House Democrats Want Answers on Admin’s Decision to Lift Sanctions on Deripaska Companies
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testifying before the Senate Finance Committee on February 14Ting Shen/Xinhua/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. House Democrats are demanding answers from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on why his agency removed companies owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska from its list of sanctioned companies last month.…
Schumer: President Stormed Out of Shutdown Talks in a “Temper Tantrum”
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump walked out of the latest round of negotiations to end the partial government shutdown after Democratic leaders continued to refuse his demands for funds to build a border wall, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday. Schumer, who along with…
Teachers in Los Angeles Are About to Go on Strike. It Could Get Messy.
United Teachers Los Angeles president Alex Caputo-Pearl (left) joins teachers at a downtown rally in December. Damian Dovarganes/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, 30,000 teachers across 900 public schools are planning to go on strike in Los Angeles following a monthslong standoff over large class sizes and inadequate support and pay…
So How Good Was My Crystal Ball?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday I suggested that Donald Trump wouldn’t lie “very much” in his immigration speech, and millions of you scoffed at me: Looking forward to tomorrow’s ‘welp, I was wrong’ tweet. — happy Gritty-nineteen! (@PMMDJ) January 8, 2019 I’ll take the over. — Ulysses Castillo (@Uman2631)…
Earlonne Woods Made an Amazing Podcast—and It Won Him His Freedom
Earlonne WoodsMark Murrmann/Mother Jones While he was an inmate at San Quentin State Prison, Earlonne Woods helped create a podcast that dealt with everyday life behind bars. Woods, 47, had spent 21 years in prison for attempted armed robbery. He saw how fellow inmates were kind to spiders, treating them as pets, and how the prison’s…
Brexit Has Gone From Insane to Insaner
Rob Pinney/London News Pictures via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While we engage in a ridiculous government shutdown that serves no purpose beyond political dick measuring, our friends in Britain are desperately trying to show that they can run a country just as badly as we can. If I…