An Alaska Ballot Initiative Pits Protecting Habitats Against the Fossil Fuel Industry
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. During Alaska’s short summer, community fairs sprout across the state like bright blooms of lupine and fireweed. This year, rival booths appeared between the carnival rides and live bands. Stand for Salmon,…
Here’s the Most Memorable Moment of the First Texas Senate Debate
Tom Fox/Dallas Morning News/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you wanted to summarize Friday’s Texas Senate debate between Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in just one exchange, it would probably be the last one. Just before closing statements, at the end of an often-contentious 50 minutes,…
Republicans Had 27 Years to Prepare for Another Anita Hill Moment. They’re Still Blowing It.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), joined at left by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), listens to Democrats on the panel appeal to delay the confirmation hearing of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, in Washington on September 4. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans…
Watch Senate Hopeful Beto O’Rourke Face Off Against Ted Cruz
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Friday’s Find Is a Familiar Narrative Told by Unfamiliar Artists
Nicole Mago Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s Friday! That means it’s time for this week’s “Friday Find,” our new weekly Instagram series where we spotlight a song, record, or artist worth blasting all weekend long. This week: Melt by Shaed (Melt, PhotoFinish Records, 2018) Why we’re into it: Part ballad, part dance track, part anthem, this will hit…
Rod Rosenstein Bombshell: He Talked of Secretly Recording Trump, Ousting Him Via the 25th Amendment
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the audience during the confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on Sept. 4, 2018. Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein talked about lining up cabinet members to…