Trump’s First 100 Days Have Unleashed an “All-Out Assault” on the Environment

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One hundred days into the second Trump administration, many environmentalists’ worst fears about the new presidency have been realized—and surpassed.  Facing a spate of orders, pronouncements and actions that target America’s most cherished natural resources and most vulnerable […]
Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Marianne Lavelle, Wyatt Myskow, and Dennis Pillion

Mark Carney, Canada’s Newly Elected PM, Has a Very Squishy Climate Plan

1 day 1 hour ago
This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s plan to address climate change is something of a Rorschach test, with the platform laying out a vision that can be interpreted in contradictory ways. The platform includes commitments to advance major “nation-building” projects […]
John Woodside

“A Mockery of Due Process”: The Men Who Could Be Sent to El Salvador Next

1 day 3 hours ago
As the bus drove away from the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, in Anson, Texas, on April 18, Stiven Prieto Viera feared he was headed to El Salvador. Prieto, a Venezuelan barber detained last month by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, knew that the Trump administration had already sent hundreds of his compatriots to that country’s infamous […]
Noah Lanard And Isabela Dias

Mohsen Mahdawi Has Been Released from Federal Custody

1 day 3 hours ago
Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian student at Columbia University who was arrested on April 14 at his naturalization interview in Vermont, was released on bail from federal custody on Wednesday. He is the first student to be released in the Trump administration’s widening crackdown on foreign students and academics who have been involved in Palestine advocacy […]
Sophie Hurwitz

How Public Schools Became Ground Zero for America’s Culture Wars

1 day 6 hours ago
Mike Hixenbaugh first knew things had changed when someone on a four-wheeler started ripping up his lawn after his wife placed a Black Lives Matter sign outside their home on the suburban outskirts of Houston. Hixenbaugh is an award-winning investigative reporter for NBC News. He’s covered wrongdoing within the child welfare system, safety lapses inside […]
Reveal

How Inequality Killed California’s Bohemian Floating Refuge

1 day 10 hours ago
The first anchor-outs are thought to have settled in abandoned boats bobbing in Marin County’s Richardson Bay after nearby San Francisco’s famous earthquake and fires of 1906. Over the next century or so, the community drew artists and bohemians; mariners looking for a long-term anchorage (sanctuary for those at sea); and, increasingly after the 2008 […]
Maddie Oatman

Trump’s Attack on ActBlue’s “Dark Money” Was Backed by Elon Musk’s Dark Money

2 days 1 hour ago
President Donald Trump last week told the Justice Department to investigate Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue and claimed in a fact sheet that the order was aimed at “foreign contributions in American elections.” Republicans quickly touted the order as cracking down on hidden sources of funds in US elections. “The Democrats’ Dark Money scam has gone […]
Dan Friedman and Russ Choma

Facing Corruption Allegations, Albanian Opposition Leader Hires Trump-Linked Lobbying Team

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Sali Berisha—the allegedly corrupt leader of Albania’s opposition party—wants help from Donald Trump. And Berisha, or someone backing him, is paying big bucks to get it. Berisha is seeking removal of a “persona non grata” designation imposed by the US government because of what the Biden-era State Department said was his involvement in “corrupt acts.” […]
Dan Friedman

Mistakes Were Made. And Made. And Made Again.

2 days 6 hours ago
What will you remember about Donald Trump’s second first 100 days? Probably the cruelty and arrogance of the people in charge, and the fecklessness of so many institutions that were supposed to fight back. Maybe the image of the world’s richest men, and some of their wives, sitting obediently in front of the president’s Cabinet […]
Tim Murphy

These 10 Charts Prove Clean Energy Is Winning Despite Donald Trump’s Efforts

2 days 10 hours ago
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At every light switch, power socket, and on the road, an unstoppable revolution is already underway. Technologies that can power our lives and jobs while doing less harm to the global climate—wind, solar, batteries, etc.—are getting cheaper, more efficient, and […]
Umair Irfan, Benji Jones, Adam Clark Estes, and Sam Delgado

Florida Man Loses Canadian Election

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Preliminary results projected by CBC in Canada’s snap federal election, which took place Monday, suggest that the country’s Liberal Party—which is currently in power—will win enough seats in the Canadian parliament to allow party leader Mark Carney to remain Prime Minister, though it remains unclear whether with a majority or minority government. In some ways, […]
Julia Métraux

Trump Ramps Up His Unpopular Immigration Crackdown

3 days 2 hours ago
President Donald Trump is continuing to prioritize his anti-immigration agenda despite multiple polls in recent days showing that most Americans disapprove of it. On Monday, the White House announced that Trump will sign two executive orders, one directing Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to draw up a list of […]
Julianne McShane

Trump’s Poll Numbers Are Historically Awful

4 days 5 hours ago
So much for winning. New polls show that President Donald Trump’s approval rating has hit record lows as he nears the 100-day mark of his second term on Tuesday. An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that Trump has the lowest 100-day approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with only 39 percent […]
Julianne McShane

In Louisiana, a Judge Just Vacated a Controversial Death Row Case

4 days 8 hours ago
This article was first published by Bolts, as part of a collaboration with Mother Jones. Jimmie Christian Duncan has spent over 26 years on death row at Louisiana’s Angola prison for the rape and murder of his girlfriend’s toddler daughter—a crime he has always maintained never happened. On Thursday, a Louisiana judge dismissed his conviction, vindicating Duncan’s fierce, […]
Piper French

A Small School District Blew Experts Away With Reading Scores—Until Ohio Passed a New Law

5 days 2 hours ago
In Steubenville, Ohio, many students are considered to be economically disadvantaged. But unlike some similar towns and cities across the United States, standardized testing doesn’t strike fear among members of the school board, principals, and superintendent. That’s because for the past two decades, 93 percent or more of students in Steubenville’s public schools have scored […]
Reveal

Trump’s Latest Deportation Tear Includes a 2-Year-Old and a Kid With Cancer

5 days 3 hours ago
On Friday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in New Orleans deported members of two families, including young children and a pregnant mother, under circumstances that have raised serious due process concerns. Among those deported were three children who are US citizens, including a two-year-old who was born in New Orleans and a child […]
Julia Métraux

Trump Just Fast-Tracked Deep Sea Mining, Despite Global Opposition

5 days 10 hours ago
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump wants federal agencies to fast-track applications for deep-sea mining in an effort to make the United States a global leader in the nascent industry.  Trump issued an executive order Thursday declaring that US policy includes “creating a […]
Anita Hofschneider

Ed Martin Isn’t Coming Clean About His Ties to an Alleged Nazi Sympathizer

6 days 2 hours ago
Ed Martin, the far-right activist–turned–acting US attorney for DC, apologized this week for praising an alleged Nazi sympathizer at an event last year. But Martin’s ties to Timothy Hale-Cusanelli—who is known for wearing a Hitler-style mustache and who once allegedly told a co-worker that the Nazis “should have finished the job”—are far more extensive than just […]
Dan Friedman

FBI Arrests Judge, in Dangerous Escalation of Immigration Enforcement

6 days 3 hours ago
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was charged with two felonies after being arrested by federal officers early Friday morning for allegedly helping a man without legal immigration status avoid arrest while in her courtroom on April 18. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Dugan helped direct an undocumented immigrant through a side door in her courtroom […]
Alex Nguyen
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