Obamacare Is Now Stable and Providing Millions With Health Coverage
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the Wall Street Journal: After years of big rate increases on Affordable Care Act plans, insurers in many states are seeking smaller hikes and even some reductions, according to new federal data that provide the broadest view so far of next year’s health-law markets.…
Scientists Just Announced a Terrifying New Heat Record
Vallauri Nicolas/Maxppp via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on Earth that didn’t feature an El Niño, a periodic climatic event that warms the Pacific Ocean, according to…
What Would Be the Consequences If Sessions Broke His Recusal and Fired Mueller?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the conservative organization Turning Point USA’s High School Leadership Summit in Washington, DC, on July 24. Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump triggered a new wave of panic in Washington, DC, on Wednesday morning when he urged Attorney General Jeff…
Trump Set a Record-Low Refugee Cap. Now He May Cut It in Half.
Syrian refugees wait to register at an employment office at a refugee camp in Jordan.Raad Adayleh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last year, President Donald Trump cut the annual cap on the number of refugees allowed into the United States to the lowest level on record. This year’s 45,000-person limit…
Sanders Defends Trump on Needing an ID to Buy Groceries
Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a White House press briefing in July.Michael Brochstein via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was put in the awkward position Wednesday of explaining President Donald Trump’s bizarre assertion that people need to present photo identification to buy groceries.…
The New York Times Fails to Name and Shame Climate Villains
Lisa Blue/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New York Times Magazine has just published an ambitious and heavily-promoted issue entitled “Losing Earth,” which is entirely devoted to telling a single complicated story: How the world missed its window to address climate change. Nathaniel Rich’s historical narrative looks at the politicians, scientists, public officials,…