Sarah Palin Says John McCain “Had Some Strange People Around Him”
Sarah Palin delivers a speech in 2008.Kiichiro Sato,/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Poor John McCain can’t die in peace without a last few digs from his former vice-presidential running mate, Sarah Palin. While most of the political world was fondly remembering McCain and issuing sympathetic statements to his…
Multiple Fatalities in Mass Shooting at Jacksonville Madden Video Game Event
Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams, right, holds a news conference Sunday after a gunman opened fire during an online video game tournament that was being livestreamed from a Florida mall, killing multiple people and sending many others to hospitals.Laura Heald/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update 5 pm ET: Jacksonville sheriff…
What’s Donald Trump Doing This Weekend?
FILE – In this June 27, 2012, file photo, Donald Trump stands on the 14th fairway during a pro-am round of the AT&T National golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. Patrick Semansky, File/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump arrived this morning for his second…
Most Republicans Couldn’t Care Less About the Manafort Conviction and Cohen Plea
In these 2018 file photos, Paul Manafort leaves federal court in Washington, left and attorney Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York. The one-two punch ahead of the midterm elections _ the plea from former Trump lawyer Cohen and the fraud conviction of one-time campaign chairman Manafort _ is presenting the biggest loyalty test…
Should We Relocate Species That Can’t Keep Up With Climate Change?
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Like many Westerners, giant sequoias came recently from farther east. Of course, “recent” is a relative term. “You’re talking millions of years (ago),” William Libby said. The…
Bad Historical Analogies, Superdelegate Edition
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