30 Years Ago, a Racist Juror Sentenced This Black Man to Death
ftwitty/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On September 25, 1990, Keith Tharpe disobeyed a judge’s orders requiring him to stay away from his estranged wife and her family after he had threatened them with violence. While his wife and her sister-in-law Jaqueline Freeman were on their way to work, Tharpe blocked their…
Holy, Toledo! This Ohio City Is Voting to Give Legal Rights to a Lake
Lake Erie nayuco/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Toledo, Ohio, a city of nearly 300,000 situated on the western edge of Lake Erie, may not seem like a mecca of progressive environmental policy. But on Tuesday, the city’s denizens will vote on a radical ballot measure to recognize that a…
Marco Rubio Is So Pumped Up About Venezuela He Just Tweeted a Snuff Film
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press. And also, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio tweeting out a still from a snuff film: pic.twitter.com/ZwxbWyV1HF — Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 24, 2019 On the left, that’s former Libyan dictator Moammar Qadaffi, and on the right…that’s a captured…
A Top Democrat Just Threatened to Subpoena the Mueller Report “If Necessary”
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On ABC’s This Week, House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that if the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election aren’t released to the public, he and his colleagues will use subpoena…
Donald Trump Said North Korea Wasn’t a Nuclear Threat. Mike Pompeo Just Contradicted Him on CNN.
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo aren’t on the same page on North Korea’s nuclear weapons, just days away from a major summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam. In a Sunday morning interview on CNN, Pompeo was…
This Is How One Family Tries to Makes Sense of Losing Its Colorado River Water
What was once a marina sits high and dry due to Lake Mead receding in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona.John Locher/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The furrows in a…