Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina May Be Ready to Cooperate
AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Accused Russian spy and gun rights activist Maria Butina wants to plead guilty in the case against her involving a Kremlin influence effort aimed at the 2016 election, according to a Monday morning court filing from her lawyers and the US government. The…
Trump’s Latest Meltdown Shows Even He Knows This Could Be the Beginning of the End
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump lashed out at the renewed focus that he may have committed campaign finance violations by personally directing hush-money payments prosecutors have identified as criminal to influence the 2016 election, claiming in a pair of typo-ridden tweets Monday morning that the money was…
California’s Battle Against Climate Change Is Going Up in Smoke
Smoke rises from a burned out grove of trees at the Blue Cut wildfire in Wrightwood, California on August 17, 2016.Jonathan Alcorn/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just a few months ago, climate activists in California were celebrating an impressive victory: New data showed that the state had brought…
This Year’s UN Climate Talks—Brought to You by Coal?
Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. KATOWICE, POLAND—There’s a specter hanging over the COP24 climate talks, that happened last week in the small city of Katowice, Poland. It’s not the goalpost-moving report that the…
A Rhode Island School District Is Sending Debt Collectors After Families Over Unpaid Lunches
Jupiterimages/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A school district in Rhode Island wants its lunch money back—and has hired a private debt collection agency to go after parents to get it. The chief operating officer of schools in Cranston, Rhode Island, recently sent a letter to parents warning them…
President Trump Goes On Twitter Rampage Against James Comey: “All Lies!”
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a short Twitter tantrum on Sunday morning, President Donald Trump accused former FBI director James Comey of lying to House Judiciary and Oversight committees during a hearing on Friday. Comey’s closed-door testimony—a transcript of which was released Saturday night—revealed that the FBI had…