One of The Country’s Most Powerful Police Chiefs Is Calling for Gun Control After the Texas School Shooting
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo at the March for Our Lives on March 24.David J. Phillip/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The evening after a gunman killed 10 people at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, Houston police chief Art Acevedo took to Facebook to write an impassioned plea…
New Study of Bitcoin’s Energy Use Makes You Libertarian Nerds Look Even Worse Than Usual
Artur Widak/NurPhoto/ZUMA 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. Bitcoin’s energy footprint has more than doubled since Grist first wrote about it six months ago. It’s expected to double again by the end of the year, according to a…
Missouri Is Making It Illegal To Call This “Meat”
nito100/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The United States’ beef and pork producers churned out 48.4 billion pounds of red meat in 2015, and made $9 billion exporting it around the world. Despite that success, they appear threatened by the growing number of meat alternatives cropping up in grocery stores.…
A $50,000-a-Night Underwater Hotel Room in the Maldives Shows How Oblivious We Are to Climate Change
Andrey Nekrasov/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a tiny nation that will likely be underwater due to sea level rise within the next century, an American luxury hotel chain is constructing an underwater hotel room that…
Texas Governor Who Recently Blamed Gun Violence on Godlessness Now Says He’ll Do Something
Stuart Villanueva/The Galveston County Daily News/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a press briefing Friday afternoon, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has traditionally been a staunch gun rights supporter, called the Santa Fe High School shooting the “worst disaster ever to strike this community” and said, this time, thoughts and prayers weren’t enough.…
There’s a 700,000-Case Backlog in Immigration Courts. Jeff Sessions Just Decided to Pile On More.
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past 10 years, the backlog in America’s immigration courts has nearly quadrupled to roughly 700,000 cases. On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a decision that could dramatically expand that backlog at a time when immigrants often wait years before judges…