Trump Says the US Is Trying to Reunite Kids With Their Families
Yin Bogu/Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This morning, President Donald Trump tweeted that the United States is helping with efforts to reunite families whose children have been separated from them due to heart-wrenching circumstances beyond their control: The U.S. is working very closely with the Government of…
Market Manipulation Officially Doesn’t Exist Anymore
Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember credit default swaps? Roughly speaking, they were designed as a way of turning a low-rated bond into a higher-rated bond. You’d buy, say, a BBB bond, plus insurance from a third-party against the possibility of default, and for…
Breast Feeding? Not So Fast. The Tender Feelings of Infant Formula Makers Come First.
Ric Francis via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Trump administration: A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health…
The Oil Industry Has Launched a Preemptive Strike Over Washington State’s Carbon Tax Ballot Initiative
Jeff Malet/Newscom 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. A bunch of heavy boxes arrived in the Washington state capital on Monday morning. They were filled with thousands of petitions in support of the proposed “Protect…
Could Liberals Raise a Billion Dollars a Year to Fund Abortions?
John Middlebrook/CSM via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bear with me for a few moments while I outline a probably dumb idea. But the possibility that Roe v. Wade might soon be on the chopping block has nudged it back into my mind again. My question is: how many…
Obama’s Homeland Security Chief Just Waded Into the “Abolish ICE” Fight
Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last few weeks, fueled by Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary upset in New York and and a frenzy of damning stories about the Trump administration’s immigration policies, calls to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency…