Paul Ryan Is OK With Nunes Doc Demand That Might Risk Lives
Mother Jones; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Devin Nunes has lately taken to demanding that the Justice Department turn over records of the Mueller investigation. For obvious reasons, records of active investigations are normally confidential since the FBI doesn’t want to (a) hurt innocent people who…
Raw Data: Rent in 3 Big Cities
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here are the rent indexes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for three of the most expensive cities in America, adjusted for overall inflation: Until the late-90s, rents in these cities bounced around but ended up roughly flat compared to 1960. Since then, it’s been…
North Korea Releases Three Detained Americans
Al Drago/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The three Americans detained in North Korea have been released and are making their way back to the US with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Wednesday morning. The move comes as Trump and North Korean leader Kim…
That Racial Profiling Incident at Nordstrom Rack Apparently Wasn’t a First
A Nordstrom Rack in Columbia, MarylandTripplaar Kristoffer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Danielle Stubblefield, 42, stood outside a Nordstrom Rack store feeling frustrated, desperately hoping to prevent what she believed was an instance of racial profiling from escalating. The police had been called on several black teenagers who had entered the…
God Said to Make the Desert Bloom, and Mormons Are Using Biblical Amounts of Water to Do It
bozhdb/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Utah is one of the driest states in the country, but you couldn’t tell by how much water its residents are using. The average American uses between 80 and 100 gallons a day. In Utah, each individual consumes approximately 248 gallons of water a day. …
Michael Cohen Just Mortgaged His Prized Trump Condo in $9 Million Loan Deal
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Michael Cohen, the longtime Trump fixer at the center of multiple presidential scandals, just mortgaged his multi-million-dollar condo in the swanky Trump Park Avenue building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as part of a $9 million loan deal related to his troubled taxicab business. Cohen’s new loan comes as he…