A New Memoir Details How the Criminal Justice System Puts Sexual Assault Survivors Through Hell
Mariah Tiffany After Chanel Miller was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner on the Stanford University campus in January 2015, she tried to keep the attack secret from most of her family and friends. As details of the crime were reported—two grad students on bikes had spotted Turner on top of the unconscious Miller behind a…
Rising Seas Aren’t Even the Scariest Part of Climate Change in the Oceans
Mlenny, Getty Climate change has already taken an irreversible toll on our oceans and frozen places, warns a major new report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Much of the carbon pollution we’ve pumped into the air has gone directly into the world’s seas: They have absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat from the…
Trump Says He Will Release Ukraine Phone Call
Phase 7 coming right up! I am currently at the United Nations representing our Country, but have authorized the release tomorrow of the complete, fully declassified and unredacted transcript of my phone conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine…. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019 I have no doubt that this call will not…
Trump Impeachment Liveblog: Pelosi To Announce Formal Impeachment Inquiry?
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to address the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters Tuesday.AP Photo/Mary Altaffer The calls to impeach President Donald Trump are growing louder after he admitted to discussing former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden on a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.…
House Dems Demand that Trump Turn Over Ukraine Documents by Thursday
Representative Elijah Cummings (D-M.D.) speaks at a press conference on Capitol Hill in July. Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Three top congressional Democrats announced Tuesday that they are giving the White House two days to turn over documents related to President Donald Trump’s reported efforts to coerce the president of Ukraine into helping him dig up…
How the Democrats Blew the Biggest Political Scandal in US History
Evan Vucci/AP When the Democrats were clobbered in the 2016 election, they were handed both a political gift and a grave responsibility. That presidential campaign had included the most significant scandal in the history of the United States. A foreign adversary had covertly interfered to boost the chances of the underdog candidate who won—and that…