“I Was Very Disappointed to See Propaganda Being Pumped into My Living Room”
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Judy Jones was watching the 11 p.m. news on her local NBC affiliate, WPBN, one evening when she saw her first “Terrorism Alert Desk,” a news segment that’s run daily across all TV stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Jones, a retired nonprofit director…
Stressed, Struggling, and Suicidal: America’s Farmers Are Begging for Mental Health Services
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Farmers’ advocacy groups called on Congress Monday to reauthorize, “with adequate funding,” a program that provides mental health services to distressed American farmers and their families. “Despite the growing need,” notes a letter to House and Senate agricultural committees signed by 36 rural and farming…
FBI Raids Office of Longtime Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The FBI raided the office and hotel room of President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Monday. Agents seized records related to several topics, among them Cohen’s 2016 payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, a pornographic film actress who says…
Ted Nugent Calls for Shooting “Half of Our Government”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s favorite conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recently sat down with Ted Nugent—the rock guitarist and NRA board member who was invited to the White House for a bizarre photo-op last year—for a conversation on the “true, America-hating” evil found in gun control advocates. The two…
There’s a New Problem With Trump’s Attacks on Amazon
Kyle Mazza/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has recently ramped up his attacks against Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos for not paying enough in local and state taxes. While there are plenty of problems with the president’s criticism, it looks as if hypocrisy might be a new one. Amazon…
Scott Pruitt Can Relax, He’s Probably Not Friday’s News Dump
Shealah Craighead/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has allies in high places who are not willing to give up on him after weeks of damaging stories. On Friday, President Trump took to Twitter to deny reports that he would replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Pruitt, and…