Looking Thrilled, Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Embrace With Bro-Handshake
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Among all world leaders gathering in Buenos Aires for the G-20 summit, two on Friday appeared especially delighted to greet one another: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Their public embrace, which featured a hearty handshake and big smiles, was quickly followed…
This Critique of America’s Military Was Perfectly Timed to Increase the Pentagon Budget
Commission On The National Defense Strategy co-chairs Eric Edelman (L) and retired Navy Admiral Gary Roughead testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the commission’s findings. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The release of a landmark, independent assessment of the Pentagon’s national defense strategy earlier this…
Trump Just Lashed Out at a Former Navy SEAL for Not Catching Osama Bin Laden Sooner
President Donald Trump speaks during a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony White House Friday.Cheriss May/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump dismissed criticism from the retired four-star admiral and former Navy SEAL who led the raid that took out Osama bin Laden in 2011 in a…
Good News! The Ozone Layer Is On the Road to Recovery!
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a rare piece of good news about the environment—and proof of what concerted global action can achieve—the United Nations announced in a Monday report that the ozone layer, which was significantly damaged over the course of decades by humans, is on…
Deep Inside a Pro-Putin Network That’s Helping Trump Divide America
Putin and Trump at a summit in Helsinki, July 2018Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every day, the roughly 600 Kremlin-linked accounts tracked in real time on the Hamilton 68 dashboard dive into the hot Twitter topics of the moment. They have fanned rancor over the NFL’s #TakeAKnee…
Your Halloween Candy’s Hidden Ingredient: Child Slave Labor
FatCamera/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re buying last-minute Halloween candy, you might want to know about a recent ruling by the US Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit in a long-running lawsuit against Nestlé and agribusiness giant Cargill that alleges the companies aided and abetted child slavery on cocoa…