Environmentalists Are Worried Trump’s Supreme Court Pick “Is the Next Scott Pruitt”
Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Unlike the president who nominated him to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh doesn’t hesitate to call climate change a problem. “The task of dealing with global warming is urgent and important at the national and international level,” he wrote in a…
Welcome to Tampa, Where Feral Chickens Are High on the Pecking Order
Dylan Breese/Ybor Chicken Society Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today, Tampa, Florida’s city council will decide the fate of its feathered population. The city’s Cuban quarter, called Ybor City, has long been home to roaming feral chickens. Smaller in stature and more agile than your ordinary backyard birds, they have…
Trump’s FEMA to Americans: Don’t Count on Us This Hurricane Season
Eliud Echevarria/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Federal Emergency Management Agency was already supporting 692 federally declared disasters when hurricane season started last year. Then came the most destructive disaster season…
Court Documents Show How OxyContin’s Sales Team Pushed “Hope in a Bottle”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2007, a sales representative for Purdue Pharma visited a family doctor in Kingston, Tennessee, to urge the physician to prescribe more OxyContin. The doctor was interested in pain management, but didn’t prescribe the opioid painkiller because he’d heard that it was often resold on…
The NRA Has Deep Ties to Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina
Maria Butina in Moscow, in a photo she posted to Facebook in October 2013 Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, the National Rifle Association has promoted its hard-line politics with appeals to patriotism, freedom, and the staunch defense of the Second Amendment. But now, the controversial gun lobbying group…
There’s Something the Intelligence Community Wants You to Know
John Middlebrook/CSM via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This report from the New York Times is getting a lot of attention tonight: Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to…