Cash Bonuses and Waived Drug Tests Couldn’t Help the Army Meet Its Recruitment Goals This Year
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Months after Donald Trump promised a “great rebuilding of the Armed Forces,” the Army said that it had missed its recruiting goal for the first time in over a decade. It had aimed to enlist 76,500 new members this year but missed the mark…
Heidi Heitkamp’s Latest Campaign Ad Targets Farmers Caught in Trump’s Trade War
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The race for North Dakota’s open senate seat has been called “nasty” by several news outlets, and for good reason: In their ads, the candidates don’t mince words about their opponents. In one, North Dakota representative Kevin Cramer calls the Democratic incumbent, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, “an…
The House Is Trying to Sneak These Dangerous Changes Into the Farm Bill
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the world churns in Washington, Congress is quietly trying to finalize the farm bill. Surprise, surprise: Negotiations over the legislation are beset by clashing, and likely irreconcilable, House and Senate visions for this omnibus legislation that shapes US agriculture and hunger policy for five-year intervals. The…
Haunting Poems and Photos From a State Torn by Fracking
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Julia Spicher Kasdorf pulled off Pennsylvania’s Route 15 on her way upstate in 2012, she noticed something she’d never seen before. Across the highway, by the restaurant where she and her husband stopped for lunch, helicopters dangling strange pendants were hovering over the mountainside.…
Donald Trump Doesn’t Care About that Obama Speech He Can’t Stop Talking About
President Donald Trump speaks at a fundraiser in Fargo, North Dakota on Friday. Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It took just hours for Donald Trump to hit back at Barack Obama on Friday. In the afternoon, the 45th president took to a campaign stage in Fargo, North Dakota, to…
Bernie Sanders Just Ramped Up His Feud With Amazon
New legislation would require Amazon to help pay for the welfare benefits its employees receive.Ted S. Warren/ AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has spent much of 2018 feuding with Amazon and the company’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, with Sanders objecting to the low wages offered by…