The US Is Set to Execute Three People in a Single Day
The execution chamber in TexasPat Sullivan/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After its 1996 high, when 315 people were executed in the United States, the death penalty has been steadily on the decline. Just 23 people were executed last year in 8 states—the second fewest executions in the last 25 years. And while…
Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins Just Released Something Beautiful
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Album ReviewI’m With HerSee You AroundRounder There are plenty of reasons to love See You Around, the sparkling collaboration of veteran solo artists Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins. The acoustic musicianship is wonderfully virtuosic, yet nicely understated, with plenty of bracing fiddle and…
A Cave in China Is Filled with Exotic Plants that Shouldn’t Be There—But Researchers May Have Figured Out Why
Yangzi Cave, Guangxi, China. Monro et al. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From Plato to Polyphemus, caves have long been literary symbols of the mysterious and the unknown. And in the real world, they often live up…
Can These Stoneman Douglas High School Students Finally Break the Gun Control Deadlock?
ABC News Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Five students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, made their way through all the major morning talks shows Sunday, appearing on NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, and CNN. They announced nationwide marches for gun control next month and ripped politicians, including President…
No, the Latest Mueller Indictment Does Not Absolve Trump, Key Democrat Says
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee brushed off attacks by President Donald Trump on Sunday, and he mocked Trump for claiming that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s recent indictment of 13 Russians for meddling in the 2016 election somehow absolves Trump. “This is…
Pay No Attention to the Tweeter Behind the Curtain
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a weekend, and that means Donald Trump is bored. Here are this morning’s top stories in the Washington Post: I wish the Post and other newspapers would take the advice of these “top U.S. officials.” I don’t mind that they report on Trump’s tweets.…