Worker Charged With Sexually Molesting Eight Children at Immigrant Shelter, New Records Show
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. It includes graphic details of alleged sexual violence against minors. A youth care worker for Southwest Key has been charged with 11 sex offenses after authorities accused him of molesting at least eight unaccompanied immigrant boys over…
Quote of the Day: England, Britain, UK, Whatevs
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Who Ratted Out Michael Cohen?
Go Nakamura via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal reports that Franklin Haney, a big donor to the Trump campaign, offered Michael Cohen a $10 million contract if he could wangle a huge federal loan for a couple of nuclear power plants Haney was trying to…
These States Are Going to War Over Trump Eliminating Car Emissions Rules
Drivers enter Sacramento on Highway 50 Rich Pedroncelli/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, in one of the Trump administration’s most aggressive attacks on the environment yet, the White House proposed to cut Obama-era fuel economy standards that would have dramatically reduced harmful air pollution in the next decade.…
Sanders Refuses to Say That the Press Is Not the Enemy of the People
Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during a press briefing. Cheriss May/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update: President Donald Trump clarified his stance in a tweet Thursday afternoon: They asked my daughter Ivanka whether or not the media is the enemy of the people. She correctly said no. It is…
Stock Buybacks Are Just Another Way for Insiders to Make Money
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Via Vox, here’s a recent speech from SEC commissioner Robert Jackson. Jackson and his team took a look at the behavior of corporate insiders after they had announced a stock buyback: We dove into the data, studying 385 buybacks over the last fifteen months….First, we…