A Green Alternative to Cremation: Dissolving Your Corpse in Water and Lye
Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Samantha Sieber’s grandfather had a traditional American burial. His body was embalmed, put in a metal casket, and laid to rest at a cemetery, where…
How an Ancient Extinction Foreshadowed the Planet’s Future
NASA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In January, I stood in a ditch in the middle of nowhere in South Africa, and the summer sun beat down as I stared at a heap of grape soda-colored rocks.…
America’s Largest Doctor’s Group Calls for a Ban on Assault Weapons
CherriesJD/Getty/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The biggest group of physicians in the US called for a ban on assault weapons this week, reiterating that gun violence is a serious public health crisis and decrying proposals by the Trump administration to arm school teachers. Though many members of the American Medical…
Rudy Giuliani Slimes Joe Biden as “Mentally Deficient”
Rudy GiulianiAndrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Donald Trump goes low, Rudy Giuliani gleefully follows him. On Friday, the president’s lawyer continued to channel his boss’ playbook, lobbing crass personal insults at political opponents who’ve devoted their lives to public service. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Giuliani…
Protesters Blast Mike Pence for “Ripping Children From Their Families”
Natacha Pisarenko/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Outrage continues to rise around the country about the Trump administration’s forced separation of immigrant children from their parents. On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence was interrupted during a tax reform speech in Columbus, Ohio, by protesters who heckled him about the detention…
That Was Then, This Is Now
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday’s hotness: Separating migrant children from their parents isn’t a policy we chose. It was forced on us by laws passed by Democrats. Today’s hotness: We’re separating children because it gives us leverage. We’re going to keep doing it until Democrats give us money to…