Enjoy Those Avocados, Pistachios and Oranges While You Can, Because They Are Going Away
Grist/Armin Staudt/EyeEm/Fridholm, Jakob/Douglas Sacha/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Chris Sayer pushed his way through avocado branches and grasped a denuded limb. It was stained black, as if someone had ladled tar over its bark. In…
You May Have Noticed That Gas Is More Expensive This Holiday Weekend
Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The nearly 40 million drivers who will hit the road this Memorial Day weekend will be paying the highest gas prices since 2014 according to the American Automobile Association. As of April 2018, drivers were paying an average of $2.72 per…
Scott Pruitt Tried to Give Men “Property Rights” Over Fetuses
This story was originally published by The HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1999, Scott Pruitt, then an Oklahoma state senator, introduced a bill to grant men “property rights” over unborn fetuses, requiring women to obtain the would-be father’s permission before aborting a pregnancy. Pruitt, now the embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection…
A Mormon Missionary Held in a Venezuelan Prison Is Coming Home
A screengrab from Josh Holt’s Facebook page.Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning on Twitter that Josh Holt, a Utah missionary who has been held in a Venezuelan prison since 2016, was headed back to the US. Good news about the release of the American…
Trump Slams the NYT for Reporting What a White House Official Told Them
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.Kcna/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The on-again, off-again summit between the US and North Korea has caused apparent confusion within the White House, as the president and his senior staff are now saying two different things—first, about whether a meeting between the…
Oh Please, It Won’t Take Decades for Electric Cars to Go Mass Market
Visionary or charlatan?Andrej Sokolow/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bret Stephens doesn’t think much of Elon Musk or Tesla. Fair enough. I’m on the fence about both myself. But in Friday’s column he suddenly decides that not only is Musk a charlatan, but so is the whole idea…