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…
Trump Began His Morning By Attacking a Times Reporter on Twitter
Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While several former presidents were en route to attend the funeral service of former first lady Barbara Bush on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump was tweeting insults at reporters and heading to the golf course. Trump took to Twitter to bash the…
Democrats Are Asking Two Sandy Hook Parents to Run for Congress. It’s Not an Easy Decision.
Nicole Hockley, speaking, and Mark Barden, right, with Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Rep. Elizabeth Esty at a news conference in December 2014Pat Eaton-Robb/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden are best friends. Both lost young sons on one of the most violent…
More Guns Won’t Make Us Safer. Here’s What Might.
siiixth/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Guns. In a country with more than 300 million of them, a country that’s recently been swept up in a round of protests over the endless killing sprees they permit, you’d think I might have had more…
Internal Emails Show How EPA Officials Lobby For Their Former Employers
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.Chris Kleponis/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to implement a controversial policy that would drastically limit the scientific research that the agency uses to write environmental rules. While environmental activists are concerned the change could undermine EPA rules on air pollution and…
Married Immigrants Seeking Green Cards Are Now Targets for Deportation
Immigrants become US citizens at a USCIS ceremony in Phoenix.Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fabiano de Oliveira had a clear path to staying in the United States: His wife was a US citizen, and he had a five-year-old son and no criminal history. He had been ordered deported…