Pence Still Won’t Say What He Knew About Trump’s Ukraine Deal
Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a news conference in Ankara, Turkey, on October 17, 2019.Burhan Ozbilici/AP This morning, Vice President Mike Pence refused to answer whether he knew about President Donald Trump’s efforts to withhold military aid to Ukraine unless President Volodymyr Zelensky authorized an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his…
Trump’s Obsession With Diminishing Obama’s Role in Killing Bin Laden Isn’t New
President Barack Obama reads his statement on the death of Osama bin Laden from the East Room of the White House on May 1, 2011.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP As President Donald Trump announced the death of ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi this morning, it was impossible to avoid comparisons to President Barack Obama’s May 2011 announcement…
Trump Announces ISIS Founder’s Death in a Boastful, Rambling Press Conference
President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on October 27, 2019.Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP This morning, President Donald Trump announced that US special forces killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the global terrorism group ISIS, in a raid in in northwestern Syria late Saturday. “Last night, the United…
Amazon Watch: What Happens When the Forest Disappears?
A car drives along a section under construction of the Trans-Amazonian highway (BR230) near Ruropolis, Para state, Brazil.Nelson Almeida/Getty This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The contrast is staggering. On one side of a narrow track is cool, moist rainforest, stretching northwest for hundreds of…
The Answer to Climate-Killing Cow Farts May Come From the Sea
Cristina Byvik One day in January 2014, police rushed to a farm in Rasdorf, Germany, after flames burst from a barn. They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. Headline writers had a field day. But the incident pointed to a serious…
Group Withdraws from Criminal Justice Forum After Giving Award to Trump
Scott Olson/Getty Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) was one of ten Democratic presidential candidates slated to attend a bipartisan forum on criminal justice reform in South Carolina when she unexpectedly backed out after the event sponsor gave a “bipartisan justice” award to President Donald Trump. In a Twitter post Friday, the former California prosecutor said she…