Chart of the Day: GDP Growth in Q2
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The US economy grew 4.1 percent in the second quarter: That’s a big number, but it might be an outlier. GDP is a little unusual in being routinely reported as growth from the previous quarter, rather than the more normal growth over the previous year.…
Democratic Governors Are All Kind of Meh
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at National Review, Ramesh Ponnuru notes that Morning Consult’s list of popular governors is 100 percent Republican in the top ten. And that’s unusual: “I calculated the chance that all ten of the most popular governors would be Republicans just based on their dominance…
Bombshell Report: Michael Cohen Claims Trump Knew About Infamous Trump Tower Meeting
Go Nakamura/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Good evening: Cohen’s claim would contradict repeated denials by Trump, Donald Trump Jr., their lawyers and other administration officials who have said that the President knew nothing about the Trump Tower meeting until he was approached about it by The New York Times…
Trump’s EU Deal Won’t Do a Thing to Help Soybean Farmers
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump may have thing for soybean farmers—understandably, because the map of US soybean production tacks closely with that of the president’s support in the 2016 election. On Tuesday, he plucked $12 billion out of the federal Treasury to aid farmers ailing from severe price…
The Trump Administration Had Until Thursday to Reunite Separated Families. But Hundreds Will Remain Apart.
Jennifer Maradiaga, left, holds her daughter, Mia, 1, after they and other family members were reunited, Monday, July 23, in San Antonio. The children had been taken to a shelter in Arizona shortly after they had tried to cross the Rio Grande about two months earlier.AP/Eric Gay Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our…
A Judge Just Ruled the Trump Administration Has Failed in Protecting the World’s Rarest Marine Mammal
The vaquita porpoiseOmar Vidal/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a win for environmentalists Thursday, the United States Court of International Trade ruled that the federal government failed its “statutory duty” to protect the critically-endangered vaquita porpoise. With as few as 15 individuals remaining in the wild, the vaquita is the world’s…