And Now for Some Good News From the Animal Kingdom
A tiger in Chitwan National Park, Nepal.davidevison/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a garbage fire of a weekend, except for one happy tidbit from Nepal: The country’s tiger population has nearly doubled since 2009. The Nepalese government’s most recent tiger census found that 235 of the majestic…
Susan Collins Finds the “One Silver Lining” of the Kavanaugh Debacle
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After casting one of two decisive votes to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment on the nation’s highest court, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on Sunday that she hopes more women will now be inspired to press sexual assault charges against…
Kellyanne Conway Just Claimed the Media Wants “Every Woman to Be a Victim”
Patsy Lynch/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway claimed this morning “many people,” including journalists and senators, “want” women to be victims of sexual violence. “They want every woman to be a victim, every woman to lock arms with every other woman; every man is a perpetrator,” she…
A Republican Stuck a New Nickname on Florida’s Black Gubernatorial Candidate And It Didn’t Go Well
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew GillumWilfredo Lee/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A conservative congressman is under fire after rolling out a new nickname for the Democratic candidate in Florida’s governor’s race. At a rally on Saturday for Republican Ron DeSantis, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) criticized crime rates in Tallahassee, where Democratic…
This Pro-Kavanaugh Ad Says Moms Should Be Afraid of #MeToo Coming for Their Sons
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days before the Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a new “Moms for Kavanaugh” video warned that the allegations of sexual assault against him foreshadowed a dangerous new era—for men and boys. “We are mothers,” the ad…
Susan Collins Says She Believes Blasey Ford Was Assaulted—But Not by Kavanaugh
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)Alex Edelman/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Appearing on CNN this morning Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said that she believes that Christine Blasey Ford was sexually assaulted—just not by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. “I do not believe that Brett Kavanaugh was her assailant. I do believe…