Is LaCroix Safe? Yes. Natural? That’s Complicated.
Vivien Killilea/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. LaCroix, the zero-calorie bubbly water adored by millennials, has enjoyed incredible success in recent years. Its parent company, National Beverage Corp., remains tight-lipped about the recipes for this ever-so-lightly flavored sparkling water. A new lawsuit has thrown its formula into question. A proposed…
Gun Control Groups Keep Endorsing Republicans. Some Activists Are Fed Up.
A protester carries a sign during the March for Our Lives on March 24, 2018 in Washington, DC.Cal Sport Media via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Everytown for Gun Safety released a list of more than 70 political endorsements this week, most of the names were unsurprising. The…
The Attorney Spearheading the “Shitty Media Men” Lawsuit Is a Top Defender of Accused Campus Rapists
Mother Jones illustration; Mbsydor/Wikimedia Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the first days of the #MeToo movement in October 2017, journalist Moira Donegan opened a Google spreadsheet, titled it “Shitty Media Men,” and shared it with female friends and colleagues, asking them to add the names rumored or alleged sexual abusers or harassers—and…
Facebook Just Shared New Disturbing Details About its Massive Data Breach
Alexander Pohl/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two weeks ago, Facebook warned that attackers may have accessed the accounts of up to 50 million users. Today, the company provided an update reporting that instead of 50 million accounts, only 30 million were accessed. But that the breach exposed a mass of…
Chart of the Day: The Latest on Brett Kavanaugh
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new ABC poll conducted by Langer Research Associates confirms the huge gender gap in Republicans’ handling of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation: Only 35 percent of women approve of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, 13 points behind men. And 58 percent want Congress to continue investigating him, 11…
Senate Confirmation Appears Likely for Two More Judges Hostile Toward Abortion
Chad A. Readler, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, is sworn in to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on judicial nominations on October 10, 2018.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two appeals court nominees with strong anti-choice histories are likely to become the…