You Like Your Music Angsty and Exuberant? Listen to These Dudes.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Album Reviews Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night SweatsTearing at the SeamsStax Barrence Whitfield and the SavagesSoul Flowers of TitanBloodshot Robust rock and soul singers are often referred to as “shouters,” a term that doesn’t do justice to the personality and skill some artists bring to…
The FBI Is Too White—And It Considers That a “Huge Operational Risk”
FBI Director Christopher Wray. Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. For the FBI, the long-standing failure to diversify its ranks is nothing short of “a huge operational risk,” according to one senior official, something that compromises the agency’s ability…
Industry Kills Nearly 40 Million Birds Per Year. The Trump Administration Doesn’t Think That’s Enough.
Louisiana Governors Office/Planet Pix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From the cockpit of a Cessna airplane, Gary Mowad, a special agent for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, spotted what looked like a dried-out pond in rural…
Retired Four-Star General Calls Donald Trump a “Serious Threat” to National Security
Metzel Mikhail/TASS/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, a retired four-star Army general tweeted that President Donald Trump is a “serious threat” to national security. Barry McCaffrey, who worked as the White House’s drug czar during the Bill Clinton administration, said Trump is refusing to protect the United States from…
Donald Trump Just Lashed Out at Andrew McCabe Again on Twitter. This Time, James Comey Responded.
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump is still gloating about Andrew McCabe’s firing. On Saturday afternoon, the president tweeted that while he did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential election, high-ranking officials at the FBI, the Department of Justice, and State Department were involved in…
Trump Lawyer “Prays” for Shutdown of Mueller Probe
Alex Wong/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday morning, President Donald Trump’s lawyer John Dowd told the Daily Beast he hoped Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, would end Bob Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia’s alleged interference with the 2016 presidential election. “I pray that Acting…