The Midterms Have the Power to Usher in an Era of Climate Action
James Victore; Source: T-Rex: Turbosquid; Trump: Dominic Reuter/Reuters Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the most important thing to know about climate politics in this critical election year: How fast we act decides the future we get. Of course, climate politics seems to be about many things, things that this…
President Trump Defends Saudi Leader as “Incredible Ally”
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday night, President Donald Trump defended Saudi Arabia as an “incredible ally” while at the same time criticizing the monarchy’s explanation that Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed during a fistfight with 15 men inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey. Turkish investigators have…
Joe Biden Calls Trump’s Handling of Journalist’s Death “Embarrassing” and “Dangerous”
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the stump in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, former Vice President Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as “embarrassing” and “dangerous.” Just yesterday, Trump repeated that he found credible Saudi Arabia’s latest claim that…
Trump’s Former Lawyer Is Now Trying to Get Out the Vote For Democrats
Go Nakamura/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In one of the stranger twists of the midterm cycle, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, who once said he’d “take a bullet” for Trump, is now trying to get out the vote for Democrats. “Listen, here’s my recommendation,” Cohen told CNN outside his…
Trump Accepts Saudi Arabia’s Latest Story About Journalist Dying in a “Fistfight”
Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Saudi Arabia has again changed its official line on the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, marking its first admission since his October 2 disappearance that Khashoggi died in its consulate in Istanbul. The country’s new story, according to the Washington Post, is…
New Justice Department Case Shows Russia Is Now Attacking the Midterm Elections
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in JulyValery Sharifulin/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia unsealed a criminal complaint accusing a Russian national named Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova of conspiring to interfere in…