A Year After an Environmental Disaster in Texas, Chemical Company Faces a Reckoning
Godofredo A. Vasquez/Houston Chronicle via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hurricane Harvey struck southeast Texas last August with 130 mph winds and dumped more than 50 inches of rain across the region. In the aftermath of the second-costliest storm in recent American history, a Category 4 nightmare that left…
How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, left, attends the 37th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service.Kevin Dietsch/Pool via CNP/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article was originally published by ProPublica. On a chilly morning in December 2016, 12-year-old Bobby Lewis found himself sitting in a little room at the police station…
Got Student Loans? Find Out How Much You’ll Really Pay.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More and more Americans are drowning in debt. About 44.7 million Americans currently have student debt, and in 2017 they owed more than $1.3 trillion in student loans—more than two and a half times what they owed 10 years earlier. Meanwhile, it takes them an…
White Supremacist Under Scrutiny for Robocalls Using Mollie Tibbetts’ Death to Spread Hate
A poster for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business on August 21 in Brooklyn, Iowa. Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A neo-Nazi podcast host has come under scrutiny for a spate of racist robocalls in Iowa and Florida.…
Trump Associates Suspected of Misleading Congress Have a New Reason to Worry
W. Samuel Patten leaves the federal court in Washington, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018.AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republican political operative Samuel Patten’s agreement to plead guilty Friday to charges that he acted as an unregistered lobbyist for a Ukrainian political party included his admission that he…
Trump Announces Rally for Lyin’ Ted
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump confirmed what Texas Republicans had been hinting for weeks—he’d be coming to the Lone Star State this fall to campaign for Sen. Ted Cruz: I will be doing a major rally for Senator…