Gold Bars, Cash, and Halal Meat: The Wild Allegations Against Bob Menendez
Robert and Nadine Menendez, seen here at a State Dinner in 2022, were both indicted Friday for corruption.Sarah Silbiger/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Sen. Robert Menendez was charged Friday with using his power to help three men and the Egyptian government in exchange…
New Gun Charges Are Hunter Biden’s Latest Legal Problem
Hunter Biden leaves federal in Wilmington on July 26, 2023.Saquan Stimpson/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged Hunter Biden with lying about his drug use when he bought a gun in 2018. The three-count indictment is the latest twist in…
With Nothing on Joe Biden, Republicans Move Toward Impeaching Him Anyway
President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden on June 25, 2023.Andrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Over the last nine months, House Republicans have assembled a decent case that Hunter Biden should not be the president of the United States. Joe Biden,…
I Found a Vape Pen at My Son’s School. Finding Out What Was Inside Was a Lot Harder.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this year, I found an empty THC cartridge package by the court after one of my son’s high school basketball games. Cannabis vapes are illegal for everyone in Texas, where I live, much less for minors. I scooped…
Congress is Finally Fixing the (Very Broken) Organ Donor Network
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A bipartisan bill to reform the national organ donor network has reached President Joe Biden’s desk, spelling the likely end of a troubled monopoly in place for close to four decades. Signed, the law will let…
Fetterman and Feinstein Both Face Ableism. But Their Situations Aren’t the Same.
Francis Chung/Politico/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In recent months, there have been growing concerns about whether 90-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has represented California in the Senate since 1992, can fulfill her congressional duties. No White House judicial nominees were able to be…