A DNA Test, Vague WhatsApp Messages, and Home Visits: A Mother Fights to Get Her Daughter Back
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya opened her mouth, and a gloved hand gave each cheek a perfunctory brush with a cotton swab. Fifteen seconds, and the $429 DNA test she’d paid for was over. “Eso es todo,” the lab technician said last Thursday. That…
Putin Just Dismissed the Mueller Probe as “Political Games” in Fox News Interview
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested the Mueller investigation is politically motivated, calling it part of the United States’ “internal political games” in a 30-minute interview with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace that aired Monday night. “It’s quite clear to me that [the Mueller investigation] is…
Putin’s Comments in Helsinki Only Raised More Questions About Russia’s Election Interference
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a soccer ball to U.S. President Donald Trump, left, during a press conference after their meeting in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018.Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s remarks at a joint news conference with Vladimir Putin on Monday were…
President Putin and Vice President Trump Hold Press Conference in Helsinki
Metzel Mikhail/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The evil dex giveth and the evil dex taketh away. Today it barely gave me time to click the publish button on my Puny Humans post before sending me into a 6-hour crash. So I missed the entire Helsinki summit. How’d…
During a Historic Heat Wave, Researchers Make the Case for Sustainable Cooling
Charlie Kaijo/Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid the hottest summer on record for various regions across the globe, a team of researchers affiliated with the United Nations released a report calling on entrepreneurs and politicians to fund affordable ways for people to cool off…
US Indicts Russian Gun Activist Who Interacted with NRA and the Trump Campaign
Federal prosecutors have charged Maria Butina, a Russia gun-rights activist with a long history of interactions with the National Rifle Association and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, for conspiring to act as a Russian agent without registering with the US Department of Justice. In a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday, federal prosecutors charge that Butina, 29,…