Thousands Fled Puerto Rico After Maria. But Can Florida Democrats Get Them to the Polls?
Kirsten Luce/NY Times/Redux Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced his 2018 bid challenging Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in April, he took the stage in an Orlando construction company warehouse, his trademark NAVY cap topping his hairless head. Scott offered the crowd some boilerplate aimed at…
Lawyers: Claims by Dallas Cop Who Entered the Wrong Apartment and Killed a Man Just Don’t Add Up
Attorneys for the family of Botham Shem Jean along with his relatives at a press conference on Monday September 10, 2018.Ryan Tarinelli Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mourners will congregate at Dallas West Church of Christ in Texas on Thursday for the funeral of Botham Shem Jean, the 26-year-old African…
Trump’s “Enemy of the People” Rhetoric Is Endangering Journalists’ Lives
Mother Jones illustration; Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since he campaigned for the White House, Donald Trump has attacked news outlets for negative reporting, singled out individual journalists for scorn, and turned his battle cry against “fake news”—a.k.a. reporting he dislikes—virtually into a personal brand.…
Hurricane Florence’s Forecasted Path Includes About 9 Toxic Waste Sites
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency is monitoring nine hazardous waste sites in the Carolinas in the event that Hurricane Florence unleashes toxic chemicals. “EPA Regions 3 and 4 are closely monitoring the projected path of Hurricane Florence,” an EPA spokesperson told HuffPost in a…
The House Is Trying to Sneak These Dangerous Changes Into the Farm Bill
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the world churns in Washington, Congress is quietly trying to finalize the farm bill. Surprise, surprise: Negotiations over the legislation are beset by clashing, and likely irreconcilable, House and Senate visions for this omnibus legislation that shapes US agriculture and hunger policy for five-year intervals. The…
New Data Shows How the NRA Used Parkland to End Its Trump Slump
President Donald Trump at the National Rifle Association convention in MaySue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly after he was suddenly named the president of the National Rifle Association in May, Oliver North said he hoped the pro-gun group would soon swell to 14 million members. Though that seems to…