You Won’t Believe What Ted Nugent Just Said About the Parkland Survivors
Ted Nugent grabs his crotch at a campaign rally for Donald Trump on Nov. 6, 2016. Paul Sancya/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ted Nugent, the classic rocker and National Rifle Association board member who has called President Barack Obama a “subhuman mongrel” and Hillary Clinton a “worthless bitch,” is…
Raw Data: Cigarette Smoking Among Adults
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As Advertisers Bail, Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Announces “Vacation”
Laura Ingraham of Fox News speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland on February 23, 2018.Ron Sachs/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host of The Ingraham Angle, announced late Friday that she is going on vacation for a week as advertisers continue…
Donald Trump Is Live-Tweeting Fox News Again
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Straight from the TV to the president’s favorite form of official communications to his constituents: While we are on the subject, it is reported that the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon. That amounts…
How 5 Large Mega-Gyres Helped Create a “Galaxy of Garbage” in the Pacific
Susan White/US Fish and Wildlife Service Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. What’s 1.6 million square kilometers, weighs 80,000 metric tons, and is three times the size of continental France? That would be the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—the…
The Edibles Market Is Exploding. You Can Bet Big Corporations Are Watching.
Edibles on display at a California marijuana dispensary Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In America, pot is what’s hot. So far, nine states—California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, Alaska, Vermont—and Washington D.C. have legalized recreational, adult-use weed. Meanwhile, venture capitalists are pumping the industry with cash; college students…