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Judge in Maria Butina Case Rips Prosecutors Who Claimed She Offered Sex to Get a Job

Published 2018-09-10 22:44:57 UTC

Quiz: Which Has Gone Up More, Dog Food or Cat Food?

Published 2018-09-10 21:54:29 UTC

Hurricane Florence Could Be the Most Powerful Storm to Hit the East Coast in 14 Years

Published 2018-09-10 21:23:37 UTC

Gov. Jerry Brown Just Ensured All California’s Electricity Will Be Emissions-Free By 2045

Published 2018-09-10 20:34:46 UTC

This Ad Tells You Everything You Need to Know About the 2018 Elections

Published 2018-09-10 20:29:17 UTC

Lunchtime Photo

Published 2018-09-10 19:30:18 UTC

Trump Attacks Woodward by Citing Interview on Cable Channel Known for Conspiracy Theories

Published 2018-09-10 17:46:45 UTC

Killing an Executive Order Is Harder Than You Think

Published 2018-09-10 14:59:28 UTC

The Militant Wing of the Anti-Abortion Movement Is Back—And It’s Never Been Closer to Victory

Published 2018-09-10 10:00:22 UTC

With His Electric Guitar and Rueful Vocals, Richard Thompson Rages In His Latest Album

Published 2018-09-10 10:00:16 UTC

National Park Officials Scrubbed Climate Change From Key Report

Published 2018-09-11 10:00:54 UTC

Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals

Published 2018-09-11 10:00:39 UTC

In Chicago Mayor’s Race, Rahm Emanuel’s Exit Makes Room for Powerful Women of Color

Published 2018-09-11 10:00:12 UTC

The Case for Giving Pregnant Women More Drugs

Published 2018-09-11 10:00:01 UTC

Trump Diehards Always Say You Can’t Know His Thoughts. We Disagree. Here They Are.

Published 2018-09-11 16:17:39 UTC

Robots are Making More and More of Your Food

Published 2018-09-11 16:37:00 UTC

Methane Is a Terrible Green House Gas. Naturally Trump Wants to Release More of It

Published 2018-09-11 17:57:23 UTC

Republicans Are On Track to Lose 50 Seats

Published 2018-09-11 17:39:33 UTC

Progressives Raise More Than $1 Million to Defeat Susan Collins—If She Votes to Confirm Kavanaugh

Published 2018-09-11 18:07:53 UTC

Health Update

Published 2018-09-11 18:06:35 UTC

Dear NRA: Putting KKK Hoods on Beloved Childhood Characters Probably Isn’t the Best Strategy

Published 2018-09-11 20:44:16 UTC

Trump’s Latest Attack on the FBI Is Probably Bogus

Published 2018-09-11 22:08:30 UTC

Trump Claims Hurricane Maria Response Was “One of Best Jobs That’s Ever Been Done”

Published 2018-09-11 23:03:21 UTC

Thousands of Prisoners Are Being Forced to Stay During Hurricane Florence

Published 2018-09-11 23:08:56 UTC

Democrats Are Giving Up on Compromise

Published 2018-09-12 00:39:03 UTC

After Fleeing Hurricane Maria, This Baker is Bringing a Taste of Home to Massachusetts

Published 2018-09-12 13:00:48 UTC

Undaunted by Trump, Thousands of Climate Activists Are Meeting to Plan Their Next Move

Published 2018-09-12 10:00:52 UTC

The First Dreamer to Run for Office in New York Has a Message for Donald Trump

Published 2018-09-12 10:00:36 UTC

Why North Carolina Won’t Evacuate Its Beloved Wild Horses During the Hurricane

Published 2018-09-12 10:00:25 UTC

FEMA is About to Get Slammed by Florence

Published 2018-09-12 10:00:19 UTC

Ted Cruz Jokes to Oil Lobbyists About Eating Someone’s Son

Published 2018-09-12 14:35:12 UTC

As Hurricane Florence Approaches, Trump Brags About Maria Response and Attacks San Juan Mayor

Published 2018-09-12 14:21:03 UTC

Average Household Income Was Up 1.8 Percent Last Year

Published 2018-09-12 15:56:04 UTC

Meanwhile in Russia: Lawmakers Ponder Allowing Citizens to Duel to the Death

Published 2018-09-12 15:54:32 UTC

The Economy Is Doing Well, But Ordinary People Not So Much

Published 2018-09-12 16:39:57 UTC

Republicans are Freaking out that Ted Cruz May Actually Lose—and this New Poll Is Only Going to Make It Worse

