Trump Looking to Remove Security Clearances of Former Obama Officials
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is exploring ways to revoke the security clearances of six former Obama officials who have been critical of his relationship with Russia, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Monday. Sanders claimed that the former officials had made “baseless” remarks regarding…
Safer, Cleaner Nuclear Energy—If We Want It
Imago via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Back in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager in New York, found the kind of opportunity that he thought could transform the world while—in the process— transforming…
Republicans Have Been Putting a Ton of Work Into Screwing Over Endangered Species
A grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming Jacob W. Frank/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a brutal legislative session for endangered plants and animals. Just in the past week and a half, Congressional Republicans moved forward at least a dozen measures intended to gut the Endangered Species Act.…
Here’s Some Folk-Pop for Confronting the Late-Night Demons
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cowboy JunkiesAll That ReckoningLatent Led by singer Margo Timmins and her brother, guitarist and songwriter Michael Timmins, Canada’s Cowboy Junkies have been making distinctive, brooding folk-pop for more than three decades. Though best known for their breakthrough second album, The Trinity Session, the group has…
How the Hospitals Serving Trump Voters Are Closing—And He’s Letting It Happen
Jun Cen Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By the time Copper Basin Medical Center launched a GoFundMe campaign in May last year, the hospital in the Appalachian foothills was buried in debt. It had been forced to suspend inpatient operations; many of its nurses and staffers had gone weeks without paychecks.…
Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Says There Are More Secret Tapes Between Trump and Michael Cohen
Michael Avenatti, attorney for Stormy DanielsRichard Drew, File/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In its April raid of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s offices, the FBI reportedly seized a recording of the president and his longtime lawyer discussing payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal in order to keep her quiet…