Here’s the Video Steve Mnuchin Didn’t Want You to See
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at UCLA on February 26.UCLA/Burkle Center Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin probably didn’t expect to get a hard time when he visited the the University of California Los Angeles for a public conversation with Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal in late February. But…
The Trump Administration’s New Environmental Justice Adviser Has a Plutonium Problem
iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One year ago, the man who founded the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice resigned. In a lengthy letter, Mustafa Ali asked newly sworn-in EPA Administrator…
California Bullet Train Now Up to $98 Billion, Completion Pushed to 2033
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The other shoe dropped today on the latest cost increase for California’s bullet train: The price of the California bullet train project jumped sharply Friday when the state rail authority announced that the cost of connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco would be $77.3 billion…
The NRA Just Sued Florida for Raising the Minimum Age to Purchase a Gun
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference.Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It only took a few hours for the NRA to sue Florida officials after Gov. Rick Scott signed a law that raised the minimum age…
Donald Trump Is Still Obsessed With Hillary Clinton
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Oh FFS: Trump Pardons Sailor Who Invoked ‘Clinton Defense’ in Trial President Donald Trump pardoned a former Navy sailor who served a year in prison for taking sensitive pictures of the reactor inside a nuclear submarine, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday.…
Trump Is Meeting With Kim Jong Un! Wait, Maybe Not. Wait. Yes He Is.
Michael Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There are a bunch of headlines today suggesting that Trump is backing off his promise to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. At first this seems like a strained reading of something Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at today’s press…