The Heartwarming Messages Shared Between the Stranded Thai Boys and Their Parents
A boy smiles as a Thai Navy SEAL medic helps injured children inside a cave in northern Thailand, where a group of boys and their soccer coach were trapped.Royal Thai Navy Facebook Page/AP The kids wrote about their favorite meals, their school obligations, and helping their parents at the store. The families told them they…
While America Sleeps: Trump’s Treachery and the Russia Scandal
Donald Trump meets with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Listen to David discuss the president’s cover-up of the Russia scandal on the Mother Jones Podcast. In 1938, Winston Churchill published a collection of his speeches warning that his homeland was not…
Trump Says the US Is Trying to Reunite Kids With Their Families
Yin Bogu/Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This morning, President Donald Trump tweeted that the United States is helping with efforts to reunite families whose children have been separated from them due to heart-wrenching circumstances beyond their control: The U.S. is working very closely with the Government of…
Here’s What Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump Talk About When No One Else Is Listening
Metzel Mikhail/TASS via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What do President Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin talk about during their occasional phone calls? According to a sobering piece from the Washington Post, it’s exactly what you’d expect—fake news, the deep state, and…friendship: Some White House officials…
As Trump’s China Tariffs Kick In, US Farmers Watch Prices Slide
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s long-simmering, multi-front trade war is about to escalate: On Friday, the United States plans to begin slapping a 25 percent tariff on $34 billion worth of goods from China, which has vowed to retaliate immediately with its own duties on US goods. …
Andrés Manuel López Obrador Wins Mexico’s Presidential Election
Jose Pazos/Notimex/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mexican voters on Sunday elected leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador as their next president, sending a strong rebuke to Enrique Peña Nieto, the country’s current president, whose popularity has tanked amid rampant violence and corruption. Exit polls had López Obrador winning…