North Carolina Towns Still Recovering From Hurricane Matthew Now Have to Deal With Florence
“You’ve got to live somewhere,” she said. Matthew Peterson, on the other hand, wasn’t taking any chances this time around. He and his family barely managed to escape Lumberton in 2016 after they awoke to find flood water creeping up toward their doors. He fled town with more than a dozen people piled in his…
Tons of Promises Were Made at Jerry Brown’s Climate Summit, But Only One Requires Rockets
California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks as Michael Bloomberg, left, listens during a news conference at the Global Action Climate Summit Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018.Eric Risberg/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California’s Governor Jerry Brown, once nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam,” announced on Friday that the state was launching its own satellite, a…
Mississippi Senate Candidate to African Americans: Stop “Begging for Federal Government Scraps”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a live TV appearance on Friday, Mississippi Republican Senate candidate Chris McDaniel said the state’s African Americans should stop “begging for federal government scraps.” McDaniel made the remarks during a live recording of MSNBC’s Morning Joe at Ole Miss. Interview panelist Eddie Glaude Jr., a Mississippi native and chairman of African…
Concession by the Trump Administration Caps Off a Big Legal Victory for Separated Families
Natalia Oliveira da Silva and her daughter, Sara, 5, hug at a Catholic Charities facility in Texas in July after being separated by the Trump administration. Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In February, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration to reunite a family separated at…
Almost Live From New York: The Robots Are Coming to Take Your Jobs Away!
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The perceptive among you have already recognized the subtle hints that I am no longer in Irvine. I’m in New York, and at the moment I feel like I’ve spent a day walking through soup. But I’m sure a quick shower will make me feel…
The Key to Saving the Planet Could Be This Middle-School Math Concept
VCG via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A scientist and a diplomat walked into the Global Climate Action Summit on Thursday and unveiled a roadmap for keeping the world at a low simmer. Things look…