Sarah Huckabee Sanders Booted From Restaurant Because “I Work for POTUS.”
Michael Candelori/Pacific Press/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday morning, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that she had been thrown out of a restaurant Friday night because “I work for @POTUS.” Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to…
Is the BMW 750i a Threat to National Security?
BMW of North America Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. So Donald Trump is now publicly threatening to slap a 20 percent tariff on European cars in retaliation for Europe’s retaliation over Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum. I’m not going to bother writing yet again about how dumb this is.…
Probable Cause Is Not Really a Huge Barrier For Police
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You know what really gets me about the recent Supreme Court case over police access to cell phone location records? It’s not as if anyone was trying to take away their ability to get them. All anyone wanted was for police to get a warrant…
What the Heck Is Wrong With Mike Huckabee?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What, exactly, is wrong with Mike Huckabee? That’s what a lot of observers are asking after the former Arkansas governor and Christian minister tweeted out a photo this morning of what appears to be a group of Latino gang members, and joked that House Minority…
The Homeless in Los Angeles
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you take a look at Google Maps, you can find skid row in Los Angeles pretty easily. It’s just east of downtown and less than a mile south of City Hall—and it’s labeled “Skid Row.” That surprises me a little, since this is hardly…
A Big Drilling Company Was Ready to Set up a Mine in This Arizona Town. Then an Endangered Owl Showed Up.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last October, two field researchers were surveying waterways in southern Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains, when one of them glanced into a tree and said, “Uh-oh.” They saw a Mexican spotted owl,…