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mintpressnews.com - A new study published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet has calculated that a switch to a Medicare for All healthcare system would save the United States over 68,000 lives and over 450 bi…
washingtonpost.com - Acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire is being replaced by Richard Grenell, a vocal ally of President Trump’s. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) By Ellen Nakashima, close Ellen Nak…
apnews.com - A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 76,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the corona…
apnews.com - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian health authorities on Friday reported two more deaths from the new virus that emerged in China and said the fatalities were from among 13 new confirmed cases of the virus …
washingtonpost.com - A disinfection worker wearing protective gear sprays antiseptic solution at a subway station in Seoul on Friday. South Korea reported 52 new cases of the coronavirus bringing its total number of infe…
rollingstone.com - What a catastrophe Wednesday night was for Mike Bloomberg. The New York plutocrat was kicked in the teeth by Elizabeth Warren in the first minutes — she denounced him as a Trump-like “arrogant billio…
washingtonpost.com - Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg prepares onstage before the ninth Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas on Wednesday. (Mike Blake/Reuters) By Michael Scherer, close Michael Scherer Nationa…
theconversation.com - Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg received a lot of flak at the Feb. 19 Democratic debate for his refusal to release employees who sued his company from nondisclosure agree…
thegrayzone.com - A Michael Bloomberg surrogate pumping up the billionaire’s 2020 campaign for president also helped to elect Brazil’s extreme-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, an open supporter of military dictatorship w…
vulture.com - When the president delivers his most unhinged non-sequiturs, it’s a safe bet that he’s at a campaign rally just riffing on whatever. Enter the event he’s at in Colorado today, where Donald Trump appa…
theintercept.com - Eyal Weizman, an Israeli-born British architect who uses visual analysis to investigate war crimes and other forms of state violence, was barred from traveling to the United States this week for an e…
theintercept.com - When Angela Ramirez was 38, she felt a slight pain in her chest. At first she thought she had pulled a muscle, but when it didn’t go away, Ramirez went to her doctor, who diagnosed her with stage 2 b…
projects.fivethirtyeight.com - FiveThirtyEight is using data from Kantar/Campaign Media Analysis Group to show what campaign ads are being aired across the country and how much candidates and outside groups are spending on them. A…
rollingstone.com - That’s what “they” always say about the financial crisis and the teeming rat’s nest of corruption it left behind. Everybody else got plenty of blame: the greed-fattened banks, the sleeping regulators…
washingtonpost.com - By Aaron Blake close Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow February 20, 2020 at 12:24 PM EST Official Washington has been consumed over the past w…
apnews.com - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Iowa caucuses are more than a week away, but millions of Americans are already free to vote. Early voting in the crush of Super Tuesday states that hold primaries on Mar…
novinite.com - Russia and Turkey are on the verge of an armed conflict in the Syrian province of Idlib, according to US Department of Defense official Jonathan Hoffman. At the same time, the Pentagon hopes that dir…
undark.org - Every week, dozens of metal flasks arrive at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, each one loaded with air from a distant corner of the world. Research chemist Ed Dlugokencky…
theintercept.com - Tremors began shaking Puerto Rico just before New Year’s Eve, causing anxiety but only minimally disrupting festivities. On Three Kings Day, January 6, families across the island observed one of its …
newyorker.com - Miller forcefully defended family separation, telling the Times that voters would support the White House “90-10.” In fact, the public was outraged, especially after a recording of small children cry…
oftwominds.com - If you think global demand will rebound as global debt and confidence implode, you better not be making consequential decisions based on Hopium-addled magical thinking. Even before the Covid-19 pande…
undark.org - The revered astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan didn’t just give us “Cosmos,” the 1980 television series that brought the wonders of the universe to the masses. He also co-founded the organ…
theguardian.com - An officer on Australia’s flagship Antarctic icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, was asked by bosses to remove a social media post showing her on deck with a banner critical of Scott Morrison’s climate…
dcreport.org - Trump once again is trying to cut most of the funding to clean up the polluted Chesapeake Bay even as the Trump EPA undermines the cleanup with legal footnotes and inaction. Trump’s latest sabotage, …
nymag.com - In most settings, the president seems to be pretty comfortable throwing out claims that might not hold up upon close examination, but at campaign rallies, he appears to be especially willing to bend …
treehugger.com - Bristol's airport expansion gets cancelled in a shocking act of doing something meaningful to go carbon neutral. The local North Somerset Council in the UK has just rejected the expansion of Bristol …
fair.org - The “cop-hating vandals” poured glue on three turnstiles and “placed large stickers throughout the subway station” (New York Post, 2/5/20). The New York Police Department (NYPD) can generally rely on…
vanityfair.com - If only Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren could have hosted the Golden Globes. Wednesday's contentious Democratic presidential primary debate was watched by 20 million people across NBC and MSNB…
dailydot.com - A mass email sent out to Ukrainians falsely claimed that there were at least five reported cases of coronavirus in Ukraine, leading rioters to attack hospitals and burn blockades on Thursday. The ema…
livescience.com - Did you ever wake up from a long nap feeling a little disoriented, not quite knowing where you were? Now, imagine getting a wake-up call after being "asleep" for 42,000 years. In Siberia, melting per…