Trump Nominates Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court
Brett Kavanaugh testifies at a Senate hearing on his nomination to be US Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit. CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is nominating Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court to fill the seat of retiring Justice Anthony…
Watch Tearful Migrant Families Reunite After Weeks of Separation
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Images of tearful embraces and family reunifications have spread quickly across social media over the past few days, against the backdrop of legal battles and public pressure for the government to reunify families who have been separated at the border. According to recent estimates from…
This Video Captured a Massive Iceberg Breaking off a Glacier
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This past June, late one night, a team of scientists camped out on a fjord in Greenland heard a roar. When icebergs are born, they fill the ocean with noise, and the Helheim…
Trump Administration Will Not Meet Deadline for Reuniting Young Children
Yeni Gonzalez, a Guatemalan mother who was separated from her three children at the US-Mexico border, at a news conference in July in New York. Craig Ruttle/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration confirmed on Monday that it will not meet the deadline set by a federal judge…
San Francisco Fed: Don’t Expect Much From Those Tax Cuts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tax cuts and spending increases can help boost the economy during a recession. But what if the economy is already in good shape? Tim Mahedy and Daniel J. Wilson of the San Francisco Fed review the literature for us: A burgeoning economic literature has studied…
The UN Encourages Breastfeeding. Donald Trump Is Lying About It.
Ton Koene/VW Pics via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last night I linked to a New York Times story about how the Trump administration bullied Ecuador into withdrawing its sponsorship of a UN resolution to encourage breastfeeding. Are you curious about what the resolution actually says? Sure you are!…