Trump Just Confirmed What the Trump Tower Meeting Was Really About
Brian Cahn/Li Muzi/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump admitted Sunday morning that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, Donald, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was designed to get damaging information about Hillary Clinton—contradicting the president’s original claims made last summer that…
Too Hot to Cook? These Instant Pot Recipes Will Save You.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the middle of a brutally hot summer—even by Austin standards—I’m not keen to fire up the oven. But at the farmers market, many of the vegetables I encounter are hardy ones that do well with a long, hot roast. There’s loads of butternut squash,…
Fire Scientists Are Sure of Only One Thing: This Will Get Worse
Jose Luis Villegas/Sacramento Bee Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Subtract out the conspiracists and the willfully ignorant and the argument marshaled by skeptics against global warming, roughly restated, assumes that scientists vastly overstate the consequences of pumping greenhouse…
Your Chicken’s Salmonella Problem Is Worse Than You Think
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Americans love chicken, but it doesn’t always love us back. We eat way more of it than any other meat, and it triggers more foodborne disease outbreak-related illnesses than any other food, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The main…
Impending Execution Has Concentrated Republican Minds Wonderfully
James Borchuck/Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal proves once and for all that Republican politicians are brain dead: President Trump, unaccustomed to campaigning for others, has settled into a new rhythm with Republican candidates who have found the key to securing a…
Trump Takes to Twitter to Defend His China Tariffs
Matt Rourke/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on $200 billion worth of imported Chinese goods has been widely unpopular. Even so, on Wednesday, Trump decided to up the ante: He ordered his administration to consider raising the rate from 10 percent to 25…