Report: Trump’s Shutdown Played Role in Delaying Crucial Boeing Fixes
Chris Kleponis/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, 2:45 pm EST: After days of resistance, President Trump announced Wednesday afternoon that the Boeing 737 Max planes would be “grounded immediately.” Previously: Despite mounting calls from lawmakers in both parties to temporarily ground Boeing 737 Max airplanes following two recent crashes,…
He Lost Almost Everything in Syria. In Canada, His New Neighbors Are Helping Him Start Over.
Isaam Hadhad with Frank Gallant in the chocolate factory. Jonathan Keijser/Courtesy of the Atlantic In Syria, Isaam Hadhad ran one of the largest chocolate factories in the Middle East. But after a bombing destroyed his factory, Hadhad and his family fled to a refugee camp in Lebanon, eventually gaining asylum in Nova Scotia, Canada, in…
Manafort Gets More Than 7 Years in Prison
Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at US District Court on June 15, 2018.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to more than six years in prison on conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges on…
California Governor Announces Reprieve for the State’s 737 Death Row Inmates
Rich Pedroncelli/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom will announce a moratorium Wednesday on the state’s death penalty, giving 737 death row inmates a reprieve from execution. The death sentences are still in place, but no inmates will be executed as long as the moratorium is…
We Have Been Invaded By Butterflies
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Our backyard was ground zero for a huge butterfly migration today. Here is stunning wide-screen, Dolby-enhanced, Technicolor proof: OK, fine, it doesn’t look all that impressive. But there were lots of them! And they were definitely on a mission, with no dilly-dallying. My back-of-the-envelope guess…
White House: Trump “Doesn’t Know” the Massage Parlor Owner Peddling Access to Him
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After four days of silence, the White House has finally addressed questions about Cindy Yang, the massage parlor owner who sold Chinese business executives access to President Donald Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago. “The President doesn’t know this woman,” Judd Deere, a White House…