Why Russian Spies Really Like American Universities
Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia in 2013.AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Under the alias Cynthia Murphy, Russian spy Lydia Guryeva…
Republicans Have Mostly Stayed Loyal to Their Party In the Trump Era
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Whenever the topic of Donald Trump’s continuing popularity among Republicans comes up, somebody asks if maybe it’s just an artifact of the polling. If moderates are abandoning the Republican Party because of Trump, then simple arithmetic says that most of the folks who are left…
How Brett Kavanaugh Could Cripple the Next Democratic President
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh walks up the Capitol steps with Vice President Mike Pence. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In February 2017, Brett Kavanaugh traveled to the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. It was four days after President Donald Trump had…
More than 400 Parents Separated from Their Children Were Potentially Deported, Trump Administration Claims
Cory Morse/MLive.com/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Federal authorities believe that 463 parents separated from children over the age of 5 at the southern border were “not in [the] U.S.” as of Monday, July 23—potentially indicating that hundreds of parents have been deported despite a federal order to reunify families last month. Government lawyers…
Trump Continues Searching For New Ways of Taking Revenge on People He Doesn’t Like
Pete Souza/The White House/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s red-faced rage against anyone who criticizes him is now being directed against people with security clearances: President Trump threatened on Monday to strip the security clearances of former national security officials who have criticized his refusal to confront Russia…
Let’s Face It: We’ve Overexploited Photos of Cute Polar Bears
Paul Zinken/DPA via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate change has a new symbol, and it’s not melting ice floes or charismatic megafauna. Last week, researchers at Yale University and the University of Westminster published an…