The Case for Giving Pregnant Women More Drugs
Adam McCauley/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Pregnancy often comes with a lengthy list of physical discomforts, but Kate O’Brien’s were unusual: coughing, night sweats, extreme fatigue. After a series of misdiagnoses, a test finally came back positive. She had tuberculosis. O’Brien, who was 35 and living in New…
Quiz: Which Has Gone Up More, Dog Food or Cat Food?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today is a slo-o-o-o-o-w day. In addition, I experimented yesterday to see if I could force myself to stay awake all day, and I mostly did. However, there’s no fooling the evil dex: it just slammed me into a coma today instead. But like I…
Judge in Maria Butina Case Rips Prosecutors Who Claimed She Offered Sex to Get a Job
A courtroom sketch depicts Maria Butina, a 29-year-old gun rights activist suspected of being a covert Russian agent, during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, on July 18, 2018. Dana Verkouteren/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A judge rebuked federal prosecutors Monday for falsely alleging that…
Hurricane Florence Could Be the Most Powerful Storm to Hit the East Coast in 14 Years
Hurricane Florence as seen from the International Space Station on September 10.Ricky Arnold/NASA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hurricane Florence, expected to make landfall sometime Thursday, will bring dangerous winds and torrential rainfall to an area of the country that has already been drenched by historic amounts of rain this summer. On…
Gov. Jerry Brown Just Ensured All California’s Electricity Will Be Emissions-Free By 2045
Rich Pedroncelli/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law SB100—which aims to make the state’s electricity supply totally emissions-free by 2045. Brown also issued an executive order on Monday instructing California to achieve carbon neutrality (having a zero-carbon footprint) by the same year. The actions came…
This Ad Tells You Everything You Need to Know About the 2018 Elections
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats battling to regain control of Congress have put GOP efforts to gut Obamacare front and center in their campaigns. In ad after ad, Dems have hammered their opponents for voting to scrap protections for people with preexisting conditions and jack up premiums on older…