The Pope Summoned Bishops for an Unprecedented Global Meeting on the Sex Abuse Scandal
Franco Origlia/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Pope Francis announced Wednesday that he would convene a global meetings of bishops next year to discuss the clergy sexual abuse crisis that has engulfed the Catholic Church and strengthened the partisan divide between bishops loyal to Francis and his conservative critics. The…
Undaunted by Trump, Thousands of Climate Activists Are Meeting to Plan Their Next Move
California Gov. Jerry BrownHector Amezcua/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A month after President Donald Trump pledged to pull the United States from the landmark 2015 Paris climate change pact meant to curb global carbon emissions, California Gov. Jerry Brown seized the leadership role and announced that San Francisco would host the…
The First Dreamer to Run for Office in New York Has a Message for Donald Trump
CatalinaCruzNY/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s incredibly hot on this August morning in Jackson Heights, Queens, but here’s Catalina Cruz in her element. “Our community deserves to stay in our barrios, and we’re gonna make sure that happens,” she says, standing before roughly a dozen supporters, across the street…
Why North Carolina Won’t Evacuate Its Beloved Wild Horses During the Hurricane
“They have really good instincts,” Puckett said. “These horses have lived in this area for 500 years. We can already see now, they’re starting to group together. They know where the high ground is. They know where to go.” There are other groups of wild horses in the state as well, but Puckett said it’s…
FEMA is About to Get Slammed by Florence
Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A year after the most destructive hurricane season in American history stretched the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s resources to capacity, the government agency charged with administrating disaster relief has to prepare for the strongest storm to hit the East Coast in over a decade. …
Democrats Are Giving Up on Compromise
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For quite a long time there’s been a large and durable partisan gap on the issue of compromise. Generally speaking, Republicans don’t like it: they want politicians to stick to their conservative principles, come hell or high water. If that means shutting down the government…