Bringing you just the headlines

Donald Trump is a deeply stupid man. x Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from  tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2019 Trump isn't the first to blither such idiocy, and he won’t be the last. And while it's sometimes unclear whether some of those...

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières has recruited top Australian forensics expert to study the open-air decomposition of human remains.

"I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!" Trump wrote.

Costa Rica wants to become the first "carbon zero" nation and show the world

In February 2003, Al Jazeera broadcast an interview with Donald Rumsfeld, then George W. Bush’s secretary of defense. “Would it worry you,” the interviewer asked him, “if you go by force into Iraq that this might create the impression that the United States is becoming an imperial, colonial power?” Rumsfeld swatted away the question. “I’m sure that some people would say that,” he responded, “but it can’t be true because we’re not a colonial power. We’ve never been a colonial power.

Democrats are increasingly comfortable with an active government role in society. Support for socialism, though, is basically unchanged.

Growing levels of public sector corruption can stifle a country’s economic growth while also chipping away at political freedom. Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins asks,  which parts of the world are perceived to be most corrupt – and further, how does this data differ between regions, and how has it trended over time? THE CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX (CPI) Today’s chart pulls its numbers from the recent 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index report, which has been published by Transparency...