Report: Betsy DeVos Considering Federal Funds to Arm Teachers
Oliver Contreras/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is considering a plan to use federal funds to help purchase firearms for educators or provide them with weapons training, the New York Times reported on Wednesday night. The funds would come from a pot of money intended…
Trump Lashes Out at Cohen, Sessions While Complaining That “Flipping” Should Be Illegal
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt, President Donald Trump said that “flipping”—in which defendants facing jail time cooperate with prosecutors by offering damaging testimony on others—should “almost” be considered illegal. The interview, which aired Thursday morning, is Trump’s first since his onetime campaign…
In the Rural West: More Oil, More Gas, More Ozone
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Grand Junction, Colorado seemed like the perfect spot for Jerry Nelson and his wife to retire from Champaign, Illinois, where he had been an economics professor at the University of Illinois. Ringed…
Jason Kander Says Only One Party “Wants to Let Black People Vote”
Ed Ritger/The Commonwealth Club Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jason Kander keeps busy. He’s a combat veteran, a former Missouri secretary of state, the founder of voting rights advocacy group Let America Vote, a podcast host, and a candidate for Kansas City mayor. Now he’s written a memoir, Outside the Wire, which…
We Have Extremely Sad News About Sweden’s Reindeer
Tessa Bunney/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sweden’s indigenous Sami reindeer herders are demanding state aid to help them cope with the impact of this summer’s unprecedented drought and wildfires, saying their future is at risk as…
Democrats Are Using Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination as an Election Season Rallying Cry for Reproductive Rights
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., joins protesters objecting to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, at a rally in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats are throwing their support and their advertising dollars into a vocal defense of abortion rights,…