Trump Won’t Be Sentenced Until After the Election
Trump at a news conference on September 6, 2024.Stefan Jeremiah/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial ruled on Friday that he won’t sentence the former president until November 26. Juan Merchan, who Trump has relentlessly…
A New Reckoning for Parents of School Shooters
Colin Gray, 54, the father of Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, 14, enters the Barrow County courthouse for his first appearance, on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024.Brynn Anderson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the aftermath of the bloodshed on Wednesday at Apalachee…
Tenet Media Shutters After Being Accused of Taking $10 Million in Covert Kremlin Funding
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A contributor for Tenet Media announced on Twitter Thursday night that the company has abruptly shuttered, one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment that accused it of being covertly funded by employees of…
How Last Year’s Wildfires Reignited a Battle Over Water Rights on Maui
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Native Hawaiians have always understood the value of water. In the Hawaiian language, the word for fresh water is “wai”—and the word for wealth is “waiwai.” An essential asset, water was a resource Hawaiians shared, and they made…
The Feds Charged a Pro-Russian Pundit for Evading Sanctions. He Says They’re Trying to Silence Him.
Dimitri Simes at a news conference near Moscow in 2023.Vadim Savitsky/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Justice Department on Thursday charged Dimitri Simes, pro-Russian pundit and and former head of a Washington think tank, along with his wife, Anastasia Simes, with violating…
GOP Senate Candidate in Nevada Can’t Stop Shifting His Position on Abortion
Mother Jones; Leon Neal/Getty; Ty O’Neil/SOPA/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In June, Sam Brown, the GOP candidate for US Senate in Nevada and longtime abortion opponent, published an op-ed that said that if he were elected and a national abortion ban came…