Kentucky’s Governor Just Apologized for Claiming Teacher Protest Led to Sexual Assaults
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin. Alex Slit/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) issued an apology Sunday following outrage over his assertion that a walkout by teachers in the state likely led to children being sexually assaulted and facing other “physical” harms. “I guarantee…
Trump’s Approval Rating Really Is Up
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump can blather all he wants about the Rasmussen poll—which has always been extremely friendly to Republicans—but in reality his approval rating is nowhere near 50 percent. However, it is up. Why? I suppose that nothing really big has happened since the tax cut…
The Trump Administration Just Announced More Sanctions Against Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during the APEC Summit in 2017.Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the wake of last week’s suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday that the United…
Donald Trump Really Wants You to Know How Well He’s Doing in One Specific Poll
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump isn’t a very popular president. According to the FiveThirtyEight polling average, his approval rating is currently around 41 percent. That’s about 7 points below where Barack Obama was at this stage of his presidency. But Trump isn’t interested in polling averages.…
Trump Threatens Comey With Jail Time in Unhinged Tirade
Olivier Douliery/Abaca (Sipa via AP) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump spent Sunday morning railing against former FBI Director James Comey, whose highly anticipated book will be released Tuesday. In a series of unhinged tweets, the president described Comey, whom he fired last year, as “not smart”; the…
Earth’s Powerful, Climate-Shaping Water Currents Are Weak and Broken and It’s Time to Freak Out
piola666/iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The warm Atlantic current linked to severe and abrupt changes in the climate in the past is now at its weakest in at least 1,600 years, new research shows. The…