Markets were choppy this morning after the past two days of declines on Wall Street and abroad. One very good (or awful, depending) reason: The global economy is strong, so banks don't need to stimulate growth, which means interest rates are likely to increase (including for corporations), as
John Kelly was reportedly less enthusiastic than Mr. Trump about releasing the Nunes memo, possibly because the last paragraph undermines the Right’s Trump-Russia conspiracy theory. Comey on the memo: “That’s it?” Being in Congress these days is less about policy, and definitely less fun. That’s bad
This morning at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., Phil the groundhog saw his shadow, prognosticating six more weeks of winter. Punxsutawney Phil is less accurate than a coin flip in predicting the end of winter. Every Feb. 2, Woodstock, Ill., where Groundhog Day was filmed, celebrates the movie
If we’re being honest, the month of January felt like an entire year of news in 31 days. So rather than bring you this morning’s dump of headlines about the GOP/FBI memo, here are three of our favorite thought-provoking articles about the bigger story: 1) “Trump&
FEMA blindsides Puerto Rico by announcing that, as of today, its food and water shipments to the island will cease, citing the recovery of the commercial supply chain. At current rates of depletion, Cape Town will turn off water taps in April—exacerbating socioeconomic divides. The director of the CDC
Republicans vote to release a secret Republican memo about the FBI—though not a secret Democrat memo—no matter that the Justice Department says releasing it is "extraordinarily reckless." A Taliban suicide bomber used ambulances to kill over 100 people in the worst attack in Kabul in months.
This year's flu is the worst since 2009—and hospitalizations just jumped, which likely means deaths will increase. Scientists now posit Earth's first eon, the Hadean—thought to be "dark and hellish"—may still have supported life. To aid astronauts on Mars, lest they
President Trump ordered special counsel Robert Mueller fired back in June, but he backpedaled after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign. Here are five takeaways from the Mueller-firing news and lots of Beltway Twitter chatter. “There are good reasons to be critical of how Comey handled the
Trump sends mixed signals to the nearly 700,000 Dreamers, saying he would be open to citizenship after "10 to 12 years," just days after killing a bipartisan plan—in his "shithole" meeting—that offered a path to citizenship. Dara Lind on Twitter: "It is
The government shutdown only broke because Senators had to wait their turn to hold Susan Collins's "talking stick." Democrats fail at Republican tactics—like government shutdowns—because they don't hate the government sufficiently. Illinois’s Sen. Duckworth says she’s expecting her second child
