Federal Judge Dismisses Trivial Lawsuit
US District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last year, a couple of Democratic donors and a former mid-level staffer for the DNC filed a longshot suit against Roger Stone and the Trump campaign. They alleged that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia to hack…
Human Power Computers Are Not Too Far Over the Horizon
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brad DeLong posts a Wikipedia page today showing the cost of computing power over time. I adjusted it to show the cost of about 30 petaflops of computing power, which is roughly the consensus estimate of the power of the human brain. Here it is:…
A Judge Just Rejected the Trump Administration’s Request to Keep Some Families Separated
Buena Ventura Martin-Godinez, right, stands with her daughter Janne after being reunited at Miami International Airport on Sunday.Lynne Sladky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s argument that it shouldn’t have to reunite children with parents who have been deported. During a court hearing…
A Top Gun Control Group Just Endorsed a Republican Gun Rights Defender
The March for Our Lives gun control rally in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2018Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick received a coveted endorsement that no other Republican has obtained this election cycle. Fitzpatrick, the GOP incumbent in Pennsylvania’s highly competitive 1st Congressional…
Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in June
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American economy gained 213,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at 123,000 jobs. The headline unemployment rate rose to 4.0 percent, largely because a whopping 600 thousand…
This Meteorologist Explains Why the Extreme Heat Is Way Worse Than You Think
National Weather Service Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The past seven days have set global heat milestones and sparked safety concerns from Quebec, where at least 34 people have died in the province from the heat and humidity, to northern Siberia, home to the coldest town on Earth, which recorded…