A Rare 100-Pound Moonfish Washed up on the Oregon Coast
An Opah fish, more than 3.5 feet long, washed up on the coast of Oregon’s Sunset Beach.Seaside Aquarium/Facebook Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An unusual sight has…
Top Trump Adviser Arrested and Charged With Secretly Lobbying for the UAE
Tom Barrack speaks at the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Tom Barrack, a friend and longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, was arrested Tuesday and charged with violating foreign lobbying laws…
Jeff Bezos Thanks Amazon Workers and Customers for Making Him So Rich He Can Go to Space
Chuck Bigger/Space Symposium via ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Tuesday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos became the second billionaire in as many weeks to sort-of go to space. The world’s richest man spent several minutes in zero gravity on…
New Poll: Arizona Democrats Love Biden and Kelly. Kyrsten Sinema? Not So Much.
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s support for the Senate filibuster appears to be doing real damage to her political brand back home. The first-term Arizona Democrat has often defended the Senate’s 60-vote supermajority…
Canada Is Beating the United States at Vaccination
People queuing at a Toronto vaccination site in June.Creative Touch Imaging/NurPhoto via Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Just a few months ago, the United States was far ahead of Canada in its COVID-19 vaccination rate. Not anymore. Now, compared to Americans, a…
Illinois Becomes the First State to Block Cops from Lying to Kids
Rose Palmisano/OC Register/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This week, Illinois became the first state in the nation to make it illegal for police officers to lie to children during interrogations. The new law signed this week by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker…