Don’t Let One Missing Journalist Get In the Way of $110 Billion in Saudi Arms Sales, Trump Says
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump on Thursday rejected calls to halt $110 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite mounting reports indicating the kingdom played a direct role in the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi critic, went missing…
Maybe Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz Will Finally Talk About Climate Change
Matt Gaetz and Donald TrumpTom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hurricane Michael has torn through the Florida Panhandle with 155 miles per hour winds, leaving hundreds of thousands of people to deal with the wreckage of their flooded homes, towns, and beaches. With storm surges as…
California’s Bullet Train Is Now Officially Insane
Artist’s rendering of the Fresno HSR station. The boomtown of a revitalized Fresno is in the background.California High Speed Rail Authority Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I read something alarming today on the front page of the LA Times: If Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is elected governor as expected, he’ll…
A Look at the Record: Republicans Repeatedly Voted to Kill Protections for Pre-Existing Conditions
Demonstrators gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Saturday June 24, 2017 to protest a proposed Senate healthcare bill.Jeff Malet/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I would like to reacquaint you with the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of Trumpcare, aka the American Health Care Act of 2017. This is what they…
Capital Punishment Has Officially Ended in Washington State
The death chamber at Washington State Penitentiary Ted S. Warren/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Washington state just abolished capital punishment. On Thursday morning, the state’s Supreme Court ruled that the state’s death penalty is unconstitutional because it’s racially biased and arbitrary applied. “[T]he use of the death penalty is…
Donald Trump Has a Serious Saudi Arabian Conflict of Interest
President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office in March.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The grisly details of an alleged Saudi government plot to murder dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi are roiling diplomatic and national security circles, but the Trump White House’s…