The 2018 Winter Olympics have begun. Here’s a story about the unified flag marched under by North and South Korea. The US government briefly shut down again last night after Kentucky’s junior senator drew attention to the GOP’s hypocrisy on deficit spending—but the deal was never
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. The bipartisan bill’s passage is less certain
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. About 4,000 former Trump University students should begin to receive payments from a $25 million settlement. The President's advisors may advise going
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
