Five Times Brett Kavanaugh Appears to Have Lied to Congress While Under Oath
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearings. Erin Scott/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has made declarations under oath during his current and past confirmation hearings that are contradicted by documents from his time as a counsel…
New Documents Show the Trump Administration Cut Climate Change Impacts from its Energy Plan
Aaron Lavinsky/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thus far, the Trump administration has seemed to make it a point to ignore the very real threat of global warming in its policy and unabashedly censor climate science on government websites, reports, and speeches. It should come as a shock to no one, then, that the administration’s recent rollback…
The Winners and Losers of Trump’s Tariff Bailout
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. About a month ago, the Trump administration announced its plans to spend up to $12 billion to help offset losses incurred by farmers as the president pursues a trade war against China and other major buyers of US agriculture goods. In a press call Monday,…
Why a New Fisheries Bill Is Being Dubbed the “Empty Oceans Act”
People fish for steelhead in the Grand Ronde River.ed Conklin/ZUMApress.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network. What the farm bill is to terrestrial food production, the fish bill, a.k.a. the Magnuson-Stevens Act, is to the ocean—the law that governs America’s…
The Shadow Rulers of the VA
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter before signing an executive order at the Department of Veterans Affairs.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last February, shortly after Peter O’Rourke became chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs, he received…
An Army of Deer Ticks Carrying Lyme Disease Is Advancing and Here’s Why It Will Only Get Worse
Mother Jones illustration; nechaev-kon/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Maine’s invasion came early this year. In recent hotbeds of tick activity—from Scarborough to Belfast and Brewer—people say they spotted the eight-legged arachnid before…