Donald Trump Threatens to Annihilate Iran But No One Really Cares
Brian Cahn via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just before midnight, something got President Trump agitated and he hurled this tweet out into the ether: To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE…
The FBI Released Documents on the Carter Page Wiretap. Then Trump Had a Twitter Meltdown.
Former Trump campaign advisor Carter PageJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, the Justice Department released previously-classified documents on the FBI’s surveillance of Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. The documents, a redacted version of the bureau’s 2016 application for a top-secret warrant to surveil Page under the…
Brett Kavanaugh Once Said the Watergate Tapes Decision Was “Wrongly Decided”
Supreme Court nominee Brett KavanaughJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh once suggested that the Supreme Court decision that forced President Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes may have been “wrongly decided.” Kavanaugh was taking part in a 1999 roundtable with other lawyers, according…
Skyscrapers Full of Lettuce Promise an Eco-Friendly Alternative to Outdoor Farming. There’s Just One Problem.
Jun Cen Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For growing food, the sun is yesterday’s technology. Soil? As quaint as an iPod. Such are the promises of vertical farms—indoor towers stacked high with crops. Waterborne nutrients feed the plants, and led lights drive their photosynthesis. The idea emerged back in 2000, when Columbia…
Chicago’s Last Waterfall Is About to Disappear
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s hard to chase waterfalls in the city of Chicago. Although there is a smattering of decorative cascades—Stearns Quarry Park, for example, has a water feature made out of recycled sidewalk…
Pence Stumps for Candidate Who Said He Would Personally Round Up and Deport Immigrants
Vice President Mike Pence at the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas in June 2018. Rodger Mallison/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Vice President Mike Pence campaigned for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp on Saturday in the final days of the GOP’s primary run-off. Pence arrived late, coming from…