Trump Fumes Over Bolton Bombshell
Stefani Reynolds/ZUMA President Donald Trump lashed out at John Bolton in the wake of an explosive New York Times report late Sunday that his former national security adviser’s forthcoming book will accuse the president of telling Bolton that he wanted to continue withholding security assistance to Ukraine until the country moved forward with investigations into…
Who’s Afraid of the IRS? Not Facebook.
The Facebook pavilion at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.Pierre Teyssot/ZUMA Press This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. In March 2008, as Facebook was speeding…
Big Oil Wants to Dump More Wastewater Into Rivers. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
An oil refinery in Texas./Getty This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. For more than six months, twin brothers Ronald and Donald Schweitzer have watched large amounts of salty wastewater bubble up from the ground in their wheat field. The “saltwater purge” has killed three…
Harvard Alumni Are Turning Up the Heat on Fossil Fuel Divestment
The Boston Globe/Getty In late November, hundreds of protesters stormed the field of the Yale Bowl during the annual Harvard-Yale football game, sprinting from both sidelines in the final minutes of halftime. Chanting “fossil fuels have got to go” as well as “OK boomer,” the rowdy crowd, bearing beer cans and vape pens, delayed the game for an hour…
Kobe Bryant Killed in Helicopter Crash
Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant was one of five people killed in a helicopter crash Sunday, according to multiple news outlets. The LA County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that all of the aircraft’s passengers died when it went down near Calabasas, but the department has not released the names of the victims. Five…
Report: John Bolton’s Book Draft Says Trump Conditioned Ukraine Aid on Biden Investigations
John Bolton, then Trump’s national security advisor, speaks at an August press conference in Ukraine.Serg Glovny/ZUMA President Donald Trump told his former national security adviser John Bolton that he would maintain a freeze on military aid to Ukraine until the country took steps to open investigations into the Bidens, according to an unpublished manuscript by the…