Trump’s EPA Greenlighted a Pesticide That Harms Kids’ Brains. Hawaii Just Said, “Hell No.”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the early months of the Trump Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency reversed an Obama-era proposal to ban the widely used insecticide chlorpyrifos, which has been linked by ample research to inhibited brain development in children. “Hawaii’s efforts have set a precedent, and we hope this will pave…
The Justice Department’s Watchdog Is Investigating the FBI’s “Culture” of Leaks
Former FBI director James ComeyJose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The FBI leaked like a sieve in 2016, and those disclosures helped Donald Trump, according to a newly released inspector general’s report on former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The 500-page report from…
The Trump Administration Is Going to Build a Tent City at the Border for Migrant Children
A member of a Central American migrant caravan, holding a child, looks through the border fence.Hans-Maximo Musielik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration will build a tent city near the US-Mexico border in Texas to house hundreds of migrant children, including those separated from their parents. Approximately 450…
Crime Has Been Cut in Half Since 1991
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I figure you can never show people this chart too often. Since its peak in 1991, property crime has dropped to levels last seen in the mid-60s and violent crime is down to its level in 1970. In some large cities, it’s dropped even more.…
Exasperated Reporter Confronts Sanders Over Trump Administration’s Cruelty to Immigrant Children
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As condemnation grows over the more than 1,300 children separated from their families because of the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy at the border, the White House on Thursday continued to repeat the false assertion that the policy is required by a long-standing, decades-old court order. “The laws are…
Here Are Three Excerpts From the IG’s Comey Report
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Well, it turns out I’ve got a few minutes before my flight leaves, so here are a few excerpts from the inspector general’s report on the FBI’s handling of the 2016 election. First off, we have the reason for James Comey’s unprecedented decision to editorialize…