Cash Bonuses and Waived Drug Tests Couldn’t Help the Army Meet Its Recruitment Goals This Year
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Months after Donald Trump promised a “great rebuilding of the Armed Forces,” the Army said that it had missed its recruiting goal for the first time in over a decade. It had aimed to enlist 76,500 new members this year but missed the mark…
Jeff Sessions Couldn’t Get State AGs to Back His Campaign Against Tech
Olivier Douliery/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions summoned a group of his state-level counterparts to visit DC to discuss tech regulations on Tuesday. And while Sessions tried to push the group of attorneys general to join him in attacking tech companies for supposed…
A Federal Judge Restored Endangered Species Protection for Grizzlies in Yellowstone
Will Powers/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A federal judge on Monday restored endangered species protection to about 700 grizzly bears living in or around Yellowstone National Park just days before Wyoming and…
Kavanaugh Allegations Bring a Reckoning at Yale Law School
Yale Law School students place a protest sign next to a photograph of alum and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on campus.Catherine McCarthy, Yale Law School Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just a few weeks ago, the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court appeared to be yet another…
Climate Change Will Ravage US National Parks
Most of Joshua Tree national park could become uninhabitable due to climate change.Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. America’s national parks have warmed twice as fast as the US average and could see…
Gun Control Groups Are Pouring Serious Money Into House Races
A screenshot from one of gun control group Giffords’ ads targeting Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.).Giffords PAC Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that ignited a national outcry for stricter gun laws, gun safety-aligned candidates and gun safety advocates have been hellbent on translating that outrage…