Trump’s Lawyer Is Spending Memorial Day Weekend Raving About How the Mueller Investigation Is Rigged
Peter Foley/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former New York City Mayor and current Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani isn’t taking any time off from his quest to defend his client before any and every cable news audience that will listen. On CNN on Sunday, he told correspondent Dana Bash that…
Trump Tweets About “Young and Beautiful Lives” Destroyed by Russia Investigation
AP Photo/Mike Stewart Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While outrage spreads about reports of immigrant children who the government placed with traffickers and then lost by the hundreds, Donald Trump is spending his Sunday morning decrying the treatment of another group of young people: those whose lives have been “devastated…
Enjoy Those Avocados, Pistachios and Oranges While You Can, Because They Are Going Away
Grist/Armin Staudt/EyeEm/Fridholm, Jakob/Douglas Sacha/Getty Images 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. Chris Sayer pushed his way through avocado branches and grasped a denuded limb. It was stained black, as if someone had ladled tar over its bark. In…
You May Have Noticed That Gas Is More Expensive This Holiday Weekend
Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The nearly 40 million drivers who will hit the road this Memorial Day weekend will be paying the highest gas prices since 2014 according to the American Automobile Association. As of April 2018, drivers were paying an average of $2.72 per…
Scott Pruitt Tried to Give Men “Property Rights” Over Fetuses
This story was originally published by The HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1999, Scott Pruitt, then an Oklahoma state senator, introduced a bill to grant men “property rights” over unborn fetuses, requiring women to obtain the would-be father’s permission before aborting a pregnancy. Pruitt, now the embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection…
A Mormon Missionary Held in a Venezuelan Prison Is Coming Home
A screengrab from Josh Holt’s Facebook page.Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning on Twitter that Josh Holt, a Utah missionary who has been held in a Venezuelan prison since 2016, was headed back to the US. Good news about the release of the American…