Trump Claims His Tariffs Will Pay Down Debt—After He Drove Up Deficits With a Billionaire Tax Cut
Brian Cahn/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just before Christmas, President Donald Trump signed a tax bill that will raise the national debt by nearly $2 trillion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, while likely saving him and his heirs millions of dollars per year. Eight months later, the…
California’s Mendocino Complex Fire Is Now the Fifth Largest in State History
A 747 Global Airtanker makes a fire retardant drop in front of advancing flames from a wildfire in Lakeport, Calif., last Thursday. Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By Sunday morning, the fierce Northern California blazes known as the Mendocino Complex fire had devoured 254,000 acres,…
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…