U.S. presidents and first ladies have had their share of awkward moments with the British royal family over the years
A car-free stretch of highway in San Francisco leads to recall vote and warning to politicians
A San Francisco supervisor who pushed to turn a 2-mile stretch of highway into a car-free park faces a recall vote in his district
Suspect in home invasions of Macklemore, celebrity athletes pleads not guilty
Suspect has been held on bail totaling more than $2 million.
Global shares trade mixed as markets eye Fed decision
Wall Street inched a tad higher as markets look ahead to what most expect will be an interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve later this week
US designates Colombia as failing to cooperate in the drug war for first time in nearly 30 years
The Trump administration has added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in nearly three decades
Endangered orca in Washington state seen carrying a dead calf
She is carrying her dead newborn calf in an apparent effort to revive it.
Mothers turn in sons to face charges for Florida grade school vandalism
Two boys allegedly caused $50,000 worth of vandalism damage.
How to get Georgia voters to turn out for the PSC election? Talk about their power bills.
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station. While any election brings ads, events, door-knocking, and other efforts to remind people to get to the polls, this year campaign workers concerned with Georgia’s Public Service Commission races have another hurdle: education. Climate and...
Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections
In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. That addition, the Congressional Review Act, granted Congress the power to kill new federal regulations with a simple majority vote. Thirty years later, Republican lawmakers are wielding it...
How low oil prices turned Trump’s call to ‘drill, baby, drill’ into a pipe dream
When President Donald Trump took office, he promised to “unleash American energy” — and quickly left no doubt that he meant fossil fuel energy in particular. In the months since, he has opened up vast stretches of public lands and U.S. oceans for drilling and reduced the royalty rates that...