Scott Pruitt Just Testified Before Congress. It Didn’t Go Well.
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Given an opportunity to address the scandals that have dominated his 16 months at the head of at the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt admitted Wednesday, “I would not make the same decisions again.” It was the only time in the…
The FBI and Justice Department Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica
Alex Milan Tracy/SIPA USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The FBI and Department of Justice have opened an investigation into Cambridge Analytica, the pro-Trump data company that surreptitiously obtained Facebook data from tens of millions of Americans. Cambridge announced earlier this month that it was shutting down after…
He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steffanie Strathdee hunched over her laptop, fretting. She barely noticed the kittens asleep next to her or the serene Buddha figure across the living room, anchored next to the glass doors that looked toward the gleaming Pacific. Her mind was 20 miles away in the…
If House Republicans Get Their Way, Rural Americans Are Screwed
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 2016, the Republican Party won the presidency and both chambers of Congress with strong support in rural areas, particularly among farmers. But since that triumph, the Grand Old Party hasn’t exactly been a champion of rural interests. As I’ve written in recent months,…
Facebook Sure Has a Lot of Fake Accounts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Wait. What? Facebook revealed Tuesday that it removed more than half a billion fake accounts and millions of pieces of violent or obscene content during the first three months of 2018. Half a billion? Yes. 583 million, to be exact. And they removed about the…
Raw Data: Religion in America
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