Rolling Stone is pleased to announce the rules for the… wait, which Democratic Party presidential debate is this? The fourth? Fifth? Fiftieth? Has the field grown or shrunk since last time? If I “strangle myself” like Jeffrey Epstein, will I still have to hear about it? Is there any way …
Read More »Four Things We Learned at Tuesday's Trump Impeachment Hearings
WASHINGTON —With each witness, the House impeachment investigation moves closer to the president and the July 25th call between Trump and Ukraine‘s new president in which Trump asked the Ukrainians to investigate the Bidens and a debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 presidential election. Four witnesses testified before the House …
Read More »Uber CEO on Saudi Arabia's Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi: 'People Make Mistakes'
In a new interview with Axios, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi described Saudi Arabia‘s assassination of Washington Post journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi as a “mistake,” likening it to his company’s misfires with self-driving cars. “I think that government said they made a mistake,” he said when asked whether Yasir …
Read More »Fox News Poll: 49% of Voters Want Trump Impeached and Removed From Office
President Donald Trump received bad polling news on Sunday, with a Fox News poll and NBC/WSJ both showing that 49 percent of voters want him impeached and removed from office. Not surprisingly, the president dismissed the results saying that he has “the real polls” and that all others are “fake” …
Read More »Chicago Teachers Union Reaches Deal to End 11-Day Strike
The Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement with the city on Thursday that will bring an end to a 11-day strike that kept more than 300,000 children out of school. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the agreement after a closed-door meeting with CTU brass. “In the interest of our …
Read More »House Republicans Ratf-k Impeachment Hearing in Reckless Bid to Please Trump
The day after damaging testimony from a former top U.S. diplomat undermined President Trump’s claim that there was no quid pro quo in the administration’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine while demanding an investigation into Trump’s political opponents, a mob of House Republicans stormed a secure congressional chamber …
Read More »State Department Clinton Email Probe Finds No 'Systemic Mishandling of Classified Information'
Despite breathless reporting and countless headlines throughout the 2016 campaign about Hillary Clinton‘s alleged mishandling of classified information through her use of a private email server, the State Department probe into the matter found no systemic mishandling of classified information by the former secretary of state’s staff. The unclassified report …
Read More »The Biden Paradox
Listen to this story below: On a blistering afternoon in the courtyard of the East Las Vegas Community Center, former Vice President Joe Biden steps to the lectern. With white hair and aviator glasses, he looks like he wandered off the set of an Invisible Man remake. “How’s he going …
Read More »Andrew Yang Just Raised $10 Million in Three Months, His Biggest Haul Yet
WASHINGTON — Andrew Yang, the tech-centric outsider Democrat running for president, raised more than $10 million in July, August, and September of this year, according to Yang’s campaign. The eight-figure haul is more than triple what he raised in second quarter of 2019. And it is by far his best …
Read More »Why Are Progressives Wary of Technologies That Pull Carbon From the Air?
This story originally appeared in Grist. It is republished here as part of Rolling Stone’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Academies of Sciences, and scores …
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