This is Why Democrats Are Letting a Senator From Coal Country Oversee the Energy Industry
Ernesto Hernandez Fonte/US Navy via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a strange twist of fate, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who once fired a shotgun at a climate bill, is expecting to be promoted to a leadership position in a key Senate committee that conducts environmental oversight. Progressive environmental groups have pressured Minority…
A New Lawsuit Blames the Trump Administration for Ruining Oysters
Larry Zhou/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2007, the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Tillamook, Oregon lost 75 percent of its oyster larvae. The oyster farmers initially thought it was disease, but that didn’t explain the monumental loss. With help from scientists, they finally pieced together the culprit: The…
Black Republican Senator Thinks Republicans Should Stop Nominating Racists
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tim Scott, the only African-American Republican member of the Senate, took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal today to defend his decision to oppose the nomination of Judge Thomas Farr to a federal district court: The solution isn’t…
A Haitian Asylum-Seeker Did Everything Right. ICE Sent Him to a Windowless Jail Cell.
Melody Hart speaks to Ansly Damus via webcam at the Geauga County Safety Center.Courtesy of Gary Benjamin and Melody Hart Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Somewhere in an Ohio jail, Ansly Damus was listening to Melody Hart and Gary Benjamin. It was late October, and they were telling Damus that…
Rex Tillerson Breaks His Silence: Trump Is Impulsive, Hates Reading, and Floated Illegal Plans
Ting Shen/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday evening, Rex Tillerson, the former secretary of state and Exxon Mobil CEO, sat down for an interview with CBS’s Bob Schieffer in Houston. It was Tillerson’s first public appearance since being fired by Donald Trump in March after months of tension,…
The Senate GOP Just Confirmed a Trump Aide with No Relevant Experience to Lead America’s Financial Industry Watchdog
Ron Sachs/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, the Senate confirmed Kathy Kraninger, a White House budget official with no consumer finance experience, as the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the watchdog agency created in the wake of the financial crisis to regulate certain financial institutions.…