The East Coast Is About to Get Hit by a “Bomb Cyclone”
Sub-zero temperatures are expected across the northeastern United States.Vianney Le Caer/REX/Shutterstock/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Much of the eastern United States has been assaulted by brutally cold temperatures over the last week. New Year’s Eve revelers in New York City rang in 2018 in 9 degree weather—the coldest midnight…
NATO Defense Spending Started Increasing Three Years Ago
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Susan Glasser has a long piece in Politico today about Donald Trump’s foreign policy, and it’s about what you’d expect: pretty much everyone overseas thinks Trump is dumb, ignorant, and vain. They’ve responded in various ways: opportunistically when Trump is on their side (Israel, Saudi…
Australian Ambassador Told FBI About Trump Campaign Connection With Russia
Australian ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey.Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the weekend the New York Times ran a story about the event that first sparked the FBI investigation of Donald Trump’s connection to Russia during the 2016 campaign. It turns out that campaign advisor…
Welfare “Reform” Might Be the Next Big Republican Push
Monica Winston adjusts to her tent in a tent city set up in San Diego. A Hepatitis A outbreak is one of the reasons the tent city was created.John Gastaldo via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In theory, the budget reconciliation process was intended to be used for passing…
Sick. Uninsured. And Begging the Internet for a Lifeline.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days after receiving a diagnosis of stage 4 breast cancer, Marisa Rahdar had to figure out how to beg for her life. “I didn’t want to do it at all,” she recalls. Rahdar is a 32-year-old bartender from Detroit, and she has insurance. Her brother,…
Shhhh. The “Gene Silenced” Apple Is Coming.
A conventional apple vs. the Arctic Apple on the right.Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Arctic Golden apple, the first genetically modified apple available to consumers, is making its way to grocery store shelves. I’m an apple loyalist—I pack one as an after-lunch snack nearly every day…