Donald Trump’s Business Empire Is No Longer Growing
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s business empire has always relied on growth. But according to new personal financial disclosure documents filed by the president, it’s not growing much these days. Since the beginning of Trump’s term, a number of reports have provided anecdotal evidence that some…
Black Oaklanders Rally Around Racially Charged BBQ Incident That Became a Viral Video
A screenshot of the viral video of the now infamous April 29 incident in which a white woman called the police on two black men barbecuing on a lake in Oakland, California.Michelle Dione/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Dozens of black Oaklanders showed up at a city council meeting last…
Republicans Prove They’re the World Champs of Working the Refs
Rex Shutterstock via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a political context, “working the refs” usually refers to the press. It’s an effort by one side or the other to complain so loudly about unfair coverage that reporters start bending over backward to provide positive coverage instead. But it…
A Grim New Reality: More Overdose Deaths Means More Available Organs
Ridofranz/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The mounting death toll from the overdose epidemic has had an unforeseen effect: more organ donors. Between 2000 and 2016, the number of organ donors who died of drug overdoses grew 17-fold, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine. In 2016,…
Scott Pruitt Just Testified Before Congress. It Didn’t Go Well.
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Given an opportunity to address the scandals that have dominated his 16 months at the head of at the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt admitted Wednesday, “I would not make the same decisions again.” It was the only time in the…
The FBI and Justice Department Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica
Alex Milan Tracy/SIPA USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The FBI and Department of Justice have opened an investigation into Cambridge Analytica, the pro-Trump data company that surreptitiously obtained Facebook data from tens of millions of Americans. Cambridge announced earlier this month that it was shutting down after…