The Trump Administration Scrubbed Climate Science From an Important New Report
During 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm surge dislodged bricks on Liberty Island in New York, home of the Statue of Liberty.National Park Service Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. National Park Service officials have deleted every mention…
A Republican Congressman Met with Constituents, Pulled Out a Loaded Gun, and Then Said He Wouldn’t Be “a Gabby Giffords”
Chuck Burton/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. South Carolina Republican congressman Ralph Norman reportedly pulled out a loaded pistol on Friday at an event in his home district in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The episode happened at a scheduled “coffee with constituents” meeting about gun violence prevention. Norman laid the…
Teachers Have Been Getting Screwed in Oklahoma for Generations
Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 1990, when he was nine years old, Heath Miller protested alongside his parents at the Oklahoma Capitol building. His mother was a special education teacher in the state, and his father worked for the Oklahoma Education Association, the statewide teachers union. Thousands…
Trump Wants Tough New Car Rules — But Only On Foreign Cars
Ingo Wagner/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At the same time that Donald Trump is trying to undermine environmental standards for US cars, he wants to tighten them for imported cars: Mr. Trump has asked the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies, including the Commerce and Transportation…
Scott Pruitt Can Relax, He’s Probably Not Friday’s News Dump
Shealah Craighead/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has allies in high places who are not willing to give up on him after weeks of damaging stories. On Friday, President Trump took to Twitter to deny reports that he would replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Pruitt, and…
The Long, Twisted, and Bizarre History of the Trump-Russia Scandal
Carlo Allegri; Klimentyev Mikhail; Carlos Barria; Kevin Lamarque; Monterey Herald; Sergei Karpukhin; Jim Loscalzo (via ZUMA) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump-Russia scandal—with all its bizarre and troubling twists and turns—has become a controversy that is defining the Trump presidency. The FBI recently disclosed that since July it has…