Mueller Indicts Trump Pal Roger Stone
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Roger Mueller has indicted yet another Trump confidant: Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, was arrested Friday by the FBI in Florida on charges that he lied and tried to tamper with a witness to hide…
Bloomberg: It Costs $4,000 to Mine a Bitcoin Worth $3,600
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bloomberg provides the latest on Bitcoin: The production-weighted cash cost to create one Bitcoin averaged around $4,060 globally in the fourth quarter, according to analysts with JPMorgan Chase & Co. With Bitcoin itself currently trading below $3,600, that doesn’t look like such a good deal.…
Researchers Find that E-Scooters Are a Fun, Easy Way to Go to the ER
picture alliance/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In September 2017, Tarak Trivedi, an emergency room doctor, and Catherine Lerer, a personal injury attorney, started seeing electric scooters everywhere. Santa Monica, California, where they live, was the first city where the scooter company Bird rolled out its rechargeable two-wheelers, which…
Study: Gunshot Wounds Cost Us Nearly $1 Billion in Hospital Bills Every Year
ugurhan/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Researchers have long known that the impacts of gun violence ripple out far beyond victims and their families. But the price we pay as a country can be hard to measure, because data is hard to come by. (And the National Rifle Association is…
Is Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Constitutional?
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The contest to propose the most progressive tax plan possible got kicked up a notch today: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will propose a new annual “wealth tax” on Americans with more than $50 million in assets, according to an economist advising her on…
No Liberal Equivalent of the Federalist Society? Please.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at Politico, Evan Mandery wonders why there’s no liberal equivalent to the Federalist Society, the right-wing legal organization that’s become the guiding light of conservative thought about the law: Over the past three decades, the Federalist Society has ascended from modest origins to become…