Chicago’s Last Waterfall Is About to Disappear
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s hard to chase waterfalls in the city of Chicago. Although there is a smattering of decorative cascades—Stearns Quarry Park, for example, has a water feature made out of recycled sidewalk…
Skyscrapers Full of Lettuce Promise an Eco-Friendly Alternative to Outdoor Farming. There’s Just One Problem.
Jun Cen Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For growing food, the sun is yesterday’s technology. Soil? As quaint as an iPod. Such are the promises of vertical farms—indoor towers stacked high with crops. Waterborne nutrients feed the plants, and led lights drive their photosynthesis. The idea emerged back in 2000, when Columbia…
Pence Stumps for Candidate Who Said He Would Personally Round Up and Deport Immigrants
Vice President Mike Pence at the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas in June 2018. Rodger Mallison/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Vice President Mike Pence campaigned for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp on Saturday in the final days of the GOP’s primary run-off. Pence arrived late, coming from…
Ecuador May Be Getting Ready to Expel Julian Assange
Tolga Akmen/London News Pictures via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Glenn Greenwald reports that Julian Assange’s days taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London are probably numbered: Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno traveled to London on Friday for the ostensible purpose of speaking at the 2018 Global Disabilities Summit…
James Comey Answers Questions About Loyalty Rewards on “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”
Former FBI Director James Comey at a book tour event in New York city in April. Starmax/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former FBI Director James Comey made a guest appearance on “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” Thursday evening at a live taping outside Washington, DC. He took a quiz…
More Voters Are Being Kicked Off the Rolls, Especially in States with a History of Discrimination
Voters wait in line past the 7 p.m. closing time in a north Atlanta suburb on last day of early voting in Georgia in November 2016.Robin Rayne Nelson via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Voters are being deleted from the rolls at a significantly higher rate than they were…