How Is Caravan Hysteria Doing?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a quiet morning, so I thought I’d check in on how hysteria about the migrant caravan from Honduras is doing: No one seems to care much anymore even though the caravan is closer to the border than ever. Fascinating, no? But wait! There was…
Trump Campaign Paid Millions to Trump Businesses During Midterms
Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign raised and spent an unprecedented sum of money during the midterm elections. But much of that cash wasn’t used to help endangered Republicans in Congress—it was used to help Donald Trump. Presidential campaigns don’t typically raise much—or any—money…
“I Don’t Have to Stop Being an Activist”
Rashida Tlaib speaks at a Muslim Get Out the Vote rally in Dearborn, Michigan, on July 29, 2018.Jim West/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rashida Tlaib was nearly breathless. It was 1:30 on Tuesday afternoon, and the newly elected congresswoman told me that she’d been racing from one meeting to the…
One of Trump’s Top EPA Officials Was Just Indicted on State Ethics Charges
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A senior Environmental Protection Agency administrator responsible for nine southeastern states has been indicted by an Alabama grand jury on charges he conspired to violate ethics laws, reportedly in connection with a messy bribery scandal that has links to former Attorney General Jeff…
This Is What Florida’s Election Recount Actually Looks Like
Employees of the Broward County Supervisor of Election count ballots on November 8.Carline Jean/Sun Sentinel/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With Florida’s Senate and governor’s races on the line, all eyes are on the recount underway in Broward County, which has sparked a fierce clash of lawsuits and…
Magnus Carlsen Is Not Saving Chess
Miami-born challenger Fabiano Caruana during a press conference after the first round of the World Chess Championship in London.Fredrik Varfjell/Bildbyran via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The World Chess Championship is currently being played in London, pitting Magnus Carlsen, the three-time defending champion from Norway, against Fabiano Caruana, the…