Trump Blames FBI for Not Warning Him About Paul Manafort
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has been known to boast about only hiring the best people, but in hindsight says he could’ve used some help. On Sunday, Trump complained that the FBI didn’t inform him that his own campaign chairman was…
The Messy Universe Inside Plants Looks a Lot Like the Messy Universe Inside People
Lynn Ketchum/Oregon State University Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Corvallis, Oregon, Posy Busby works in a garden planted with 3,000 black cottonwood trees that represent 1,000 unique genetic specimens, each originally found somewhere on the…
Growing Your Own Cocktails Makes Gardening a Lot More Fun
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amy Stewart is a journalist and author who likes to, as Bite podcast host Kiera Butler puts it, “nerd out on plants.” As someone who regularly interviews horticulturists, including for her bestseller The Drunken Botanist, Stewart has accrued a trove of knowledge about them—poisonous…
Why the Bombshell Trump Letter Could Be a Big Problem for Donald Trump Jr.
Oliver Contreras/Sipa via AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday afternoon, the New York Times revealed a 20-page private letter that President Donald Trump’s lawyers had sent special counsel Robert Mueller in January in which they contended that it was impossible for Trump to commit obstruction of justice because he,…
The New York Times Just Got Its Hands on Trump’s Secret Legal Arguments—and Trump Isn’t Happy
Oliver Contreras/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New York Times has obtained a 20-page letter from President Donald Trump’s lawyers that it says was hand-delivered to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office in January. Trump is not pleased. Just before the New York Times published the letter, Trump attacked the ongoing…
A Few Miscellaneous Charts About Development Aid
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a random selection of charts from a report on aid to developing countries that I ran across via Twitter yesterday. It comes from AidData, a research lab at William & Mary. This isn’t a broad summary, just a few interesting factlets I pulled out.…