Trump’s Self-Inflicted Shutdown Cost the US Economy at Least $6 Billion
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump may have capitulated to Democrats on his border wall demands—for now—but the devastating economic effects of the longest government shutdown in US history are just emerging. According to an estimate from S&P Global Ratings, the US economy lost at least…
Nancy Pelosi Leans Into Collusion After Roger Stone Indictment
Tom Williams/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fresh off her decisive victory over President Donald Trump in the fight to end the longest government shutdown in US history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a scathing statement on the other damning news of the day: the arrest of the president’s longtime…
Bees Are Facing Yet Another Existential Threat
Honeybees pollinate more than $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and vegetables a year, largely in California, according to the US Department of Agriculture.Frank May/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent nonprofit news…
Over the Past Five Weeks, Fair-Housing Advocacy Nearly Collapsed
Jitalia17/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During the government shutdown, in which 800,000 federal workers worked without pay or were furloughed for five weeks alongside 1.2 million federal contractors, the Department of Housing and Urban Development was shuttered, with 95 percent of its staff furloughed. The effects reverberated throughout the country. Programs like…
Trump Shut Down the Government to Protect National Security. He Hurt It Instead.
RomanBabakin/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days before President Donald Trump finally agreed to end the longest government shutdown in American history, federal employees were already sounding the alarm about the threat posed to national security. From airport employees to FBI agents, Trump’s insistence on security at the southern…
What the Roger Stone Indictment Left Out: How He Helped Russia Attack the 2016 Election
Lynne Sladky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Roger Stone, the conniving conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed dirty trickster whose motto is “admit nothing, deny everything,” was indicted Friday morning by special counsel Robert Mueller for allegedly lying to the House intelligence committee about his efforts to interact with WikiLeaks during the 2016…