Move Over Farro: Freekeh Is Your New Favorite Grain
heinstirred/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Freekeh may sound like some punishing gruel savored only within the confines of hippie communes, circa 1976. But don’t let the name freak you out. Consumed throughout the Eastern Mediterranean at least since the 13th century, freekeh is the unripe, toasted grains of an…
Rudy Giuliani Says Trump Shouldn’t Testify Because “Our Recollection Keeps Changing”
Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rudy Giuliani is supposed to be on cleanup duty, but he keeps making a mess. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week,” the president’s personal attorney explained that it might be a bad idea for Trump…
Prominent Russian Journalist and Putin Critic Gunned Down in Kiev
Arkady BabchenkoJoerg Carstensen/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Arkady Babchenko, a prominent Russian journalist, author, and a longtime Putin detractor who fled Russia in February 2017, was fatally shot outside his apartment on Tuesday in Kiev, Ukraine. The wounded Babchenko was found by his wife and died in an ambulance…
Ireland Just Voted to Legalize Abortion
Niall Carson/PA Wire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Ireland made history when the country voted to repeal its constitution’s Eighth Amendment, one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. The referendum’s passage is a huge win for reproductive-rights advocates in a Catholic country that for decades pledged to…
Russia’s Campaign to Help Trump Win Was Just the Start
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former FBI special agent Clint Watts was tracking Islamic State terrorists and their propaganda on Twitter in 2014 when he first encountered a different kind of troll. These accounts weren’t trying to recruit fighters for jihad. They were promoting an…
Israel Kills Dozens of Protesters as Trump’s Family Celebrates New Jerusalem Embassy
Sebastian Scheiner/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Israeli forces killed dozens of Palestinians protesting the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, President Donald Trump published a video message commemorating what he hailed as a long overdue and “historic” move to officially recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s “true”…