This is the latest dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who is aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer in Antarctica, investigating the effect of climate change on Thwaites glacier. To scientists in Antarctica, President Trump is weirder than a sea pig. On Tuesday, Trump tweeted a quote from Patrick Moore, …
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About 50 protesters and a throng of reporters gathered Wednesday in front of the Fox News mothership in Midtown Manhattan — oversized banners of Fox & Friends hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade flapping in the background — to rail against the latest batch of vile Tucker Carlson …
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After Election Day, Stacey Abrams briefly considered moving far away from Atlanta. “There was probably a 24-hour period, maybe 48 hours, where I was ready to move to a small island and become a writer full-time,” she says. As the author of eight romance novels, Abrams could have done just …
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Since last fall’s midterm elections, over a dozen Democrats have announced their intention to run for president in 2020. And then there’s John Delaney, who had already been campaigning for well over a year by the time his party regained control of the House. “I tend to be pretty objective …
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“I never expected to win,” says Jahana Hayes, the first African-American woman to represent Connecticut in Congress. “I thought it would be a damn good try, and people would get encouraged, and then the next time someone else would do it.” In fact, when the mother of four and 2016 …
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Update 3 p.m. ET: A federal magistrate ordered Christopher Paul Hasson held in custody for 14 days as the government considers additional charges against him, the Washington Post reports. His public defender classified Wednesday’s filing as a “histrionic mischaracterization of Mr. Hasson.” Original story below. *** The shock begins with …
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Ten Democrats have already announced they will be running for president in 2020. A handful of others have announced exploratory committees, or are expected to announce a run in the coming months. It’s anybody’s guess how many names will ultimately appear on the ballots of caucus and primary voters, but …
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From a snow-covered rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) launched her campaign for president. “If Prince can do a halftime show in all that rain, I can do this in the snow,” Klobuchar, who wore no hat or gloves, joked to the crowd as flakes fell. “We are …
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Paul Erickson, the GOP operative and longtime boyfriend of criminal Russian national Maria Butina, has been indicted on 11 counts of federal wire fraud and money laundering, for what the U.S. Attorney’s office in South Dakota describes as a two-decade scheme to “defraud” investors and “personally enrich Erickson.” Each count …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Updatehosts Colin Jost and Michael Che opened their segment by mocking the president for ending the shutdown without getting funding for his beloved wall and caving to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “It’s pretty clear that Trump has not figured out how to deal with Nancy Pelosi …
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