To avoid another government shutdown, Congress must pass a short-term spending bill by midnight tonight. The Senate is expected to approve a bipartisan deal today that includes military budget increases and an additional CHIP funding extension—but, notably, no DACA protections. 1/23 The bipartisan bill’s passage is
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Senate leaders say they’re close to brokering a two-year budget deal. Meanwhile, the President tells the Defense Department he wants a military parade. 1/19 About 4,000 former Trump University students should begin to receive payments from a $25 million settlement. 2/19 The President's
Tomato plants defend themselves by emitting a chemical that hungry herbivores find toxic, unappealing, or difficult to digest. Scientists recently learned it also makes catepillars prefer to eat each other, if ever so slowly. The caterpillars gave up on the tomato leaves early. And like desperate characters in a cartoon
The new Ram Trucks ad that uses Dr. Martin Luther King for its spokesman? In case you haven't seen it, here's a video that demonstrates what King really thought about car commercials. Now the presence of this instinct explains why we are so often taken by
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 less enthusiastic than Mr. Trump about the Nunes memo, possibly because the last paragraph undermines the Right’s Trump-Russia conspiracy theory. Here's an annotated version. 1/21 Former Director of the FBI Comey on the memo: “That’s it?” 2/21 Being in Congress
One highlight reel that the NFL does not want you to see: 281 concussions from this year's preseason to today—the most since the league started keeping track six years ago. From The Intercept: It’s not a headache. It’s not “getting your bell rung.” You don’
This morning at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., Phil the groundhog saw his shadow, prognosticating six more weeks of winter. 1/19 Punxsutawney Phil is less accurate than a coin flip in predicting the end of winter. 2/19 Every Feb. 2, Woodstock, Ill., where Groundhog Day was
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&
