Kansas Farmers Are Finally Seeing Climate Change With Their Own Eyes
Curt Dennison/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Guardian talks to Richard Oswald, a farmer in Kansas: “When I was a kid, my dad would say an inch of rain was a good rain. That’s just what we needed. Now we get four inches, five inches, six…
Disgraced Trump Fundraiser Tried to Use GOP Contacts to Score “Billions” in Africa
Mother Jones illustration; Billy Bennight/UPPA/ZUMA, Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In late 2016, as Donald Trump was readying to move into the White House, Elliott Broidy, then one of the Republican Party’s top fundraisers, was working on a deal to gain control of what a business partner called “billions…
NRA Ties to Russian Operatives Draw Growing Scrutiny From Congress
Alexander Torshin in Houston in May 2013Unknown Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As questions mounted last spring about two Russian operatives with ties to the National Rifle Association who tried to cultivate the Trump presidential campaign, the NRA made a rare public disclosure: The gun group said it had received about $2,500…
Congress Had a Chance to Press Google on Hoaxes and Hate Speech. They Blew It.
Douglas Christian/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. House lawmakers spent three and a half hours on Tuesday going after Google CEO Sundar Pichai on a range of issues, but barely addressed one of the tech giant’s biggest problems: its role in spreading misinformation and radicalizing users. Instead, the Republicans…
Chaos Erupts as Trump and Democratic Leaders Clash in Front of Cameras
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a stunning exchange that played out in front of TV cameras inside the Oval Office, President Donald Trump on Tuesday openly clashed with Democratic leaders over the looming government shutdown and funding for a border wall, declaring at one point that he would be “proud…
Donald Trump Tried His Best to Ruin Obamacare, But He Failed Utterly
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a chart showing estimates of the uninsured from two reliable sources: the CDC and the Kaiser Family Foundation. As you can see, both ticked up slightly in 2017 by about three-tenths of a percentage point. Is this Donald Trump’s fault? It could be. He…