Impeachment Trump's racist tweets have created a new impeachment problemAxios - Alexi McCammond President Trump's racist tweets had an unintended consequence: They gave House Democrats a new rationale for impeachment. Why it matters: This has the …
Climate June was the warmest June ever recorded, but there's a bigger problemMashable - Mark KaufmanIn 139 years of record-keeping, this June was the warmest June ever recorded. But June 2019 also revealed a deeper warming reality. The first half of 2019, January through June, finished up as the second
Syria What Right Has Britain to Seize an Iranian Tanker Off Spain?counterpunch.org - Gary Leupp Photograph Source: Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden – CC BY 2.0“We have reason to believe that the Grace 1 was carrying its shipment of crude oil to …
Area 51 The US Air Force Has a Warning For The 1.1 Million People Wanting to Storm Area 51ScienceAlert - MICHAEL BRICE-SADDLER Should everything go according to plan, more than 1.1 million strangers will gather in a remote Nevada town in mid-September, united by a common …
World News Permafrost thaw sparks fear of 'gold rush' for mammoth ivoryThe Guardian - Andrew Roth in MoscowActivists and officials in northern Russia have warned of a “gold rush” for mammoth ivory as prospectors dig up tusks and other woolly mammoth remains that can net a small fortune on the rapacious Chinese
The Future Futurist who predicted 9/11 and GFC reveals ‘craziest’ predictionnews.com.au Chillingly, within the next three years, a popular world leader will be assassinated using autonomous drone technology, sparking an international …
Nancy Pelosi Amid 'race card' allegations, Pelosi teaches Ocasio-Cortez a math lessonNBC News - Jonathan AllenAnalysis: The more the New York lawmaker lashes out over the limits of her own influence, the more obvious those limits become — and the more the imbalance of power tilts in the speaker's direction. WASHINGTON
One of the Worst Earthquakes in Korea's History Was Caused by HumansPopular Mechanics - By Avery ThompsonAn investigation finds that a geothermal plant near the city of Pohang triggered a magnitude 5.5 earthquake. In 2017, South Korea suffered the second-worst earthquake in its history, and a recent investigations
Play buttonDeepfakes Deepfakes, or Fake-News Videos, Could Influence 2020 ElectionThe Atlantic - Elyse Kelly“We are crossing over into an era where we have to be skeptical of what we see on video,” says John Villasenor, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Villasenor is talking about deepfakes—videos
House Freedom Caucus Pelosi's Overhyped Feud With Alexandria Ocasio-CortezThe Atlantic - David A. GrahamThere’s not as much disagreement between the speaker and the left flank of her caucus as their spat suggests. “With all due respect, the press likes to make a story that is more about Democrats divided
DNA Why Don’t Police Catch Serial Rapists?The Atlantic - Barbara Bradley HagertyWhat new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them This article is part of our project “The Presence of Justice,” which is supported by a grant from the John D. and Catherine
Turkey The rift in the relationship between the U.S. and Turkey may be permanentNBC News - Dan De LuceAnalysis: U.S. officials say Turkey is no longer a reliable NATO ally. The Erdogan government's receipt of a Russian air defense system is a turning point. WASHINGTON — Turkey's decision to ignore U.S.
Stephen King Stephen King's Prediction for the Trump Administration Is More Terrifying Than Any of His BooksEsquire - By Gabrielle BruneyThe horror author responded to the president's shameful behavior on Sunday. On Sunday, the president went on a hateful twitter tirade against congresswomen of color, his latest openly racist statements
Border Patrol Official Circulates Article That Deems Our Reporting on Secret Facebook Group a Threatpropublica.org - ProPublica An official who directs a Border Patrol intelligence gathering center sent the article to all top intelligence officials and field offices. The …
Jeffrey Epstein Barr's links to Jeffrey Epstein get messierdailykos.com - subir U.S. attorney general Bill Barr will not recuse himself in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking and conspiracy case, despite Barr’s previous assurance …
Jeffrey Epstein Acosta’s Sweetheart Deal Likely to Foreclose Epstein’s SDNY ProsecutionNational Review - Andrew C. McCarthy Double-jeopardy rules almost certainly prohibit settling a federal case and then prosecuting it again in federal court. Alex Acosta did a bad job on …
U.S. Politics Threat of immigration raids brings fears across U.S.pbs.org - PBS NewsHour Good evening and thank you for joining us this Sunday, July 14. I'm Hari Sreenivasan. We're on the road here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In exactly one …
Politics Trump Attacks Congresswomen With White Nationalist RhetoricNew York Magazine - Chas Danner President Trump launched a white nationalist–themed attack on Sunday against four Democratic congresswomen of color who have been outspoken critics …
Liberal View Florida's Poll Tax Is as Immoral as It Is Costlytruthdig.com - Staff The poll tax Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just signed into law may cost his state $365 million a year — indefinitely. DeSantis and the GOP-led …
Human Rights Trump makes US a hypocrite on human rightsCNN - By Samantha Vinograd(CNN) — While the President and Vice President refuse to take any ownership for the inhumane conditions at facilities that they are responsible for, other countries are probably recalibrating their views
F-35 Security Breach? This Chinese Company Produces Key Parts of the F-35nationalinterest.org Concern that a Chinese-owned company is producing any parts for the F-35 program, because of long-standing fears about Chinese espionage and rivalry …
Fred Trump Son, husband of immigrants tells U.S.-born political opponents to ‘go back’ to where they came fromThe Washington Post - By Philip BumpShortly before heading to a golf club that his company owns on Sunday morning, President Trump lashed out at a group of Democratic lawmakers on Twitter. Injecting himself into a feud between liberal Democrats
Trump Tower“You Crossed the Rubicon...There’s No Going Back”: Karl Rove, Kellyanne Conway, and the Odd Couple Marriage Between MikeVanity Fair - Tim AlbertaHe didn’t like Rove (Trump: “I’ll win New York”; Rove: “No, you won’t”). Conway had worked for “Lyin’ Ted Cruz.” And Pence was a choirboy, albeit a hyper-ambitious one. How they gamed Trump into making
Area 51 These 6 memes illustrate why storming Area 51 is a terrible ideaCNN - By Leah Asmelash and Nadeem Muaddi, CNN(CNN) — Ready to risk your life to see some aliens? Great! So are more than 600,000 other people. A satirical Facebook event titled "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" is asking people to gather
Liberal View Liberals hilariously Twitter-troll hypocritical rightwing ‘Christians’ with #ThingsJesusNeverSaidrawstory.com - Matthew Chapman Efforts by far-right extremists to politicize Christianity were ruthlessly ridiculed on Saturday as “Things Jesus Never Said” trended nationwide on …
Census No, Obama didn’t remove the citizenship question from the censusThe Washington Post - By Philip BumpConservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh appeared on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” Friday morning — an appearance that earned a plug from one of the network’s most enthusiastic viewers, President Trump.
Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein: how US media – with one star exception – whitewashed the storyGuardian US - Ed PilkingtonSomebody’s going to call your publisher and the next thing you know you are going to be assigned to obituaries Michael Reiter I asked the women what they were going to do and they said they would lick
NASA A Massive Hunk Of Ice Will Reshape The World's Coastlines Sooner Than We ThoughtForbes - Eric MackGlobal mean sea level has risen by about eight inches (20 cm) since 1900, with three of those inches coming in the last quarter century and coastal flooding becoming more common as result. But a huge of
Border Patrol Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost Was a Member of Secret Facebook GroupThe Intercept - Ryan Devereaux When news broke that thousands of current and former Border Patrol agents were members of a secret Facebook group filled with racist, vulgar, and …
