The Trump Administration Just Announced More Sanctions Against Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during the APEC Summit in 2017.Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the wake of last week’s suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday that the United…
Donald Trump Really Wants You to Know How Well He’s Doing in One Specific Poll
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump isn’t a very popular president. According to the FiveThirtyEight polling average, his approval rating is currently around 41 percent. That’s about 7 points below where Barack Obama was at this stage of his presidency. But Trump isn’t interested in polling averages.…
Trump Threatens Comey With Jail Time in Unhinged Tirade
Olivier Douliery/Abaca (Sipa via AP) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump spent Sunday morning railing against former FBI Director James Comey, whose highly anticipated book will be released Tuesday. In a series of unhinged tweets, the president described Comey, whom he fired last year, as “not smart”; the…
Earth’s Powerful, Climate-Shaping Water Currents Are Weak and Broken and It’s Time to Freak Out
piola666/iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The warm Atlantic current linked to severe and abrupt changes in the climate in the past is now at its weakest in at least 1,600 years, new research shows. The…
Michael Cohen, Once the President’s Trusted Fixer, Emerges as His Greatest Liability
Michael Cohen in Manhattan on April 14.Wes Bruer/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michael Cohen, an attorney long known as President Donald Trump’s fixer, has become Trump’s biggest headache. Cohen finds himself at the intersection of two related lines of investigation, one into the Trump campaign’s suspected coordination with…
The Second “March for Science” Is Happening Today
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The second “March for Science” is happening across the globe on Saturday. Last year’s edition drew out some 1.1 million scientists, students, and other supporters of evidence-based policy making. Organizers are expecting a much smaller turnout today, but events in support of the march are…