Police Are Increasingly Taking Advantage of Home DNA Tests. There Aren’t Any Regulations to Stop It.
A criminalist prepares DNA samples for analysis in a crime lab.Matt York/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. CeCe Moore knew that she could find serial killers. But she wasn’t sure that she should. By the time authorities in Sacramento, California, announced an arrest in the Golden State Killer case in…
Election Watchdog Hits Jeb Bush’s Super-PAC With Massive Fine for Taking Money From Foreign Nationals
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Federal Election Commission has hit Right to Rise USA, the super-PAC that backed Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid, with a record fine for accepting a seven-figure donation from a company owned by Chinese nationals who were in business with Bush’s brother, Neil,…
Devin Nunes Tweeted About Straws and a Lot of People Decided His Take…Sucked
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., listens during the House Intelligence Committee hearing in July, 2018. Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls debate the merits of socialism versus capitalism, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) warned Saturday night that socialism has already taken over…
Five Things a Democratic President Could Do By Declaring a National Emergency Over Climate Change
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over and over, President Donald Trump has done things no sitting president would dare do. In February, the country again entered new terrain when he declared a national emergency, effectively unlocking billions of dollars in emergency funding for his border wall.…
Watch Trump’s Financial Industry Watchdog Get Grilled by Congress’ Newest Members
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When news broke in January that a slew of Democratic House freshmen who have largely forsworn corporate PAC donations had snagged seats on the powerful House Financial Services Committee, Wall Street was not pleased. A Thursday hearing hosted by the committee…
The Government’s Failure to Block the Time Warner-AT&T Merger Could Lead to Even Bigger Monopolies
Igor Golovniov/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Justice lost its appeal of the politically charged AT&T-Time Warner merger last week, potentially putting some brakes on a burgeoning anti-monopoly movement and putting pressure on Congress to act instead. The case marked the first time in more than…