US president Donald Trump spoke for the first time at the UN General Assembly this morning, giving a bombastic address reiterating his “America First” message…
AMERICA FIRST?
Watch LIVE: Donald Trump gives his first major speech before the United Nations
US president Donald Trump will give his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this morning. Trump made his first appearance at the…
BOTH SIDES, EH?
A US civil war monument honoring “both sides” was just unveiled—in Canada
As Civil War monuments are toppled across America, a city in Ontario just debuted a new one. It is the only national monument for the…
LINKED OUT
Trump wants to end chain migration—which is how his mother came to America
In 1929, 17-year-old Mary Anne MacLeod left Glasgow on the SS Transylvania to join a “well-established community of countrymen and women,” which included two of…
TIGHTROPE
Sheryl Sandberg’s prescient warning to Hillary Clinton before the 2016 campaign
Last July, Sheryl Sandberg endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in a lengthy post that opened with her daughter’s poignant question: Just a few years ago,…
LORD OF THE RINGS
Watch Cassini’s Saturn mission end with a daring dive into the atmosphere
After nearly two decades in space, the Cassini mission to Saturn is going out with an intentional bang. Tomorrow (Sept. 15), the spacecraft will head…
$17 MILLION IN DAMAGE
Trump and Mar-a-Lago have a long and questionable history with hurricanes
As Hurricane Irma makes its way toward Florida, requisite preparations are underway at Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach private club and so-called “Winter White House” owned…
OVERBOOKED
Airlines are price gouging in the path of Hurricane Irma—and algorithms are to blame
Travelers trying to evacuate in anticipation of Hurricane Irma, the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, are complaining of unusually high airline ticket…
Barack Obama’s impassioned rebuke of Trump on DACA: “This is about basic decency”
Shortly after the Trump administration announced it would rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, former US president Barack Obama spoke out against…
IRMA APPROACHES
A startling satellite image shows the incredible size and fury of Hurricane Irma
As Texans begin a long and expensive road to recovery in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, forecasters are already closely tracking another massive hurricane, Irma,…
NO GO
Harvey’s victims will face a new challenge: how to get around without a car
As the floodwaters begin to recede from Harvey, a natural disaster that has claimed at least 38 lives, residents in Houston and beyond are grappling…
NEXT IN THE PATH
As Harvey makes second landfall, residents beyond Houston are pleading for rescue
Hurricane Harvey, which has already devastated much of Houston, Texas, made a second landfall early this morning (Aug. 30), hitting the state’s southeast coast as…
