“Holy Shit. This is Dangerous:” Nixon, a Soviet Bomb Test, and a Top-Secret Climate Study
dzika_mrowka/iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On March 23, 1971, the Soviet Union set off three Hiroshima-scale nuclear blasts deep underground in a remote region some 1,000 miles east of Moscow, ripping a massive crater in the…
“Misleading and Unsupported By the Facts”: House Intelligence Democrats Slam GOP Russia Report
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, speaks with reporters the Russia investigation in July of last year. Alex Edelman via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Democrats on the House intelligence committee released a fiery, 98-page rejoinder to the report on…
House Intelligence Committee Republicans Just Released Their Russia Report
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), chair of the House’s intelligence committee. Bill Clark/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released a 253-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, concluding that there was no evidence of collusion by the Trump campaign. The president was quick…
Trump Announces He’s Considering Interfering With Justice Department Investigations
President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House during the French state visit on Tuesday.Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump suggested during an interview on Fox & Friends Thursday that he might become involved in the work of in his…
A Bipartisan Group of Senators Just Scored a Big Win in the Fight to Protect Robert Mueller
Zhang Jun/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, four Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee to take a major step towards formally protecting Mueller from an ouster by the president: They voted to approve legislation that would take the power to fire Robert Mueller, the…
How a Mysterious Overseas Shell Company Used a Former GOP Congressman to Lobby Trump and Congress
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last year, Howard “Buck” McKeon, a former Republican congressman who chaired the House Armed Services Committee, was hired to lobby for an Albanian political party seeking access to the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. But most of his firm’s work was bankrolled…