Sen. Susan Collins Says Brett Kavanaugh Believes the Right to Abortion is Settled Law
Tom Williams/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brett Kavanaugh believes that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, is “settled law,” Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) told reporters outside her office on Tuesday. Collins made the statement after a highly-anticipated meeting with Kavanaugh, who is President Trump’s…
Chinese Investors Are Discovering the Joys of Structured Products
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The good old days are back. In China, anyway: Structured deposits offer higher returns than regular savings accounts and are tied to bets on assets from currencies to gold. They have been around for years, but the sums outstanding have soared recently. In July they…
The Growing List of Hackings Ahead of the 2018 Midterm Elections
Sharifulin Valery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a startling announcement Tuesday, Microsoft revealed that the same Kremlin-backed military intelligence unit believed to have carried out the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee attempted last week to target the US Senate and conservative think tanks that have broken with…
Here’s What Happens When an Old Steel Town Gets Real About the Environment
Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article was published by CityLab in collaboration with Topic and its new documentary series Braddock, PA, about residents fighting to bring their polluted steel town back from the brink. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Where Braddock Avenue ends, after a patchwork of…
Zinke Blamed “Environmental Terrorists” for Wildfires. Here’s the Crazy Backstory That Led to That.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From California to British Columbia, the West is burning up. While fire experts are clear that climate change is a major factor in making wildfires more frequent and more intense, Interior Secretary…
Civil Rights Groups Target Majority-Black Georgia County Seeking to Shutter Most Polling Places
A Georgia voter waits in a long line during early voting in October 2008.Erik Lesser/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Civil rights groups are mobilizing to block a majority-black Georgia county from shuttering seven of its nine polling locations for the November elections, alleging that the plan by the county…