age of 92, was one of them. He is “my hero and Bill Gates’ hero,” Warren Buffett once remarked. “He should be everybody’s hero.” Indeed, Feeney was an inspiration for the Giving Pledge that Buffett and the Gateses launched […]
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A groundbreaking California law will force large companies doing business in the state—including major global corporations—to disclose their planet-heating carbon emissions. The measure, signed into law by the governor, Gavin Newsom, on Saturday, will be the nation’s first of its kind, serving […]
When he was a teenager, Ben believed that he struggled with friendships and romantic relationships more than others his age. Discerning personal boundaries and finding ways to effectively communicate often bewildered him, and he wasn’t sure what certain signals meant or how many he may have missed. As someone with autism, cerebral palsy, and expressive […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the prominent conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer, is officially running as an independent. On Monday, the Kennedy scion, who has been politically disowned by much of his family, announced that he was ditching his longshot efforts to defeat Joe Biden in the Democratic primary. The announcement prompted more family disavowal. Kennedy’s sister, […]
In January 2020, Barbers Hill High School in Texas made national headlines after suspending a Black student over his dreadlocks, ordering DeAndre Arnold to cut them if he wanted to attend graduation. The incident partly inspired the CROWN Act, a state law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination in schools, housing, and workplaces. But on August […]
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), like Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the man he hopes to replace as House speaker, lies a lot. Jordan’s rapid-style monologues—on topics such as Russia’s attack on the 2016 election, Donald Trump’s 2019 effort to extort Ukraine, Hunter Biden, and internet censorship—are often loaded with allegations that are demonstrably false. He has […]
This year, California was poised to become the first state in the nation to ban discrimination based on caste, the hereditary social hierarchy that originated in South Asia but persists around the world. But on Saturday, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have added add caste to existing laws banning discrimination in public […]
A quarter-century ago, doctors at Duke University Medical Center and three other major research universities set out to test new brain wave monitoring device on patients under general anesthesia. Usually, physicians monitored blood pressure, heart rate, and pupil dilation to figure out if patients were regaining consciousness. But the new device aimed to streamline the […]
Hours after Palestinian militants launched a deadly multi-pronged assault on Israeli towns from the Gaza Strip yesterday, and Israel responded with a barrage of airstrikes, several Republican presidential candidates tried to lay blame for the escalation in the decades-long conflict at the feet of President Joe Biden. The Republican candidates claimed Saturday’s attacks—which have led to […]
This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Gabe Jules is pulling back on his deer hunts. He has witnessed a drop in both the numbers and health of the deer population in his territory, which has been ravaged by two devastating wildfire seasons in three […]
“Elections don’t work,” Greg Gutfeld explained, as the co-host of “The Five” and Fox News’ answer to Jimmy Kimmel descended into a dorm room caliber monologue that attempted to justify why a civil war in the United States may be necessary to reverse American “decline.” The good guys in this one will not be opponents of slavery, but […]