The Global Crisis of Plastic Pollution
Dan Clark/Planet Pix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A young sperm whale, the largest toothed predator on Earth and an endangered species, washed up on the beach in southeastern Spain in February. Wanting to know…
Scott Pruitt May Have Violated Oklahoma Ethics Rules as a State Senator
Scott PruittCarolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt used a shell company in 2003 to buy a home in Oklahoma from a retiring lobbyist, according to an investigation by the New York Times. At the time, Pruitt was a state senator in Oklahoma. The shell…
Trump Is Considering Another Presidential Pardon
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump on Saturday announced on Twitter that he is considering granting a posthumous pardon to the late boxing legend Jack Johnson after speaking with actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone. Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack…
Raw Data: The Price of Housing in America
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Donald Trump Is Mad at Maggie Haberman
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump is unhappy with today’s New York Times piece about how he treats Michael Cohen “like garbage,” which might cause Cohen to flip: The New York Times and a third rate reporter named Maggie Haberman, known as a Crooked H flunkie who I don’t…
California Bullet Train Suffers From a “Number of Miscalculations”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The LA Times reports today about a minor little cost overrun on the California bullet train. Over the course of five years, the cost of utility relocations along a short section of track near Fresno increased nearly 6x, from $69 million to $396 million: The…