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Donald Trump Is Live-Tweeting Fox News Again

Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Straight from the TV to the president’s favorite form of official communications to his constituents: While we are on the subject, it is reported that the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon. That amounts…

How 5 Large Mega-Gyres Helped Create a “Galaxy of Garbage” in the Pacific

Susan White/US Fish and Wildlife Service Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. What’s 1.6 million square kilometers, weighs 80,000 metric tons, and is three times the size of continental France? That would be the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—the…

The Edibles Market Is Exploding. You Can Bet Big Corporations Are Watching.

Edibles on display at a California marijuana dispensary Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In America, pot is what’s hot. So far, nine states—California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, Alaska, Vermont—and Washington D.C. have legalized recreational, adult-use weed. Meanwhile, venture capitalists are pumping the industry with cash; college students…

Voting Rights Advocates Just Won a Big Victory in Court

Voters wait outside the Supervisor of Elections office in Palm Beach County, Florida, to vote early in the 2010 midterm elections.The Palm Beach Post/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A conservative legal group’s crusade to purge voter lists across the country hit a setback Friday when a federal judge in Florida…

We Need More Research Into Race and IQ, Please

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here in my little corner of the blogosphere, IQ and race are having yet another mini-moment. The reasons don’t really matter, and the arguments are exactly the same as they have been every time before. On the “blacks are dumber” side, it always goes something…