Tulsi Gabbard Is Running for President. Can She Shake Her Ties to Dictators and Nationalists?
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) at a news conference in Washington on May 17, 2018. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) will run for president, she announced Friday, entering a soon-to-be-crowded field of Democrats hoping to unseat Donald Trump. But Gabbard will stand…
The Shutdown Has Halted Important Scientific Research
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Southern Utah, there is a patch of desert heated by infrared lamps. The lamps hang just above the plants and soil crusts commonly found in this desert surrounding Moab.…
California’s Camp Fire Was the World’s Costliest Natural Disaster in 2018
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Camp fire, which killed 86 people and burned the Northern California town of Paradise to the ground in November, was last year’s most expensive natural disaster worldwide, according to a report from German-based global reinsurance company Munich Re. The fire, which…
The Mystery of the Figaro Is Solved!
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back when Marian and I were vacationing in Britain, I saw a surprising number of these cars: It’s a Figaro, which looks like one of those cute postwar British cars that were manufactured in the gazillions—but obviously isn’t. For one thing, it’s made by Nissan.…
Training Your Tongue to Love Spicy Food Benefits More Than Your Taste Buds
Tourists eat chilies in a hot spring during a contest in Yichun City, east China’s Jiangxi province, in December 2018.Imaginechina/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The tongue-searing, eye-watering heat caused by eating chili peppers comes from a substance called capsaicin. Stuart Walton became very familiar with the stuff while…
The GoFundMe Campaign to Build Trump’s Wall Crashes and Burns
Donald Trump inspects border wall prototypes last year in San Diego, California.Mandel Ngan/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “We The People Will Build the Wall,” the effort to crowdfund President Donald Trump’s border wall, has run into a barrier. Brian Kolfage, an Iraq War veteran with a history of peddling…