Gun Maker Complains That People Are Saying Mean Things About Its Products on Social Media
High school students protest outside the White House after the Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas.Erin Scott/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. People are saying mean things about guns—and guns can’t defend themselves. That’s the message from Vista Outdoor, the $2.3 billion holding company that owns Savage Arms, one…
Trump’s Latest Tweet Just Crossed Another Bright Line
Kevin Dietsch/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Still stewing from a flurry of new reports about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his 2016 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump demanded Sunday that the Department of Justice investigate itself: I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department…
Texas’ Lieutenant Governor Uncovers the Cause of Mass Shootings: Abortion
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What’s to blame for the recent spate of mass shootings? Ask an expert and they might point you to the persistent availability of high-powered weaponry, or, as my colleague Mark Follmnan has reported, even the media coverage of the shootings themselves. Domestic abuse and toxic…
Now Trump Is Coming For Your Beer
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since its emergence in 1935, the aluminum beer can has been a fixture on the US drinking scene. About half of packaged beer of the country’s two dominant mega-brewers—AB InBev (maker of Budweiser) and MillerCoors—comes in cans. And now their fast-growing craft competitors have discovered the…
I Asked a Bunch of Scientists if Climate Change Was Affecting the Bacteria in My Gut
Grist/Amelia Bates 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. Those of us who believe in climate change (and maybe some who don’t) jokingly blame all kinds of things on it, from flat tires to summer hailstorms. Case of the…
How Long Does It Take To Figure Out If a Ten-Dollar Bill Is Real?
Emory Ellis, who was apparently suspected of trying to pass the world’s most perfect counterfeit ten-dollar bill.Steven Senne/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days ago, we reported on the story of Emory Ellis, a homeless man who was arrested for trying to pass a counterfeit bill: According to…