The Coal Industry Could Get a Boost if This Nominee Becomes a Top Industry Regulator
Mark Lyons/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In January, the independent regulatory body that oversees the national electrical grid unanimously rejected a proposal from the Energy Department to subsidize struggling coal and nuclear power plants. Now, thanks to the retirement this summer of one of the regulatory commissioners most opposed to…
Donald Trump Jr. Is Here to Rescue Ted Cruz
Win McNamee / Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two years ago, Ted Cruz stood up the president. On Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr. came to Wichita Falls, Texas, to tell Republican voters that all was forgiven. With a little more than a month to go before election day and control…
Feinstein Says FBI Investigation Is “Not Credible” Without Interviews of Ford and Kavanaugh
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking member Dianne Feinstein at last week’s hearing with Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh.Erin Schaff/Pool via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the FBI’s last-minute investigation into allegations of…
Why the White House Might Rush to Swear Kavanaugh In Before New Allegations Can Emerge
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas attends an event at the Library of Congress in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) succeeds with his plan to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court this week, Kavanaugh still won’t…
The Pentagon Just Released This Ridiculous Cartoon and the Internet Can’t Stop Laughing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Defense unveiled a snazzy website redesign today, capping off what chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana White called a “long overdue” change and a way to “more completely share our military’s story with the American people.” That strategy apparently included the production of a two-minute animated…
Chart of the Day: Health Care Premiums Hardly Increased at All This Year
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Kaiser Family Foundation announced today that large corporations now pay an average of nearly $20,000 per employee for family health premiums. In order to give you a better idea of what this means, here’s a chart showing how much that’s grown from last year:…