New Omarosa Tape Appears to Back Claim She Was Offered $15,000 a Month to Stay Quiet
Cheriss May/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new secret recording released by Omarosa Manigault Newman on Thursday appears to show President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law offering the former White House aide a $15,000-a-month job shortly after she was fired last December. Manigault Newman told NBC that the recording demonstrates the Trump…
The Era of CEO Super-Pay Appears to Be on Hiatus
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. EPI has an interesting piece today about the growth of CEO pay. It’s the usual story: depending on how you measure it, CEO pay used to be about 20x worker pay, while today it’s 200-300x higher. But I was more curious about something else. CEO…
Read Barack and Michelle Obama’s Statement on the Passing of Aretha Franklin
Former president Barack Obama celebrates with Aretha Franklin at a 2015 Justice Department event to unveil the official portrait of Eric Holder, the former Attorney General.@BarackObama/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died on Thursday at her home in Detroit, aged 76. The former president,…
Even Corporations Think Donald Trump Is a Little Too Nice to Corporations
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump wants to loosen the Volcker Rule, which regulates whose money banks can gamble with, but it turns out that even Wall Street doesn’t want him to do this: “I can’t imagine this aspect of the proposal being preferable to the original and current…
Here’s Why Alaska Might Seriously Consider a Carbon Tax
Farah Nosh/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. Alaska isn’t exactly the first state you’d expect to embrace a price on carbon. Yet the state legislature will likely be weighing one after the November elections. When carbon taxes…
California Cops Shot and Killed 162 People Last Year. This Bill Could Help Reduce the Bloodshed.
Riot police officers stand guard at street after the World Cup match between Mexico and Brazil in Huntington Park, California, on Monday, July 2, 2018. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A California bill that would radically change the standard for the use of deadly force by police officers…