I Asked a Bunch of Scientists if Climate Change Was Affecting the Bacteria in My Gut
Grist/Amelia Bates 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. Those of us who believe in climate change (and maybe some who don’t) jokingly blame all kinds of things on it, from flat tires to summer hailstorms. Case of the…
How Long Does It Take To Figure Out If a Ten-Dollar Bill Is Real?
Emory Ellis, who was apparently suspected of trying to pass the world’s most perfect counterfeit ten-dollar bill.Steven Senne/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days ago, we reported on the story of Emory Ellis, a homeless man who was arrested for trying to pass a counterfeit bill: According to…
Missouri Might Impeach Its Governor Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
J.B. Forbes/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A St. Louis prosecutor dropped a felony invasion-of-privacy charge against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens earlier this week. But the governor’s troubles are far from over. As the Missouri legislative season came to a close last night in Jefferson City, representatives in the GOP-controlled legislature convened…
Two Things Can Be True at Once: Class Warfare Edition
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Matt Yglesias quotes Cory Booker: “I am so frustrated with the obvious changes going on between my dad’s age and now,” said Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) delivering a stem-winder of a midday keynote address Tuesday at the Ideas Conference, hosted in Washington by the Center…
In Huge Disappointment, the FBI’s Super-Secret Trump Informant Turns Out to Be . . . Stefan Halper
Top secret spy Stefan Halper in 2010 promoting his latest book on CSPAN. In the acknowledgements, he thanks Henry Kissinger and the former head of MI6—both of whom blurbed the book—and an all-star cast of other world-class military and intelligence officials. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Devin Nunes has been…
Report Suggests Blackwater Founder Erik Prince May Have Lied to Congress
Blackwater founder Erik Prince before his House Intelligence Committee testimony, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Blackwater founder Erik Prince appears to have a problem. The New York Times reported Saturday that Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, arranged and attended an August 3, 2016…