Today’s Special: Grilled Salmon Laced With Plastic
Andrii Zastrozhnov/Getty Nearly 50 years ago, scientists studying the North Atlantic Ocean started noticing that tiny fragments of plastic were turning up in their plankton and seaweed samples. The microparticles, they found, absorbed toxic chemicals and were then eaten by flounder, perch, and other fish. Until recently, though, researchers thought these ingested plastics stayed in…
The Supreme Court Just Made It Virtually Impossible for Anyone to Seek Asylum at the Border
20th Century Fox The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration can begin denying asylum to the vast majority of migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border, overturning a lower court’s ruling that had stopped the White House from enforcing its controversial asylum ban. The ruling would apply to the tens of thousands of…
The Bolton Affair Exposes Trump’s Warring Instincts on War
If Donald Trump disagreed with John Bolton about everything, why did he hire him in the first place? The most common answer to this question revolves around Trump’s basic incompetence and foreign policy ignorance, and that’s fair enough. But there’s something more interesting also going on here. Trump has two warring traits when it comes…
Mar-a-Lago Intruder Convicted of Trespassing at Trump’s Private Club
Mar-a-Lago on April 3, 2019.Joe Raedle/Getty Images A jury in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. on Wednesday convicted a Chinese woman for trespassing and lying to a Secret Service agent at Mar-a-Lago on March 30. The verdict did not clarify whether the intruder, Yujing Zhang, a 33-year old financial consultant from Shanghai, was spying for the Chinese…
Mattis Aide’s Tell-All Book Cleared for Release After Months-Long Delay by the Pentagon
Zach Gibson/Getty A former aide to Defense Secretary James Mattis is moving forward with the release of a book his publisher has hyped as a “sometimes shocking account” of the Pentagon under President Donald Trump, less than two weeks after he sued the Pentagon over claims that officials delayed its release to help Mattis. Guy…
North Carolina Republicans Used an Insane Dirty Trick to Cut Corporate Taxes
North Carolina Republican House Speaker Tim Moore. Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP Just nine Democratic members of North Carolina’s House of Representatives were present early Wednesday morning when Republicans called a surprise vote to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) veto of the state budget. With a little more than half of the 120…