Trump Never Said Mexico Would, You Know, Pay For the Wall With Money or Something
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump wants to make something clear about his wall: Well…. But who cares, really? Maybe Mexico will pay for the wall, maybe Putin will pay for it. Or maybe Trump will crowdsource it. Maybe Warren Buffett will write a check. Or better yet,…
Scott Pruitt Is Facing Yet Another Scandal Thanks to His Legal Defense Fund
Chris Kleponis/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Pruitt left a long trail of investigations behind when he exited the Environmental Protection Agency last July to lead a private life as a coal consultant. On Thursday, four Democratic senators added yet another concern to the pile, requesting more information from…
Trump Once Told Students to Never Let a Wall Get in Their Way
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Long before President Donald Trump threatened to “maybe, definitely” declare a national emergency over his $5 billion demands for funds to build a border wall, the former real estate magnate once offered a very different—if not inspirational—message about concrete walls. “I’ll tell you, to me,…
This New App Turns Opioid Users’ Phones Into Overdose Detectors
MattGush/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. According to a November report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdoses killed more than 70,000 people in 2017—a 10 percent increase from 2016. Synthetic opioids, the most common drug involved in overdoses that year, took nine lives for every 100,000…
The Costly, Complicated Process of Cleaning Up a Toxic River
Tyler Tjomsland/Spokesman Review/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. East of Spokane, Washington, the ghost of decades-old industrial pollution still haunts the groundwater. Laden with chemicals that can cause cancer and developmental disabilities, the subsurface…
White House Hires 17 Lawyers to Help Hide Obstruction of Justice
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump sure must be worried about something he said to someone at some point: A beefed-up White House legal team is gearing up to prevent President Trump’s confidential discussions with top advisers from being disclosed to House Democratic investigators….The strategy to strongly assert the…