Trump’s FEMA to Americans: Don’t Count on Us This Hurricane Season
Eliud Echevarria/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Federal Emergency Management Agency was already supporting 692 federally declared disasters when hurricane season started last year. Then came the most destructive disaster season…
The NRA Has Deep Ties to Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina
Maria Butina in Moscow, in a photo she posted to Facebook in October 2013 Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, the National Rifle Association has promoted its hard-line politics with appeals to patriotism, freedom, and the staunch defense of the Second Amendment. But now, the controversial gun lobbying group…
There’s Something the Intelligence Community Wants You to Know
John Middlebrook/CSM via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This report from the New York Times is getting a lot of attention tonight: Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to…
Vladimir Putin Has a Few Little Questions For You
ITAR-TASS/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the Wall Street Journal: The White House is reviewing a request by Russian President Vladimir Putin to allow Russian investigators to question a number of Americans they say are implicated in criminal activity, including a former U.S. ambassador, a spokeswoman said. The White…
As Trial Date Is Finally Set for the Laquan McDonald Case, Chicago Grapples With Yet Another Police Shooting
A protest over the police killing of Harith Augustus in Chicago on July 16, 2018.James Foster/Chicago Sun-Times/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A candlelight vigil was held Wednesday near the site where 37-year-old Harith Augustus was shot and killed by a police officer over the weekend, following three consecutive days of protests…
High Court Kicks Silicon Valley Investor’s Plan to Split Up California Off Ballot
Venture capitalist Tim Draper points to a computer screen at his offices in San Mateo, Calif., showing that an initiative to split California into three states qualified for the ballot.Haven Daley/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California voters will no longer have the option to vote on splitting the largest state in…