Trump’s Inauguration Photos Were Cropped to Make Crowds Look Bigger, Report Says
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement during his first press conference as Press Secretary where he spoke about the media’s reporting on the inauguration’s crowd size. Alex Wong/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump boasted about the size of the…
Haunting Poems and Photos From a State Torn by Fracking
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Julia Spicher Kasdorf pulled off Pennsylvania’s Route 15 on her way upstate in 2012, she noticed something she’d never seen before. Across the highway, by the restaurant where she and her husband stopped for lunch, helicopters dangling strange pendants were hovering over the mountainside.…
Shockingly Candid Photos Of Life on a 1970s Arkansas Prison Farm
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bruce Jackson got into photography as a means to an end. Working as an ethnographer studying African American work songs in Texas prisons, Jackson started taking photos for reference. While doing this work in the late ’60s, he met Terrell Don Hutto, a prison teacher…
The Seven Softest Softball Questions Republicans Asked Brett Kavanaugh
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By any standard, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s past few days with the Senate Judiciary Committee have been grueling. Democrats pressed hard on his views of abortion, presidential power, and the Russia investigation, and at times, tensions were high. But when Republicans had their chance…
Donald Trump Doesn’t Care About that Obama Speech He Can’t Stop Talking About
President Donald Trump speaks at a fundraiser in Fargo, North Dakota on Friday. Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It took just hours for Donald Trump to hit back at Barack Obama on Friday. In the afternoon, the 45th president took to a campaign stage in Fargo, North Dakota, to…
Trump Campaign Adviser George Papadopoulos Was Just Sentenced to 14 Days in Prison
George Papadopoulos, and his wife Simona Mangiante arrive at federal court for sentencing on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge sentenced George Papadopoulos, who served as a forign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, to 14 days in prison on Friday.…