On Tuesday, the news broke that the FBI had arrested Ohio Speaker of the House of Representatives Larry Householder, the architect of HB 6, a law that passed in July 2019. That bill, widely recognized as the worst energy policy in the country, gutted Ohio’s renewables and energy efficiency laws while bailing out several coal…
Night upon night the chant goes up in front of Portland’s federal courthouse: “Whose streets?” The answer depends on the hour of the day. After Donald Trump sent federal agents to take control of a city he said had been abandoned by its mayor to anarchists and mob rule, the protesters still turning out in…
White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) "Why didn’t the White House have this message for all of us two months ago?” MacCallum asks Conway Brad Reed July 22, 2020 6:23PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on Raw Story Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday got an unexpected grilling…
A two-day-old wildfire has grown to 14,000 acres during a red-flag warning in Lassen County. The Gold Fire, which started shortly after noon Monday, was listed at 8,500 acres on Tuesday evening and had burned almost 6,000 more acres by 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Lassen-Modoc unit of the California Department of Forestry and…
As California closed in on an ignominious milestone — preparing to pass New York as the state with the most coronavirus cases in the nation — one of the state’s leading coronavirus experts said it could be more than a month before cases begin to significantly decrease. During a news conference Tuesday, California Health and…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…