Air Pollution Denial Could Become EPA Policy
Xinhua News Agency/GettyImages Contributor Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Much of the Republican Party has long denied the science of climate change—that humans are causing the planet to warm. They’ve been less willing, historically, to deny…
A Court Finally Forced the Government to Ban this Gnarly Neurotoxic Pesticide
Crop sprayer spraying pesticides on crops in field.simonkr/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last March, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt abruptly reversed the agency’s own proposal to ban chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide widely used by US farmers. Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finally ordered the EPA to…
A Republican Nominee in Missouri Defended Hitler and Equated Muslims With the KKK
The background for West’s YouTube videos includes bizarre references to Barack Obama and Tweety Bird.YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steve West, a Kansas City-based engineer, won the Republican primary for a seat in the Missouri House of Representatives this week by trumpeting “old American” values. On his campaign website,…
Melania Trump’s Parents Just Became Citizens Through a Process Her Husband Wants to Make Illegal
Viktor and Amalija Knavs listen as their attorney makes a statement in New York on Thursday. First lady Melania Trump’s parents have been sworn in as U.S. citizens. Seth Wenig/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has long demanded an end to “chain migration”—Republicans’ favorite term for the practice…
The Shadow Rulers of the VA
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter before signing an executive order at the Department of Veterans Affairs.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last February, shortly after Peter O’Rourke became chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs, he received…
CNN Anchor Don Lemon Calls Trump Racist
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. CNN anchor Don Lemon called President Donald Trump “publicly racist” Monday night in a nine-minute diatribe on “CNN Tonight.” Lemon was responding to comments the president made Friday on Twitter, in which he called Lemon the “dumbest man on television.” Trump said Lemon made LeBron…