A Judge Dealt a Potentially Fatal Blow to the Keystone Pipeline
Indigenous leaders and climate activists disrupt business at a Chase Bank branch in Seattle to protest funding tar sands development and projects like the Keystone XL pipeline.Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a slew of climate-friendly ballot initiatives went down in flames on Election Day in Arizona,…
Donald Trump Has a Sneaky New Way To Help Religious Employers Deny Women Birth Control
areeya_ann/iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past two years, the Trump administration has been trying to gut access to birth control coverage for women: It proposed rules that would allow almost any employer to claim moral or religious exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s mandate of…
There Are Now More Than 14,000 Immigrant Kids in Federal Custody—a New Record
Immigrants walk into a building at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.Charles Reed/US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The number of immigrant children in federal custody has reached an all-time high, with more than 14,000 children currently being held in government facilities, the San…
Trump’s EPA Surprises Critics by Toughening Rules on Big-Rig Truck Pollution
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency announced a new effort to slash pollution from heavy-duty trucks, surprising critics who say the move is the Trump administration’s first to increase regulations on emitters. Flanked by the heads of trucking industry associations, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew…
The Acting Attorney General Helped an Alleged Scam Company Hawk Bizarre Products
Matthew Whitaker at a Justice Department roundtable on August 29, 2018.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In November 2014, a Miami Beach-based firm, World Patent Marketing, announced the “marketing launch” of a “MASCULINE TOILET,” which boasted a specially designed bowl to help “well-endowed men” avoid unwanted contact with porcelain…
Trump Campaign Paid Millions to Trump Businesses During Midterms
Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign raised and spent an unprecedented sum of money during the midterm elections. But much of that cash wasn’t used to help endangered Republicans in Congress—it was used to help Donald Trump. Presidential campaigns don’t typically raise much—or any—money…