Meet the Press Devotes Entire Show to Threat of Climate Change
Firefighters watch as the 18,137 acre Holy Fire burns around them for the fourth day in Lake Elsinore, California in the early morning on August 10, 2018. Christian Monterrosa/Sipa USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a remarkable and unique hour of television, NBC News host Chuck Todd…
John Kelly Doesn’t Want to Talk About All the Things He Helped Trump Do
Then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly attends a meeting between President Donald J. Trump and US House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi and US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on December 11, 2018. Michael Reynolds/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The government has been partially shut down since December 21 because…
Top US General Calls Trump Immoral and Dishonest
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal speaks at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., March 11, 2013. Steven Senne/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, called President Donald Trump immoral and…
Here Are All the Ways Trump Tried to Shut Down Science This Year
Asiseeit/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There were a dizzying series of attacks on science in 2018. President Trump seemingly went out of his way to publicly question and misrepresent accepted science, using his signature all-caps tweeting to make his point: Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS –…
In Natural Disasters, a Disability Can Be a Death Sentence
And for many disabled people, getting out of their homes is only the beginning. Shelters often lack necessary equipment and medications for disabled people who do evacuate, like hearing aids, walkers, wheelchairs or ventilators, Ramirez said. The prospect of rebuilding a home that had been built around an individual disability can also be daunting and…
Puerto Rico May Hold the Answer to Saving the Bees
Manuel Giannoni Guzman Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The quick succession of Hurricanes Irma and Maria knocked out Puerto Rico’s electricity and displaced thousands of people from their homes. The storms also wreaked havoc on much smaller members of the island’s population: Billions of wild and domesticated bees were uprooted…