Was Trump Threatening Our UK Allies With This Tweet About His Scottish Golf Course?
Press Association/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday morning, as he lashed out at his political enemies on Twitter, President Donald Trump shared a post promoting one of his Scottish golf courses with his 58.8 million Twitter followers: “Very proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in…
Illegal Border Crossings Have Doubled Under Donald Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The number of migrants apprehended crossing the border is skyrocketing: The high number of families crossing the border suggest that President Trump’s policies aimed at deterring asylum seekers are not having their intended effect. Up to 2,000 migrants who traveled in a caravan from Central…
Three Things to Know About the Tornadoes That Devastated Rural Alabama
An aerial view of a cellphone tower that was knocked down by a tornado in Smiths Station, AlabamaAlex Wong/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A spate of tornadoes ravaged Alabama on Sunday and left at least 23 people dead, ranging in age from 6 to 89 years old. First…
Heatwaves Are Sweeping Across the Oceans “Like Wildfires That Take out Huge Areas of Forest”
John Keeble/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. The number of heatwaves affecting the planet’s oceans has increased sharply, scientists have revealed, killing swathes of sea-life like “wildfires that take out huge areas of forest.” …
Is the White House Communications Director a Fan of a Notorious Conspiracy Theorist?
Jacob Wohl waits to speak to the media about allegations against Robert Mueller in November.John Middlebrook/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl has spread rumors that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead. He’s been banned from Twitter for making fake 2020 presidential campaign accounts in…
Ben Carson Just Announced He Will Leave His Post at the End of Trump’s First Term
Shannon Finney/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson told conservative outlet Newsmax TV that he intends to leave the Trump administration at the end of the term, regardless of whether Trump is reelected in 2020. “I would be interested in returning to the private sector…