Scott Pruitt Is Doing Just Fine as a Coal Consultant
Tom Williams, CQ/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Where’s Scott Pruitt now?” is a question I’ve gotten a lot in the six months since the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator resigned under a mountain of investigations into possible ethics violations. If you know anything about Pruitt, the answer will not come as…
Exploding Ants, Rainbow Slugs, and Tiny Seahorses: 11 New Species Discovered This Year
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Considering there are nearly eight billion people on Earth, and that more and more species are being pushed into extinction by climate change, habitat destruction, and pollution, it may seem like there would be few species left for humans to discover. In fact, there could be up to a…
During Shutdown, Trump Signs Order Canceling Next Year’s Raise for Federal Workers
Chris Kleponis/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the seventh day of the partial shutdown of the federal government, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will make life even harder for federal workers. On Friday, Trump issued a new rule that freezes a planned 2.1 percent raise for…
North Carolina’s Unsettled Congressional Race Is an Absolute Mess
Republican candidate Mark Harris answers questions at a news conference ON Nov. 7, 2018.David T. Foster Iii/Charlotte Observer/TNS/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On January 3, 40 freshman Democrats will be sworn in, officially flipping the House from red to blue. But the seat the 9th Congressional District in North…
Trump Takes No Responsibility For Two Migrant Children Who Died in Border Patrol Custody
Niall Carson/PA Wire/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two children, aged 7 and 8-years-old, died this month while in Border Patrol custody. On Saturday, President Donald Trump offered his first response to the deaths, but rather than offering condolences he lashed out and blamed Democrats for not funding his wall,…
Trump Complains Democrats Are Causing the Shutdown. Americans Don’t See It That Way.
Martin H. Simon/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More Americans fault President Donald Trump for the federal government shutdown than Democrats in Congress, according to a poll by Reuters/Ipsos released this week. But that isn’t stopping the president from going on a Twitter rant, with Trump grumbling on Saturday morning that Democrats “are…