To Fear or Not to Fear: A Conversation About Climate
Amelia Bates/Grist Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In just the past year, the public conversation on climate change has turned dire. Wildfires scorched parts of the American West, wiping an entire town off the map. Blazes also torched…
Democrats Are Turning Up the Heat on Lindsey Graham Over Gun Control
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in September 2017.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Senate Democrats are ramping up their push for gun control, calling on a key GOP lawmaker to hold hearings on legislation to expand background check requirements for firearms purchases.…
Trump Shifts the Conversation to Veterans After a Brutal Week
President Donald Trump signs an executive order establishing a national roadmap to prevent veteran suicides.Evan Vucci/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week was not filled with positive moments for President Donald Trump. After leaving a failed diplomatic summit with North Korea and weathering harsh congressional testimony from his…
California Won’t Charge Officers in the Stephon Clark Case—But the Feds Might
Selena Manni, fiancée of Stephon Clark, wipes tears as she reacts to the decision by District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert to not press charges on Saturday.Renee C. Byer/Sacramento Bee/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, March 5, 2019, 5:09 pm ET: Hours after Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced his office…
The Number of Families Crossing the Border Is Shattering Records
A Honduran mother walks with her children next to the US-Mexico border fence as they turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents in Texas last month.John Moore/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A record number of families fleeing poverty and violence are crossing the US-Mexico border, according to data released…
Corporate Taxes Are Down and the Deficit Is Up
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The federal deficit is going up, up, up: The federal budget deficit ballooned rapidly in the first four months of the fiscal year amid falling tax revenue and higher spending, the Treasury Department said Tuesday….The deficit grew 77 percent in the first four months of…