Top Republican Lawyer: No One’s Asking to Be on Trump’s Legal Team
Brian Cahn/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Sunday, President Donald Trump reacted to news reports that he was having trouble recruiting lawyers for his legal team. “Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case…don’t believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard…
Meet a 63-Year-Old, 7,800-Acre, Living Laboratory
When he’s not picking up antlers, you might find Halm clearing away a fallen tree, plowing snow away from the roads, or helping set up and maintain the various data collectors, remote cameras, and wireless equipment the scientists depend upon. “When I started it was all pretty manual, with strip charts and charts on drums,”…
Lucy Dacus’ New Album Is Pleasantly Melodic, but It Ain’t Easy Listening
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Lucy Dacus Historian Matador Lucy Dacus has a pretty, reassuring voice and crafts pleasant folk-pop melodies, which suggests Historian should be easy listening. Not so. The Virginia native’s compelling second album is a startling set of unsparing vignettes exploring damaged or dying relationships, laced with…
The Real Story Behind the Rise and Fall of Cambridge Analytica
Doug Chayka Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. We all know by now that Cambridge Analytica managed to amass 50 million Facebook records for use in Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. What we don’t know is whether those records actually did Trump any good. Alexander Nix, the CEO of the company, naturally…
The Trump Administration Might Let the World’s Rarest Marine Mammal Go Extinct
Omar Vidal/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, environmental groups took the Trump administration to task for failing to protect the vaquita porpoise, the world’s rarest (and perhaps cutest) marine mammal, from likely extinction. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, accuses the Trump team of violating federal laws designed to protect the vaquita and other marine mammals. The species has seen…
The Six Biggest Moments From Stormy Daniels’ Interview
Stormy Daniels at the Grammy Awards in 2007.Matt Sayles/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Adult film star Stormy Daniels appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday night in her first televised interview about her alleged affair with President Donald Trump. Daniels claims she slept with Trump once in 2006 while Trump was…