Published 2018-09-12 17:11:54 UTC

6 Years Ago, North Carolina Chose to Ignore Rising Sea Levels. This Week It Braces for Disaster.

Published 2018-09-12 17:49:05 UTC

Tennis Umpires Are Pretty Unhappy About Serena Williams

Published 2018-09-12 18:04:30 UTC

Eric Trump Sounds Pretty Anti-Semitic Talking About Bob Woodward’s New Book

Published 2018-09-12 18:22:50 UTC

The New Head of Planned Parenthood Is a 35-Year-Old Immigrant Doctor

Published 2018-09-12 19:25:20 UTC

Paul Manafort Tried to Pressure “Obama Jews” to Help His Secret Lobbying Campaign for Ukraine

Published 2018-09-14 15:49:32 UTC

Earnings of the Poor Are Stuck on Nuthin’

Published 2018-09-14 15:28:20 UTC

This Nuclear Power Plant Is Designed Like Fukushima—and Florence Is Heading Straight for It

Published 2018-09-14 10:08:29 UTC

The Russian Hacking of 2016 Was Just a Taste. Here’s What We Could Be In For.

Published 2018-09-14 10:00:59 UTC

The Most Effective Way for Democrats to Fight Trump’s Agenda Isn’t Where You Think It Is

Published 2018-09-14 10:00:55 UTC

Climate Summit Protesters Want Policies That Don’t Leave Marginalized Groups Behind

Published 2018-09-14 10:00:28 UTC

Cynthia Nixon Just Gave a Defiant Concession Speech Following Loss in New York Governor’s Primary

Published 2018-09-14 03:09:11 UTC

At Least 39 Homes Just Exploded or Caught Fire in Massachusetts. The Photos Are Devastating.

Published 2018-09-13 23:53:57 UTC

The Biggest Marine Corps Base on the East Coast Is Right in Florence’s Path—and Won’t Evacuate

Published 2018-09-13 21:45:16 UTC

The Private Intelligence Firm Keeping Tabs on Environmentalists

Published 2018-09-14 16:01:50 UTC

Chicago Is 31 Percent Black, but There’s Only One Black Juror at This Chicago Cop’s Murder Trial

Published 2018-09-14 10:00:05 UTC

Why the Biggest Story of Last Night’s Election Wasn’t Andrew Cuomo

Published 2018-09-14 16:45:02 UTC

You’ll Want to Blast This Defiant Late-Summer Anthem All Weekend

Published 2018-09-14 18:29:39 UTC

Paul Manafort Will Give Robert Mueller “Complete Cooperation,” His Attorney Says

Published 2018-09-14 20:22:12 UTC

Hurricane Florence Is Absolutely Soaking the Carolinas—and It’s a Harbinger of Storms to Come

Published 2018-09-14 20:00:38 UTC

Friday Cat Blogging – 14 September 2018

Published 2018-09-14 19:00:28 UTC

The Key to Saving the Planet Could Be This Middle-School Math Concept

Published 2018-09-14 20:35:27 UTC

Almost Live From New York: The Robots Are Coming to Take Your Jobs Away!

Published 2018-09-14 21:48:49 UTC

Concession by the Trump Administration Caps Off a Big Legal Victory for Separated Families

Published 2018-09-14 22:01:47 UTC

Mississippi Senate Candidate to African Americans: Stop “Begging for Federal Government Scraps”

Published 2018-09-15 00:26:05 UTC

Tons of Promises Were Made at Jerry Brown’s Climate Summit, But Only One Requires Rockets

Published 2018-09-15 02:49:07 UTC

Donald Trump Can’t Stop Attacking Puerto Rico’s Death Toll

Published 2018-09-15 12:59:19 UTC

North Carolina Towns Still Recovering From Hurricane Matthew Now Have to Deal With Florence

Published 2018-09-15 10:00:29 UTC

Verizon Leaves Lobbying Group ALEC Over Ties to Anti-Muslim Activist

Published 2018-09-15 17:09:33 UTC

Brett Kavanaugh’s High School Friend Isn’t Helping the Nominee’s Case

Published 2018-09-15 18:13:37 UTC

This Major Republican Donor Just Renounced the GOP

Published 2018-09-15 19:28:49 UTC

Watch John Kerry Blast Donald Trump: “He’s Got the Maturity of an 8-Year-Old Boy”

Published 2018-09-15 20:27:07 UTC

Texas Cops Just Arrested an Alleged Serial Killer. He’s a Border Patrol Supervisor.

