Is John Hickenlooper the Fracking Candidate?
Jerry Mennenga/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. John Hickenlooper is probably the only 2020 presidential candidate who knows what fracking fluid tastes like. In a meeting with an oil and gas representative once, the then-governor of Colorado politely took part in a “ritual-like” sampling of the fluid used to extract…
Climate Change Could Make Insurance Too Expensive for Most People
Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Insurers have warned that climate change could make cover for ordinary people unaffordable after the world’s largest reinsurance firm blamed global warming for $24…
Trump Aided and Abetted Russia’s Attack. That Was Treachery. Full Stop.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Sunday afternoon Attorney General William Barr sent a letter to Congress noting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” The message also noted that…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Pointed Out the “Real Conversation” the Country Needs to Have About Trump
Kevin Hagen/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Sunday afternoon, just a few hours before Attorney General William Barr delivered his summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weighed in on the flurry of attention being paid to Trump and several investigations surrounding him and the…
The Trump Administration Is Still Busily Spinning the Mueller Report
A cameraman stakes out the Senate Judiciary Committee office hoping that someone will pop out with a copy of the Mueller report. But it never happened.Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The spin machine is in full gear today. Instead of simply releasing Mueller’s summary of…
William Barr Just Delivered A Summary of the Mueller Report to Congress. Read It Here.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a long two days of anticipation from members of Congress and the public, Attorney General William Barr delivered his “principal conclusions” from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report to lawmakers on Sunday. Mueller submitted the confidential report of the findings of his 22-month investigation to Barr…