Overflowing Port-a-Potties and Trash—This Is What National Parks Are Like During a Government Shutdown
Large groups continue to pour into Joshua Tree National Park despite the government shutdown.Nick Kirkpatrick/Washington Post/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since the government shutdown began on December 22, the nation’s 417 parks, battlefields, and monuments have become unsupervised playgrounds—open to the public with few, if any, staffers to rein…
Here’s What the USDA’s New Nutrition Rules Mean for the 30 Million Children Eating School Lunches
princessdlaf/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, the US Department of Agriculture issued new nutrition standards for school lunches that make it easier for schools to offer less healthy meals to students. The new rules significantly dilute the high standards set by the Obama administration’s 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act,…
The Worst Anti-Science BS of 2018
Donald Trump has a “natural instinct for science.”Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was a banner year in the war on science, as politicians, media figures, and celebrities used their platforms to promote pseudoscience and interfere with evidence-based policies. Here are five of the most egregious examples. And…
John Kelly Doesn’t Want to Talk About All the Things He Helped Trump Do
Then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly attends a meeting between President Donald J. Trump and US House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi and US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on December 11, 2018. Michael Reynolds/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The government has been partially shut down since December 21 because…
During Shutdown, Trump Signs Order Canceling Next Year’s Raise for Federal Workers
Chris Kleponis/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the seventh day of the partial shutdown of the federal government, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will make life even harder for federal workers. On Friday, Trump issued a new rule that freezes a planned 2.1 percent raise for…
Trump Takes No Responsibility For Two Migrant Children Who Died in Border Patrol Custody
Niall Carson/PA Wire/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two children, aged 7 and 8-years-old, died this month while in Border Patrol custody. On Saturday, President Donald Trump offered his first response to the deaths, but rather than offering condolences he lashed out and blamed Democrats for not funding his wall,…