Civil Rights Groups Target Majority-Black Georgia County Seeking to Shutter Most Polling Places
A Georgia voter waits in a long line during early voting in October 2008.Erik Lesser/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Civil rights groups are mobilizing to block a majority-black Georgia county from shuttering seven of its nine polling locations for the November elections, alleging that the plan by the county…
Kavanaugh Wanted Ken Starr to Ask Bill Clinton These Wildly Lewd Questions
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in July.Tom Williams/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Before Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh became a federal appellate judge, he spent his early legal career working in Washington as a lawyer for Ken Starr, the independent counsel appointed to investigate President Bill…
Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Revoke More Security Clearances
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump appeared to continue laying the groundwork on Monday for revoking a Justice Department official’s security clearance. In a sarcastic tweet, he questioned whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions would ever move to fire Bruce Ohr, the little-known official the White House…
Kanye West Wore Slippers This Weekend
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the weekend, rapper 2 Chainz staged a $300,000 wedding: But it was quickly upstaged by Kanye West, who arrived in a pair of slip-on sandals that were oddly undersized for his feet. The gray slides, described by some Twitter users as resembling orthopedic shoes,…
Trump Fumes Over Reports White House Counsel Is Cooperating With Mueller
Ting Shen/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Continuing his stream of angry tweets from this weekend, President Donald Trump on Monday continued to reject reports that White House counsel Don McGahn has cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller. Insisting that he had given McGahn full permission to sit down for interviews…
Trump Keeps Trying to Kill the Agency That Investigates Chemical Plant Disasters
Mcs2 Justin Stumberg/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a warm morning in April, workers at a Wisconsin oil refinery were conducting a routine shutdown for maintenance. Suddenly, a gasoline cracking unit exploded,…