Jeff Sessions Named as Potential Witness in Alabama Corruption Trial
Michael Candelori / Pacific Press/Sipa USA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday was named as a potential witness in the federal corruption trial of an Alabama coal executive and two politically connected attorneys in that state, according to several Alabama news reports. The case—which is…
Trump’s Trade War Is Hurting Red-State Farmers—and Ripping Their GOP Senators Apart
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R.-Iowa), left, is clashing with Trump over trade policy.Bill Clark/ ZUMA, Evan Golub/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Having yet again teed up a multi-front trade war with the United States’ biggest agricultural trading partners—Mexico, China, Canada, and the European Union—President Donald Trump’s agricultural policy team is talking tough.…
What Canada Can Teach Trump About Milk
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The recent G-7 meeting ended in chaos, with President Donald Trump trading zingers with his better-haired rival, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. So now the United States is on the verge of a multi-front trade war, featuring Europe, China, and our erstwhile friendly neighbor, Canada. And Trump…
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…
Gun Maker Complains That People Are Saying Mean Things About Its Products on Social Media
High school students protest outside the White House after the Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas.Erin Scott/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. People are saying mean things about guns—and guns can’t defend themselves. That’s the message from Vista Outdoor, the $2.3 billion holding company that owns Savage Arms, one…
Sulfur Dioxide Damages Lungs, and Scott Pruitt Is Letting More of It in Our Air
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a quarter of the nation’s coal-fired power plants in 2017 lacked pollution controls limiting emissions of lung-damaging sulfur dioxide, even though some of their counterparts have been using the controls for almost 40 years. Federal data show this disparity. It leaves…