Donald Trump’s Statement on Saudi Arabia Is a Lot Worse Than Just Removing a Mask
Cheriss May/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Donald Trump wrote a statement defending Saudi Arabia because they: buy lots of military equipment from us; sell lots of oil to us; are on our side against Iran; and anyway, we’ll never know if the Kingdom’s Crown Prince—and…
Disapproval of Trump on Race Has Ebbed a Bit Since Charlottesville
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Eugene Scott reports that most of America disapproves of the way Donald Trump is handling race relations: Nearly 60 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Trump is handling race relations, according to the most recent Quinnipiac University poll. The only group that gives him…
Bitcoin and Gift Cards: Two Great Scams That Are Even Scammier Together
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You may be aware of the scammers who pretend to be IRS agents and make phone calls demanding payment of back taxes. The most bizarre thing about this is that they want payment in gift cards. Gift cards! And yet this still doesn’t tip some…
Kevin the Carrot Fights Back Against Kevinism (and Parsnips)
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Have you seen this tweet? Who ‘bagged their own Carrots’ this morning? 🥕 Share your pics of your cuddly friends in their new homes with #KevinTheCarrot! 🥕 pic.twitter.com/sQIf4Aq7iq — Kevin The Carrot (@IKevinTheCarrot) November 22, 2018 No? Shame on you. The 2018 version of Kevin…
After the Fires, Scientists Race to Predict Deadly Mudslides
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. California continues to take stock of its unprecedented conflagrations—between the Camp Fire in the north, which on its own is the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history,…
A Gunman Targeted Their Church, Here’s How They Remember that Day
fstop123/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In late October a few hours after the weekly noontime Bible study, Travis Hines didn’t know that a gunman was outside. The 43-year-old Family Life Director at the First Baptist Church in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, was inside the church with a few of his colleagues, when a…