Kentucky’s Strip Mines Get Turned Into Neighborhoods
The wooden cabinets and gray walls, still smelling of fresh paint, could be found in the kitchen of any suburban home. From the window, the neat row of houses in…
Trump Seeks to Assert More Control Over California’s Water
The White House on Sunday released an executive order by President Trump that laid out a plan to exert the federal government’s role in California’s complex water management operations and…
Giant pandas make public debut in Washington DC
Giant pandas Qing Bao and Bao Li have made their public debut on Friday after three months of adapting to their new life in Washington DC’s Smithsonian National Zoo. They…
U.S. Military Planes Carrying Migrants Land in Guatemala
Two military jets landed in Guatemala City on Friday carrying deported migrants from Tucson, Ariz., and El Paso, according to local migration authorities and the American Embassy in Guatemala. Guatemala…
More Kentucky Dirty Dealings: Attorney General Schemes to Leave Hundreds of Millions in Pension Recovery on the Table, Give Sweetheart Payout to Attorneys, To Settle Claims Against Private Equity Kingpins KKR and Blackstone, Including Ones by Plaintiffs the AG Does Not Represent | naked capitalism
Just when the long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems case against three (in)famous investment firms, KKR, Blackstone, Pimco, and critically, the top executives of KKR and Blackstone personally, was closing in on…
In California Fires, Trump Blames Newsom for Withholding Water. Experts Disagree.
President Trump has repeatedly blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders for the fires that devastated Los Angeles. The president has charged that the state’s Democrats have stubbornly refused…
New fires erupt in southern California ahead of Trump visit
Five new fires have erupted in southern California ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit to the state. The blazes – named Laguna, Sepulveda, Gibbel, Gilman and Border 2 –…
Before Los Angeles disaster, wildfires pushed others out of California
10 hours ago Madeline Halpert BBC News Getty Images Christina Welch still remembers what the sky looked like the day a wildfire came within 2 miles (3.2 km) of her…
Trump to Visit North Carolina and California, With Disaster Aid an Open Question
President Trump will take his first trip since returning to the White House on Friday to storm-ravaged North Carolina and California, which is suffering some of the most deadly and…
Nevada’s Lithium Could Help Save the Earth. But What Happens to Nevada?
Donnelly, who dropped out of college and moved to the Mojave Desert in the early 2000s, took a different path to their work in the basin. (He eventually earned his…