Barr Says He’ll Release Redacted Mueller Report by Mid-April
U.S. Attorney General William Barr departs his home March 26, 2019.Win McNamee/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General William Barr said in a letter Friday that he expects to release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report “by mid-April, if not sooner.” Last Sunday, after Mueller…
The Supreme Court Just Halted This Texas Death Row Inmate’s Execution
Pat Sullivan/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Patrick Murphy was granted a rare stay of execution by the US Supreme Court in a 7-2 vote that took place two hours after he was scheduled to be executed. Murphy’s religious discrimination claim argued that because he was a converted Buddhist, he…
The Fungi Decimating Amphibians Is Worse Than We Thought
This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For nearly 400 million years, amphibians have led a highly successful double life on Earth, foraging on terra and reproducing in water. They survived the extinction of the dinosaurs and any number of other worldwide catastrophes, but they’ve never seen a…
Emily Post’s Great-Great-Granddaughter Explains the Proper Way to Get High
MmeEmil/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s something fundamentally social about consuming cannabis, whether that’s smoking a bowl with a circle of friends, passing a joint around at a concert, or attending an exclusive, West Coast cannabis-infused dinner party. But all that social interaction begs the question of etiquette, and…
Chart of the Day: Q1 Growth Is Looking Pretty Anemic
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Capital Spectator has rounded up the latest batch of forecasts for Q1 economic growth: We’re still a month away from the official BEA estimate, but there’s a lot of agreement in these forecasts. If growth really has fallen to 1.4 percent, that will make…
Trump Threatens to Close the Border. Again.
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is, once again, threatening to shut down the southern border. It is at least the seventh time he has done so on Twitter since October. But for the first time, Trump is getting specific. He tweeted on Friday morning…