This story was originallypublished byGristand appears here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A U.S. city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its drinking water supply. In 2016, that would …
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Amid an ongoing heat wave, new data show the Greenland ice sheet is in the middle of its biggest melt season in recorded history. It’s the latest worrying signal climate change is accelerating far beyond the worst fears of even climate scientists. The record-setting heat wave that sweltered northern Europe …
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UPDATE, June 25th: The New York Times is reporting that the National Rifle Association is ending production of live programming for NRATV, meaning that going forward employees of the PR firm Ackerman McQueen like Dana Loesch “will no longer be the public faces of the NRA.” The news, though not …
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On Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the panel discussion turned to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s recent reversal of his support for the Hyde amendment, a law that bans federal funding for abortion. California freshman congresswoman Katie Porter went right after Biden, saying he’s playing politics with a serious …
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Ackerman McQueen is biting the hand that feeds it. The longtime PR firm for the National Rifle Association is counter-suing the gun group for a staggering $100 million, alleging the NRA is dishonestly attempting to sever business ties — for the benefit of the gun group’s top-dollar legal firm. The …
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Don McGahn was supposed to appear before Congress on Tuesday. He was legally required to, in fact. He didn’t show. President Trump instructed the former White House legal counsel to defy the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena to answer questions that have risen since the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s …
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