New Report Shows Another Contact Between Trump Associates and a Russian Peddling Dirt On Clinton
Roger Stone arrives to testify behind closed-doors as part of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, on Capitol Hill Sept. 26, 2017.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post had a big scoop on Sunday: During the 2016 presidential campaign,…
Bad Boy! Eat This Pizza!
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Steve Bannon Says MLK Would Be Proud of What Trump’s Done for Blacks And Hispanics
ABC “This Week” Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump’s controversial former adviser Steve Bannon spent Father’s Day making his first live appearance on a Sunday morning network talk show since leaving the White House in August last year. He marked the occasion with a host of inflammatory comments on…
Do Crime Declines Produce Higher Housing Prices?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something out of the blue. A few days ago I read Chris Hayes’ A Colony In a Nation, and in it he asserted that New York City’s big crime decline of the 90s and aughts was partly responsible for the city’s skyrocketing property prices…
A Green Alternative to Cremation: Dissolving Your Corpse in Water and Lye
Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Samantha Sieber’s grandfather had a traditional American burial. His body was embalmed, put in a metal casket, and laid to rest at a cemetery, where…
How an Ancient Extinction Foreshadowed the Planet’s Future
NASA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In January, I stood in a ditch in the middle of nowhere in South Africa, and the summer sun beat down as I stared at a heap of grape soda-colored rocks.…