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Scientists have dramatically underestimated the impact rising seas will have on cities around the world, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications on Tuesday.  One hundred and fifty million people are currently living in places that will be below the high-tide line in 30 years —  three times …

Freshman Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.), who admitted to having a relationship with a campaign staffer and was also facing a House ethics investigation involving another alleged improper relationship with a staff member, announced her resignation from Congress on Sunday evening. “It is with a broken heart that today I announce …

WASHINGTON — These are strange times to live in our nation’s capital for reasons obvious and subtle. The most obvious is this: The District’s most powerful resident, President Donald Trump, is also perhaps its most hated. D.C. is a liberal enclave, and Trump’s place at the center of it — …

This story was originallypublished byGristand appears here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Adrienne Titus was heading back to her parents’ village on a sweltering afternoon in early July when she saw the dead salmon. She had been fishing upstream with her mother on the banks of the gorgeous Unalakleet …

At a rally in May, President Trump laughed when a supporter suggested shooting migrants to prevent them from crossing the Southern border. “That’s only in the Panhandle can you get away with that statement,” the president said to a cheering audience in Panama City Beach, Florida. On Tuesday, we also …

“This is a deep state operative, pure and simple,” White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace in an attempt to characterize as partisan the whistleblower who came forward following President Donald Trump‘s phone call with Ukraine’s president asking him to dig up dirt …

If the Trump White House’s “transcript” of the president’s now-infamous July 25th phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was the sight of the north Atlantic ice peak sitting above the water, the intelligence-community whistleblower complaint released on Thursday morning was the giant iceberg lying in wait to puncture the …

Under President Donald Trump, the United States has seen the largest reduction of nationally protected lands in the country’s history. One of the victims of the administration is Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which will soon be open to strip mining and gas extraction, according to a Bureau of Land Management …

David Koch, the billionaire conservative activist who helped shape modern American politics, has died. He was 79. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” David’s brother Charles Koch wrote in a statement Friday morning. “Anyone who worked with David surely experienced his …

The president’s flirtation with universal background checks and other popular gun control measures has been predictably brief. (We’ve been predicting the president was running another bait-and-switch on the American public for since basically the moment the latest racket started.) In the wake of the massacres in Dayton and El Paso, …