After his indictment on 34 felony counts Tuesday, Donald Trump sought out a faithful audience, joining a conference call with Christian supporters who see him as not simply battling a liberal prosecutor, but ensnared in a “demonic situation.” Trump’s longtime religious adviser Paula White Cain, working with an evangelical group …
Read More »Trump's Campaign Is Already Hawking Merch With a Fake Mugshot
Donald Trump, the ex-president, is about to make history as the first former POTUS to be criminally charged. But Donald Trump, the 2024 presidential candidate, isn’t about to let the buzz around his booking go to waste — and he may include using his mugshot in a large campaign marketing …
Read More »Irony Alert: Judge Ordered Stormy to Pay Trump $121K Today
The fallout from Donald Trump’s alleged affair with Stormy Daniels landed him in court on Tuesday —but stuck her with a hefty bill. A federal appeals court has ordered Daniels to pay Trump’s lawyers over $121,000 in legal fees stemming from her failed defamation suit against the former president. The …
Read More »Silicon Valley is Spending $925 Million To Suck All the Carbon From the Air
THE TECH INDUSTRY is no stranger to moonshot ideas. But its most consequential climate gambit is aiming a little lower: specifically, the atmosphere. Four major tech companies have partnered to form Frontier, a $925 million fund to pay companies to pull carbon from the sky. The money will be spent …
Read More »Inside Trump's Demands for a High-Profile Surrender: 'It's Kind of a Jesus Christ Thing'
Donald Trump insisted on turning his Tuesday arraignment into a spectacle, and he’s going to get his wish. A law enforcement official tells Rolling Stone that the former president was offered a chance to surrender quietly and be arraigned over Zoom. Instead, Trump opted for a midday, high-profile booking at …
Read More »Fungus Meat? Lab-Grown Halibut? Meet the Scientists Growing Your Next Meal
IN THE CORNER of IndieBio NY’s open workspace sit four guitars. Well, technically they’re acoustic and electric hollow-body and solid-body guitars — and a keytar. The instruments aren’t there just to keep the startup founders who come through IndieBio’s six-month program entertained. They also represent a culture of progressive thinking. …
Read More »The Record-Breaking Race That Could Decide the Future of Abortion in Wisconsin
On Tuesday, voters in Wisconsin will decide who they want to sit on the Supreme Court for the next 10 years. The jurist who wins that election will weigh in on hundreds of cases over the next decade, but for many doctors the race is about just one of them: …
Read More »This Simple Math Problem Could Be the Key to Solving Our Climate Crisis
T he climate crisis is many things: a test of whether we can overcome the vast gulfs between the Global North and the Global South, a challenge to a political system geared toward short-term thinking, a lens that magnifies past injustice and future deprivation. But it’s also, at heart, a …
Read More »Trump's Team Blasts His Lawyer as 'Dumb' 'Loudmouth'
Donald Trump hasn’t surrendered to authorities yet. But his lawyers are already fighting —with themselves. Days after the former president’s indictment at the hands of Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, some of Trump’s lawyers are taking aim at Joe Tacopina, his co-lead defense attorney in the Bragg case. A source familiar …
Read More »Lock Him Up: Team Trump Demands Congress Rush Biden Probes
Some of Donald Trump’s close advisers are calling on top Republicans in Congress to accelerate criminal referrals against President Joe Biden, demanding revenge after Trump became the first former president in history to be indicted. “Now the House GOP has to continue to investigate the Biden bribes and refer for …
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