Judge Dismisses Trump’s Defamation Suit Against CNN
zz/Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Legal challenges to Donald Trump keep piling up, but despite his best efforts, the former president’s attempts to use the legal system to target his enemies keep coming up short. His latest defeat comes from…
GOP Sen. Tuberville Thinks You’re Complaining Too Much About the Heat
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The extraordinary heat stifling the country—and much of the globe—this summer continued to grind on Saturday, with nearly one-third of Americans under some type of heat advisory or warning. But GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville…
Cities Are Grappling With “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water
Cole Benak collects a water sample. Kaveer Rai/High Country News This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just inside the rolled-up door of a pumphouse garage, Cole Benak pulled on a pair of black Nitrile gloves. Outside, morning sunshine warmed the quiet wooded hillside. From the…
Report: More Than 3 Million People Were Kicked Off of Medicaid in 38 States
Elan Irving/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The damage from the rollback of a key pandemic-era measure that provided healthcare for low-income Americans continues to unfold. Nearly 4 million people are no longer covered by Medicaid, the Washington Post reports, with many of those…
Lawmakers Spoke Up For an Indicted Chinese Mogul. Campaign Cash Followed.
Mother Jones illustration; NFSC; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The New Federal State of China, a conspiracy theory-promoting group launched in 2020 by Steve Bannon and exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui, who the Justice Department has indicted for…
The Clean Energy Transition Is “Vulnerable to Abuse by Malicious Actors”
Adam Nir/Unsplash This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Across the United States, more and more companies are pledging to zero out their greenhouse gas emissions using “voluntary carbon offsets”—credits that represent some amount of climate pollution that’s either prevented or removed from the atmosphere. These credits, bought and…