Russia Bombs Maternity Hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine Claims
Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Ukrainian officials accused Russia of destroying a maternity and children’s hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, even after both sides had agreed to a tentative ceasefire to allow civilians to escape. Victims, including…
This GOP Candidate Is the Son of a Senator and a Lobbyist. He’s Running Against the “Elites.”
Brian Cahn/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In a speech at last month’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Nevada Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt offered an unusual theory about the biggest news story in the world. The Russian invasion of Ukraine,…
How Greece Secretly Adopted the World’s Most Brazen—and Brutal—Way of Keeping Out Refugees
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was a clear spring morning on the Greek island of Chios, and the waves pummeled the shoreline, whipping the Aegean into a froth. Antonis Bourmas’ house clung to the edge of a rocky point that faced…
EPA Prepares to Approve Bee-Killing Pesticides for 15 More Years
Preston Keres/ Zuma. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to allow the use of four of the most devastating chemicals to bees, butterflies and other insects to continue in America for the next 15 years, despite moves by…
Report: Mark Meadows Registered to Vote Somewhere He Might Not Have Lived
Former Donald Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. In his memoir, The Chief’s Chief, published almost a year into Joe Biden’s presidency, Mark Meadows voiced concern about voter fraud, heavily implying that it had…
Guilty: Jury Convicts Insurrectionist in First January 6 Trial
Courtroom sketch of Guy Wesley Reffitt, joined by his lawyer William Welch, right, in federal court, in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022Dana Verkouteren/San Francisco Chronicle via AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The first criminal trial of a January 6 insurrectionist has…