How Much Environmental Damage Will Notre Dame’s Lead Roof Cause?
Nicolas Liponne/NurPhoto via ZUMA We get questions: @ClaraJeffery @marynmck Know any environmental journos who want to take this story? I’ve been slightly obsessing about if for days now. It was 210 TONS of lead. It went *somewhere* … https://t.co/EaY1ly2qUG — Charlotte M. Freeman (@charlottemf406) April 18, 2019 That’s a lot of lead. And I am…
Here’s a Closer Look at LeBron James’s New School in Akron
Joe Camporeale/CSM via ZUMA As a quick aside from Mueller-mania, Bob Somerby points out this remarkable sentence from a New York Times story about the great news coming out of a new school opened last year by LeBron James: Nataylia Henry, a fourth grader, missed more than 50 days of school last year because she…
New York City Just Passed Historic Climate Legislation—Its Own Green New Deal
This story was originally published by HuffPost and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The nation’s largest and most economically influential city passed a historic bill Thursday capping climate-changing pollution from big buildings and mandating unprecedented cuts to greenhouse gases. The City Council approved the legislation in a 45-to-2 vote Thursday afternoon, all but ensuring…
Mueller: Manafort Discussed Enlisting Trump to Aid Russia in Ukraine
Paul Manafort on June 15, 2018Brendan Smialowski /AFP via Getty Images Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort held secret meetings with a business associate suspected of having ties to Russian intelligence that involved discussing handing Russia effective control of eastern Ukraine, special counsel Robert Mueller reported on Thursday. Those talks included the possibility of Trump…
Pelosi and Schumer Urge Mueller to Testify Publicly
ZUMA In a joint statement Thursday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called on Robert Mueller to publicly testify before Congress, citing what they called Attorney General William Barr’s “regrettably partisan handling” of the special counsel’s report into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia. The statement came on the heels…
For Some Asylum Seekers, Trump’s “Messed Up” Policies Have Made Settling in Mexico Their Only Option
Gregory Bull/AP Two months ago, while reporting in Tijuana, I met a Salvadoran family hoping to apply for asylum in the United States. Juan Carlos Perla, his wife, and three young children had fled threats of violence in their hometown last fall, and like hundreds of thousands who have made the trek north in the…