Spending Bill Held Up at Last Minute by Dueling Jackasses
Castle Peak in the White Clouds Wilderness preserve. Despite Sen. James Risch’s best efforts at petty revenge against a dead man, it will probably be renamed the Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds Wilderness preserve in the near future because the House is unlikely to even take up Risch’s bill to rescind the renaming.Eric Zamora/VW Pics via…
Don’t Call It Pot: My Dinner With San Francisco’s Cannabis Gourmets
Chron Vivant Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. San Francisco’s first ever Thursday Infused, a “gourmet series for the canna-curious,” begins at 6:30pm one evening in March. I’m greeted at the door of a handsome purple Victorian house by Jamie Evans, a willowy blonde in a yellow silk dress who organizes…
Charts of the Day: Here’s Why Republicans Are Terrified About the 2018 Midterms
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a couple of fun charts to finish off the evening. They’re from Geoffrey Skelley of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, and they show how many members of Congress have retired in previous midterm election cycles. First up is total retirements over time, starting at 600 days…
DNC Hacker Was a Russian Military Spy
Danil Shamkin/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Spencer Ackerman and Kevin Poulsen have some interesting news: Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily…
This Is the Scariest News of the Trump Presidency
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump announced Thursday night that he is replacing National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster with former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton—a step that puts a man famous for advocating preemptive wars in a position to help start one. Following…
Trump’s War Cabinet Is Taking Shape
Justin Lane/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days ago the White House said that H.R. McMaster still had the president’s full confidence. That’s a death sentence, of course, and today the axe fell. He’s out and John Bolton is in: General McMaster will retire from the…