Trump Rescues Summit With Appeasing Words For Kim Jong-un
Olivier Douliery/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A couple of days ago, North Korea released a statement saying that it might have to “reconsider” its upcoming summit meeting with President Trump after inflammatory remarks from National Security Advisor John Bolton: But now prior to the DPRK-U.S. summit, unbridled…
It’s Time We Had a Talk About White People Calling the Cops on Black People
Stock photoAlbert Van Rosendaa/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You may have heard about that unsettling incident last week—the one in which a white Yale graduate student called campus police on a black classmate who’d fallen asleep on the sofa in the common room of their student apartment building.…
Yet Another Town Is Dealing With Lead Contamination
Davel5957/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In northwest Indiana, it seems as if no city is safe from lead pollution. According to a report from the Chicago Tribune, the Environmental Protection Agency has found alarmingly high levels of lead in the soil in dozens of yards in Hammond and Whiting, Indiana, neighboring…
Ali Wong Stuck With the Major Your Mom Told You to Drop and Here She Is Today
Ali Wong performing at Toronto’s Winter Garden theater.Ken Woroner/Netflix Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “It was not supposed to go down like this,” comedian Ali Wong says toward the end of her latest Netflix special, Hard Knock Wife, which premiered this past weekend. Her husband works as vice president of…
A Promising New Ebola Vaccine Is About to Be Put to the Test
Health care volunteers are sprayed with bleach after removing corpses of Ebola victims in Koango, Guinea, in 2014. Idrissa Soumar/Planet Pix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since Ebola was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, outbreaks have largely been stopped with the same methods—isolating the sick, and…
Scott Pruitt Is At It Again
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 2016, the EPA released a health advisory for a class of chemicals called PFOA and PFOS, setting a limit in drinking water of 70 parts per trillion. Over the past decade these chemicals have mostly been phased out, but years of use had…