Donald Trump Flies to Singapore After Triumphant G7 Meeting. I Am Not Being Sarcastic.
Michael Kappeler/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Apparently our president decided he was starving for some badly-needed media attention last week. Here’s the rundown: On Thursday announces he will be leaving the G7 meeting early. On Friday announces he will pardon Muhammad Ali even though Ali has nothing…
Pope Francis Did Not Mince Words With Oil Company Execs
Pope Francis delivers a speech during a meeting with Youth Eucharistic Movement at the Vatican in August 2015. Gregorio Borgia/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a closed-door meeting at the Vatican on Saturday, Pope Francis urged oil company executives to transition to clean energy, warning that climate change represents…
This Photo Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Trump’s Presence at the G7 Summit
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s official Instagram account posted a picture from what her office described simply as a “spontaneous meeting between two working sessions” from the Group of 7 nations summit in Quebec City this weekend where President Donald Trump: railed against “ridiculous…
They Separated Him From His Wife and Child at the Border. Then He Took His Own Life.
Immigration detainees sit in their cells at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, Calif., in 2010. Jae C. Hong/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days after 40 Democratic senators called on the Trump administration to end its “inhumane decision” to separate families at the border, the Washington Post reported…
Trump Says He’ll Use “My Touch, My Feel” To Assess Kim Jong-un’s Nuclear Plans
President Donald Trump attends a breakfast with G7 leaders and members of the Gender Equality Advisory Council in Quebec City. Michael Kappeler/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly before bailing out early on the Group of 7 nations meetings held outside of Quebec City this weekend, President Trump made some curious…
California’s Fossil Fuel Industry Had It Relatively Easy Under Jerry Brown. That’s Going to Change After November.
Jeff ChiuAP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In California’s primary election Tuesday, voters all but picked statewide politicians and decided who would face off in the races that might flip the House of Representatives. But the…