Mueller Asks Judge to Throw the Book at Manafort
Paul Manafort at the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016.Patrick Fallon/Zuma Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a lengthy sentencing memo released Saturday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller recommended that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort face around 20 years in prison for committing “an array of felonies for over…
Violent Clashes Take Place Along Venezuela’s Borders as Humanitarian Workers Try to Deliver Aid
Demonstrators tend to a fellow protester who was overcome by teargas during clashes near the Venezuela-Colombia border on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. Rodrigo Abd/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tensions along Venezuela’s borders escalated on Saturday when Venezuelan military officials clashed with protestors and aid workers attempting to bring humanitarian relief…
Read Robert Mueller’s Brutal Sentencing Memo for Paul Manafort
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday afternoon, federal prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed a sentencing memo for Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager who faces up to 25 years in prison for tax and bank fraud, but could face up to life in prison for…
The Internet Can’t Stop Laughing About the Way This Senator Talked to Some Children
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) at the Capitol on Tuesday, February 12, 2019.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The internet lost its mind on Friday evening when the Sunrise Movement, a climate activism group composed of youthful volunteers working to gain support for the Green New…
For Pixar’s Domee Shi, “Write What You Know” Yielded a Strange, Magical Chinese Dumpling
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you haven’t seen Bao, one of this year’s Oscar contenders for best animated short film, you’re in for a treat. Or not. In the film, the bao—which is a Chinese word for bun or dumpling—comes to life and grows up right before its mother’s…
No Deal in Sight as Fuel Standard Talks Between EPA and California Stall Out
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images 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. The Golden State has long set the gold standards for fuel efficiency and automobile emissions. Thanks to the Clean Air Act, California is able to set stricter fuel…