The Unprecedented Surge in Families Crossing the Border, in Charts
Central American migrants wait in El Paso on Wednesday in a pen built by US Customs and Border Protection.Cedar Attanasio/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan warned earlier this month that US border infrastructure was approaching a breaking point as record numbers of…
We Still Don’t Know Anything About Mueller’s Counterintelligence Findings
U.S. House Select Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calf.) speaks as ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) looks on. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The results of a key part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation were excluded from the four-page letter that Attorney General William Barr sent to…
Justice Department Finally Admits How Long the Mueller Report Is
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In case you’re interested, the Justice Department has finally told us something new about the Mueller report: it is “more than 300 pages long.” It’s not clear why they seemed to consider this a state secret to begin with, but it’s finally out in the…
Divorce Rates Are Down, But There’s a Catch
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In my Twitter feed, Brad Wilcox is pointing out that the divorce rate in the US is way down from its peak in the early 80s. And he’s right: the annual divorce rate is down by about a third since 1981. That sounds like great…
Europe Just Passed a Sweeping Ban on Everyday Plastic Pollution
KONTROLAB/Contributor/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. The European parliament has voted to ban single-use plastic cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers as part of a sweeping law against plastic waste that despoils beaches and pollutes…
Today’s Brexit Vote: Everybody Hates Everything, But Maybe There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. British members of parliament don’t care much for Theresa May’s Brexit deal, but they also don’t like the idea of crashing out of the EU with no deal. That’s led to a deadlock, so last week the rabble seized control of the whole process from…