A Few Miscellaneous Charts About Development Aid
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a random selection of charts from a report on aid to developing countries that I ran across via Twitter yesterday. It comes from AidData, a research lab at William & Mary. This isn’t a broad summary, just a few interesting factlets I pulled out.…
California Bans State-Funded Travel to Oklahoma in Response to LGBT Adoption Law
lazyllama/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Friday that California will ban state-funded travel to Oklahoma because of a new law that allows private agencies to refuse to place children with same-sex couples. Starting June 22, Oklahoma will become the ninth state where California…
Justin Trudeau Just Slammed “Insulting and Unacceptable” Trump Trade Behavior
Matt Dunham/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called President Trump’s trade tariffs on aluminium and steel “insulting and unacceptable” in a new video posted on Saturday by NBC’s Meet the Press on Twitter. Canada, Mexico and the European Union had previously been exempt…
NYT: Scott Pruitt Paid Coal Billionaire Cash for Courtside Basketball Seats
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. First-class flights totaling more than $105,000, a $43,000 secure phone booth, a $50-a-night condo linked to lobbyists, $1,560 on a dozen customized fountain pens, and now a pair of $130 basketball tickets purchased in cash from a billionaire coal executive. The list of controversial purchases by Environmental…
The World’s Richest Countries Beg Trudeau to Try and Control Trump
Bernd Von Jutrczenka/DPA/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by National Observer and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With less than two weeks to go before Canada hosts the world’s seven big economies, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is being urged to push the United States…
A Democrat in Farm Country Hopes to Beat One of Congress’ Biggest Racists
Democratic candidate J.D. Scholten meets with the public in the Milwaukee Train Depot in Jefferson, Iowa in the week before the June 5th primary. Scholten is running in Iowa’s 4th congressional district for the Democratic nomination to run against the Republican incumbent, Steve King in November.Dennis Chamberlin/FERN Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our…