The Winners and Losers of Trump’s Tariff Bailout
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. About a month ago, the Trump administration announced its plans to spend up to $12 billion to help offset losses incurred by farmers as the president pursues a trade war against China and other major buyers of US agriculture goods. In a press call Monday,…
California Is About to Abolish Cash Bail. Criminal Justice Advocates Aren’t Happy.
Wavebreakmedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Criminal justice activists have long said California’s bail system needs reforming. Earlier this year, a California appellate court agreed, declaring the state’s system unconstitutional and making change inevitable. Then last week, Democrats in the state Legislature passed a bill that would effectively abolish cash bail once and for all. …
Here’s What It’s Like to Lose Your Home in California’s Wildfires
Hundreds of homes were burnt to the ground in Coffey Park as high winds pushed the Tubbs fire from house to house. David Gross/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michele Rahmn woke with a start at 1:45 a.m. Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. She smelled smoke. She shook her husband,…
Delicious Purple Beans Connected One Chef to Her Family’s Culinary Past
Yardlong BeansBSPollard/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Aileen Suzara reaches into her refrigerator and pulls out a tangle of yardlong beans, a popular ingredient in Filipino cuisine. They look like green beans, except, as the name implies, they’re much, much longer. And instead of green, they’re a deep purple-maroon. When Suzara, a…
California Cops Shot and Killed 162 People Last Year. This Bill Could Help Reduce the Bloodshed.
Riot police officers stand guard at street after the World Cup match between Mexico and Brazil in Huntington Park, California, on Monday, July 2, 2018. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A California bill that would radically change the standard for the use of deadly force by police officers…
Ryan Zinke Is Clueless About Wildfires
To be fair, Zinke acknowledged that “there’s no doubt the [fire] season is getting longer, the temperatures are getting hotter,” as the Sacramento Bee reported. But he didn’t dwell on those factors and instead argued for more logging and thinning of forests while taking another swing at environmental groups that he says stand in the…