Trump Defends ICE as Thousands Across the Country Protest Family Separation
Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As protesters across the country today demand that children be reunited with their families on the southwest US border, President Donald Trump defended the work of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Democrats are making a strong push to abolish ICE, one…
Jared Kushner Is an Idiot
Toya Sarno Jordan/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A comedian pretending to be Sen. Bob Menendez called President Trump on Wednesday and got a callback from Air Force One. They chatted and the comedian posted the conversation. But this is not the real story. The real story is…
Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda Sing a Lullaby For Kids Detained on the US Border
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In front of thousands at the Families Belong Together rally in Washington, D.C., Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the hit musical “Hamilton,” sang a lullaby for parents who have been separated from their children at the border. “We’re here because there’s parents right now who can’t sing lullabies to…
Donald Trump Is Not Going to Withdraw From the WTO
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Axios reports that President Trump really, really wants to exit the World Trade Organization, the primary agreement that governs free trade throughout the world: What we’re hearing: “He’s [threatened to withdraw] 100 times. It would totally [screw] us as a country,” said a source who’s…
GM: Tariffs Are Bad for America and Bad for GM
Come on, Mary, tell us what you really think of Donald Trump.Kimberly P. Mitchell/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I mentioned a couple of days ago that Donald Trump’s strategy of attacking his enemies with every tool at his disposal has been working pretty well. Corporate America in…
The Deepwater Horizon Spill Happened 8 Years Ago. The Ocean Still Hasn’t Recovered.
Researchers took sediment samples in 2014 from shipwrecks scattered up to 150 kilometers (93 miles) from the spill site to study how microbial communities on the wrecks have changed. On two shipwrecks close to the source of the outpouring of oil—a German U-Boat and a wooden 19th-century sailing vessel—scientists saw a visible oil residue. “At…