San Francisco Plans to Walk Back Thousands of Marijuana Convictions
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon.Eric Risberg/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Now that recreational marijuana is officially legal in California, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office has announced that it will seek dismissals for more than 3,000 misdemeanor marijuana convictions dating as far back as 1975. The move is a result of California’s…
Ben Carson Keeps It All In the Family
Lance Cheung/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post has a story today about a “listening tour” that Ben Carson set up in Baltimore a few months ago. It seems odd that Carson felt he needed to learn more about Baltimore, considering that he worked there…
The White House and GOP Keep Changing Their Story on the Nunes Memo
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes at a March 22, 2017 news conference. Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press)Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans and the White House can’t seem to get their story straight on the controversial but still secret “Nunes memo,” which is said…
FEMA Now Claims It Never Planned to Abandon Puerto Rico
Eliud Echevarria/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. FEMA is not stopping food and water distribution in Puerto Rico, according to an agency spokesperson in San Juan, despite earlier reports that the agency would “officially shut off” such efforts on January 31 and give remaining supplies to…
Researchers Just Found a Hidden Cause of California’s Smog Problem
LPETTET/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Despite its progressive environmental policies, the state of California actually has the worst air quality in the nation, according to a 2017 report from the American Lung Association. More specifically, California’s Central Valley, which produces one third of the country’s vegetables and two thirds…
The Nunes Memo Will Soon Be a Harvard Business School Case Study
byllwill/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You have to give Republicans credit: as political theater, the Nunes memo has been sensational. If Devin Nunes had just written his memo and released it, no one would have cared. Adam Schiff would have gone on TV to denounce it, and by the…