Indicted GOP Congressman Ends Reelection Bid
Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.)Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Embattled New York Congressman Chris Collins announced Saturday that he is suspending his reelection campaign—a move that comes several days after he was indicted on federal insider trading charges. Collins said in a statement that he will…
A Year Later, Charlottesville Remembers Heather Heyer
Heather Heyer’s mother Susan Bro speaks with reporters in front of a memorial.Steve Helber/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A year ago this weekend, Charlottesville was overrun with Confederate flags, swastikas, and torch-carrying white supremacists. While much of the anniversary has been overrun with news about Unite the Right’s planned…
Trump Threatens to Interfere With FBI
Thomas O’Neill/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump warned Saturday morning that he “may have to get involved” in FBI business. In a pair of tweets, the president complained that the bureau has not turned over to the conservative group Judicial Watch text messages sent by former…
It’s Not Just Kobach: Three Vote-Suppressing Secretaries of State Are Overseeing Their Own Elections
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach talks to reporters the day before the Republican primary in Kansas.Shelly Yang/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tuesday’s too-close-to-call Republican primary election for Kansas governor has plunged the state into an ethics crisis. Secretary of State Kris Kobach emerged with a 121-vote lead over…
This Exceptional Novel Was Pecked Out on a Prison Typewriter by an Iraq Veteran Turned Bank Robber
A Medevac crew near Tikrit, Iraq, November 2005.Jacob Silberberg/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The author page reads simply, “Nico Walker lives in Kentucky. Cherry is his first novel.” Walker, 33, wanted it that way. What the bio doesn’t say is that his Kentucky abode is a federal prison. Or…
Air Pollution Denial Could Become EPA Policy
Xinhua News Agency/GettyImages Contributor Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Much of the Republican Party has long denied the science of climate change—that humans are causing the planet to warm. They’ve been less willing, historically, to deny…