While Trump Fiddles, More Americans Than Ever Are Worried About Climate Change
stockstudioX/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Americans’ concerns about climate change have surged to record levels, new polling shows, following a year marked by devastating storms, wildfires and increasingly dire warnings from scientists. A total…
Yes, There Was Collusion. Look at the Manafort Case
Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For years now, Donald Trump has been screeching “No collusion!” It’s been a hollow cry, because throughout the 2016 campaign (and afterward as president), Trump aided and abetted Vladimir Putin’s attack on a US election by echoing Moscow’s disinformation that the Kremlin had…
Los Angeles Teachers Reach Deal to End Strike
Elementary school teachers Iris Marin, Mireya Gutierrez, and Lorena Redford, rally in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. Damian Dovarganes/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After six days of striking teachers picketing their schools, the teachers union and the Los Angeles Unified School District reached a tentative agreement that would end…
The Senate Republican Proposal to End the Shutdown Is Even More Extreme Than Trump’s
A girl from Honduras waits for a present given by a nongovernmental organization in December at a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico.Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If the Senate Republican proposal to reopen the government is any indication, the shutdown has no end in sight. At the…
The Supreme Court Just Let Trump’s Ban on Transgender Military Service Move Forward
Sipa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court permitted the Trump administration’s ban on transgender members of the armed services to move forward. In a 5-4 ruling Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court allowed the government to proceed with the controversial directive while the court considers whether it will formally review…
Is Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Ripping Off Sick People?
I couldn’t find a usable picture of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, but how about a nice picture of the Golden Gate Bridge instead?Rieger Bertrand/Hemis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sarah Kliff has been collecting hospital bills over the past year, and for the past couple of weeks she’s zoomed…