Published 2018-09-15 21:46:08 UTC

Many Evangelicals Swear Climate Change Isn’t Real. Meet the Christian Scientist Proving Them Wrong.

Published 2018-09-16 10:00:58 UTC

A South Carolina Ghost Called the Gray Man Has Been Predicting Hurricanes for Generations

Published 2018-09-16 10:00:19 UTC

FEMA Boss Backs Trump’s Puerto Rico Death Denials: “I Don’t Know Why the Studies Were Done.”

Published 2018-09-16 16:37:00 UTC

Russian Cyberwarfare Is Much Worse Than You Think. Donald Trump’s Indifference to It Is Much More Criminal Than You Think.

Published 2018-09-16 18:16:10 UTC

Christine Blasey Ford Goes Public With Allegation that Brett Kavanaugh Tried to Rape Her in High School

Published 2018-09-16 18:34:32 UTC

“He Was Trying To Attack Me.” Kavanaugh Accuser Details Sexual Assault Allegations to Washington Post

Published 2018-09-16 18:30:20 UTC

Feinstein Calls for Kavanaugh Hearings To Stop While FBI Investigates Sexual Assault

Published 2018-09-16 19:50:35 UTC

This Exhilarating Video of a Rare “Triple Whale Breach” Is a Real Nice Break from Everything

Published 2018-09-16 20:48:35 UTC

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Kavanaugh’s Accuser: “I Would Gladly Listen to What She Has to Say”

Published 2018-09-16 22:15:28 UTC

Experts Say New Data in the Opioid Crisis Could Offer a Glimmer of Hope

Published 2018-09-16 23:10:46 UTC

Here’s What Needs to Happen in the Brett Kavanaugh Case

Published 2018-09-17 02:26:08 UTC

Potential Insurance Bill From Hurricane Florence Could Take Toll on Wallets Far From North Carolina’s Coast

Published 2018-09-17 10:00:51 UTC

Sarah Smarsh Can Tell You Everything You Need to Know About America’s Working Class

Published 2018-09-17 10:00:45 UTC

The World Has Never Seen Anything Like What’s Happening at the Equator Right Now

Published 2018-09-17 10:00:23 UTC

“The Crossing” Is a Relentlessly Inventive Album

Published 2018-09-17 10:00:14 UTC

White House Stands by Kavanaugh as Accuser Says She’s Willing to Testify

Published 2018-09-17 13:06:27 UTC

Religion and Racism Still Go Hand-in-Hand In the GOP

Published 2018-09-17 16:00:46 UTC

Research Request: Is Lead Poisoning Associated With Obesity?

Published 2018-09-17 16:51:54 UTC

Brett Kavanaugh Gave a Speech About Binge Drinking in Law School

Published 2018-09-17 17:26:36 UTC

Donald Trump Jr. Mocked Kavanaugh’s Accuser. It’s Not the First Time He Thought Sexual Assault Was Funny.

Published 2018-09-17 19:01:17 UTC

Trump Stands by Kavanaugh: “One of the Finest People”

Published 2018-09-17 20:05:01 UTC

Ted Cruz Wants to Avoid Rush to Judgment on Cop Who Broke Into Apartment and Killed Neighbor

Published 2018-09-17 19:39:55 UTC

Heidi Heitkamp’s Latest Campaign Ad Targets Farmers Caught in Trump’s Trade War

Published 2018-09-17 19:25:58 UTC

The Senate Just Passed a Sweeping Opioid Bill. It’s Still Not Nearly Enough.

Published 2018-09-17 23:13:58 UTC

Trump Administration Cuts Refugee Limit to Lowest Level on Record for Second Year in a Row

Published 2018-09-17 23:04:59 UTC

Rip Van Kevin Wakes Up and Surveys the Day

Published 2018-09-18 03:50:34 UTC

Judge Says Georgia’s “Vulnerable” Voting System May Be Unconstitutional but Can Stay Through Midterms

Published 2018-09-18 14:38:27 UTC

The Gullah-Geechee People Called Carolina’s Coast Home for Centuries. Then Florence Came.

Published 2018-09-18 10:00:59 UTC

America’s Best-Documented Undocumented Immigrant Just Published His Memoir

Published 2018-09-18 10:00:40 UTC

Hurricane Florence’s Slow-Motion Assault Devastates Small Communities

Published 2018-09-18 10:00:08 UTC

Political Extremists Are Using YouTube to Monetize Their Toxic Ideas

Published 2018-09-18 16:12:28 UTC

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