19 of 20 World Leaders Just Pledged to Fight Climate Change. Trump Was the Lone Holdout.
G20 leaders at the meeting in Argentina.Ralf Hirschberger/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It is telling that on two of the most contentious topics at the Buenos Aires Group of 20 meeting, the United States eventually joined 19 other world leaders on trade, but when it comes to…
NFL Team Releases Star Player After Video of Domestic Violence Surfaces
Kareem Hunt during an October gameCharlie Riedel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The NFL has long had a problem with how to investigate and discipline its players accused of domestic violence, but the first signs that the league—just maybe—is beginning to take it more seriously came Friday night. The Kansas…
World Leaders Mourn George H.W. Bush—and His Republican Party
George H.W. Bush and Barbara BushEd Bailey via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The 41st president of the United States, George H.W. Bush, died Friday at age 94. World leaders have not directly mentioned President Donald Trump and the dangers of isolationist policies in their flood of statements, but it’s…
Foodborne Illnesses Were Up Last Year. They May Be Up Again in 2018.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There have been a bunch of food scares this year, culiminating in a warning of E. coli in romaine lettuce announced last week—the second one in 2018. So what’s going on? Is our food getting worse? Jack Denton of Pacific Standard says, not really: When…
The Smoke’s Gone, But Hearts and Lungs Still May Be in Danger Months After Wildfires
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Three days after the Camp Fire erupted, incinerating the Northern California town of Paradise and killing 85 people, Katrina Sawa found herself struggling to breathe. But Sawa wasn’t…
Rep. Raúl Grijalva Is Going to Make Ryan Zinke’s Life Hell in the Next Congress
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Less than a week before the midterm elections, US House Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), released a report detailing how the US House Committee on Natural Resources, on which…