Here’s Some Folk-Pop for Confronting the Late-Night Demons
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cowboy JunkiesAll That ReckoningLatent Led by singer Margo Timmins and her brother, guitarist and songwriter Michael Timmins, Canada’s Cowboy Junkies have been making distinctive, brooding folk-pop for more than three decades. Though best known for their breakthrough second album, The Trinity Session, the group has…
How the Hospitals Serving Trump Voters Are Closing—And He’s Letting It Happen
Jun Cen Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By the time Copper Basin Medical Center launched a GoFundMe campaign in May last year, the hospital in the Appalachian foothills was buried in debt. It had been forced to suspend inpatient operations; many of its nurses and staffers had gone weeks without paychecks.…
Donald Trump Threatens to Annihilate Iran But No One Really Cares
Brian Cahn via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just before midnight, something got President Trump agitated and he hurled this tweet out into the ether: To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE…
Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Says There Are More Secret Tapes Between Trump and Michael Cohen
Michael Avenatti, attorney for Stormy DanielsRichard Drew, File/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In its April raid of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s offices, the FBI reportedly seized a recording of the president and his longtime lawyer discussing payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal in order to keep her quiet…
The FBI Released Documents on the Carter Page Wiretap. Then Trump Had a Twitter Meltdown.
Former Trump campaign advisor Carter PageJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, the Justice Department released previously-classified documents on the FBI’s surveillance of Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. The documents, a redacted version of the bureau’s 2016 application for a top-secret warrant to surveil Page under the…
Brett Kavanaugh Once Said the Watergate Tapes Decision Was “Wrongly Decided”
Supreme Court nominee Brett KavanaughJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh once suggested that the Supreme Court decision that forced President Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes may have been “wrongly decided.” Kavanaugh was taking part in a 1999 roundtable with other lawyers, according…