London Stages Massive Protests as Trump Visits United Kingdom
Matt Dunham/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tens of thousands of people marched across the streets of London Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s first official visit to the United Kingdom, with many demonstrators carrying signs condemning Trump’s policies both at home and abroad. Others mocked the president’s intelligence. The massive…
Big Pharma Ditches Antibiotic Research When It’s Needed Most
Julien Behal/PA Wire via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every year, at least 2 million Americans get infected with bacteria that have evolved to resist antibiotics, and at least 23,000 people die. Globally, resistant pathogens take 700,000 lives annually. Given this level of disease and death, you might think Big Pharma…
We’re Seeing an Epidemic of #BBQBecky-Type Calls. Here’s How Police Could Deal With Them.
A screenshot from the viral #BBQBecky video.Michelle Snider/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, Erica Walker, then manager of an apartment complex in Memphis, Tennessee (she was subsequently fired), became the latest white person to gain notoriety for calling police on a black person—in this case because the man…
As Trump Visits His Scottish Golf Course, a Mystery Remains
Andrew Milligan/PA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During his trip to the United Kingdom this week, Donald Trump is expected to squeeze in a golf outing at one of his two Scottish courses, the Trump Turnberry in Ayrshire and Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire. With this side trip,…
Starbucks Banning Straws Won’t Clean Up the Ocean, but It’s Still a Big Deal
StockSnap 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. To have an honest conversation about the ocean plastics crisis, one must accept two hard truths. The first is that the situation is dire: Every year, more than 8 million metric…
Food Stamps Are Too Complicated. This Is a Much Better Way to Fix Hunger.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here in the United States, 18 percent of people live in poverty. For particularly vulnerable groups like children and the elderly, the poverty rate exceeds 20 percent. Annie Lowrey, an economics writer for The Atlantic and author of the new book Give People Money: How a…