Crooks and communists in James Ellroy’s latest epic

Meet the Press Moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss new NBC News polling that shows how Americans feel about President Donald Trump’s job performance amid the war in Iran and ahead of the country’s 250 birthday. “That’s a new low for his second term and of course it does come, as we know, as this war is deeply unpopular, that President Trump has been underwater in his handling of the economy,” Kirsten says.

Iranian government-backed protesters are on the streets of Tehran demonstrating against a deal with America to end the war after President Donald Trump said it could be signed as early as Sunday. Mediator Pakistan is calling it an “electronic signing ceremony” and Iran says the agreement is close, though it disputed the timing. NBC’s Keir Simmons reports for TODAY.

This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Across the globe, human activities are changing the way our planet smells. In Egypt, increasing temperatures are shrinking yields of aromatic jasmine flowers; in France, extreme drought has reduced the production of fragrant, night-blooming tuberose, a major ingredient in many […]

On Aug. 18, 1920, a 24-year-old state legislator from East Tennessee walked into the Tennessee House chamber wearing a red rose on his lapel. Red meant no. The chamber was deadlocked 48-48. The 19th Amendment needed one more state, and Tennessee was the last realistic option. Harry Burn had a letter in his pocket from […]