Trump Impeachment Liveblog, Day 3: Trump All but Threatens the Whistleblower
Mother Jones illustration The whistleblower’s complaint at the heart of Trump’s Ukraine scandal is officially out. The release kicks off another chaotic day on Capitol Hill, with Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, set to testify before lawmakers. Later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will give a press conference on the latest developments. Follow…
Read The Whistleblower Complaint at the Center of Trump’s Ukraine Scandal
Li Muzi/ZUMA The whistleblower complaint at the heart of allegations that President Donald Trump pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate Joe Biden was released Thursday morning, the latest development in the exploding scandal that led House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week to launch formal impeachment proceedings. The public release comes one day after lawmakers on the…
Arctic Ice Is Melting Faster Than Expected. These Scientists Have a Radical Idea to Save It.
Krista Kahl/Ice911 Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments. A group of researchers have found that millions of these spheres spread in a layer across swaths of Arctic ice…
I Walked 10 Miles and Visited 13 Stores to See How Hard It Is to Get Emergency Contraception
People Images/Getty Images “You need a prescription for this,” the pharmacist at CVS tells me when I appear at her counter with a box of Plan B One-Step. Even though the product is displayed on an open shelf next to pregnancy tests and packages of condoms, it’s packaged in a plastic container requiring store assistance…
Yes, Of Course There Was a Quid Pro Quo
Was there a quid pro quo in President Trump’s phone call with the president of Ukraine? That is, did he ask for an investigation of a political opponent in return for providing military aid that Congress had already approved? There is, of course, not an explicit request. There never is. But it’s pretty obvious anyway…
Trump Asking for Dirt on Biden Was Almost Certainly Illegal. Why Did DOJ Decline to Investigate It?
President Donald Trump at the United Nations 74th General Assembly in New York on September 24, 2019. Utrecht/Action Press via ZUMA As we all now know, the July 25 phone call between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky helped push a member of the intelligence community to file a whistleblower complaint, which…