Donald Trump Really Wants You to Know How Well He’s Doing in One Specific Poll
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump isn’t a very popular president. According to the FiveThirtyEight polling average, his approval rating is currently around 41 percent. That’s about 7 points below where Barack Obama was at this stage of his presidency. But Trump isn’t interested in polling averages.…
Earth’s Powerful, Climate-Shaping Water Currents Are Weak and Broken and It’s Time to Freak Out
piola666/iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The warm Atlantic current linked to severe and abrupt changes in the climate in the past is now at its weakest in at least 1,600 years, new research shows. The…
Michael Cohen, Once the President’s Trusted Fixer, Emerges as His Greatest Liability
Michael Cohen in Manhattan on April 14.Wes Bruer/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michael Cohen, an attorney long known as President Donald Trump’s fixer, has become Trump’s biggest headache. Cohen finds himself at the intersection of two related lines of investigation, one into the Trump campaign’s suspected coordination with…
The Second “March for Science” Is Happening Today
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The second “March for Science” is happening across the globe on Saturday. Last year’s edition drew out some 1.1 million scientists, students, and other supporters of evidence-based policy making. Organizers are expecting a much smaller turnout today, but events in support of the march are…
House Republicans Just Ramped Up Their Investigation of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
Cheriss May/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chair of the House Oversight committee, sent Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt notice that the GOP-controlled committee was expanding its investigation into Pruitt’s spending. Pruitt has recently become embroiled in a number of scandals and…
Russia Warns of “Consequences” as Putin Denounces Syria Strikes
Russian President Vladimir Putin. April 14, 2018. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced joint American, British, and French missile strikes on Syria as “an act of aggression against a sovereign state” and said he would seek an emergency meeting of the United Nations’ Security Council. “Russia condemns in the strongest…