A new letter from the Heritage Foundation has revealed the right-wing think tank wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to push back against any Democrats being named to the Trump administration’s voter fraud commission. The Presidential Advisory Committee on Election Integrity was established by Trump in May, purportedly to investigate Trump’s evidence-free claim that up […]
Hours after the Washington Post confirmed through two White House attorneys that several administration lawyers had pushed for Senior Adviser Jared Kushner to step down from his role amid the widening Russia investigation, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders dismissed the report as false during an official press briefing on Tuesday. “[There was] no conversation that I’m aware […]
The Department of Homeland Security granted the federal government waivers for a long list of environmental laws in order to expedite the construction of a new barrier on the border of Mexico and California, about 85 miles east of San Diego. In a Federal Register notice published Tuesday, Elaine Duke, acting secretary of Homeland Security, said the […]
The U.N. Security Council on Monday night voted in favor of new sanctions against North Korea, proposed by the United States — the closest gambit the Trump administration has to diplomacy when dealing with a state hellbent on developing long-range nuclear missiles. After North Korea performed its nuclear test, Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the […]
ThinkProgress reported Tuesday morning that Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is the subject of a Department of Justice corruption probe for allegedly misappropriating billions of dollars, was staying at the Trump International Hotel in D.C. before his meeting with President Trump. On Tuesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was asked about the report and […]
Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 project — an effort to replace and expand an oil sands pipeline through Minnesota — hit a roadblock Monday when the state’s Department of Commerce said that the project is environmentally and economically risky and that the company has failed to show that the pipeline is even needed at all. “Enbridge […]
Several Democratic voting experts including New Hampshire’s secretary of state on Tuesday repudiated White House voting commission co-chair Kris Kobach’s claim that thousands of out-of-state voters in New Hampshire likely tipped the Senate race to Democrats. Kobach acknowledged he should have hedged his wording, but did not admit he was wrong. In a Breitbart column […]
Last week, conservatives from across the country chimed in to urge the Supreme Court to side with Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker who refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple. While the top headline was that President Trump’s Department of Justice was siding with Phillips, amicus briefs were also submitted from 19 […]
The Trump administration is consciously choosing to reject climate science in its plan to rebuild from superstorms Harvey and Irma. And that means their reconstruction of Houston and Florida will squander billions of taxpayer dollars and put Americans who rebuild at risk in the future. In stunning remarks during Monday’s White House press briefing, Homeland […]
Police officers were arrested 1,695 times for violations of their oaths to the public, messing with evidence, or lying in official statements from 2005 to 2012, according to a vast new data set on criminals in uniform released Tuesday. The numbers, compiled by Bowling Green State University professor and former cop Phil Stinson, are likely […]
Congressional Republicans returned to Washington from their August recess with a lot of things on their to-do list, chief among them Hurricane Harvey relief efforts and keeping the government running. But President Trump has also begun putting intense pressure on Republicans to take on tax reform. Republicans must start the Tax Reform/Tax Cut legislation ASAP. […]
A new study by Yale University has found Facebook’s effort to combat fake news by fact-checking has had remarkably little impact — and in some cases, it can end up making certain fake stories go viral. Facebook announced a roll out of its third-party fact-checking tool in December, after concerns the social media giant wasn’t […]
On Monday night, the official Twitter account of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) liked a tweet that featured an adult video. Hilarity and lots of jokes ensued. Cruz’s senior communications adviser, Catherine Frazier, initially tried to explain away the like by suggesting that someone may have hacked into Cruz’s account. She claimed that staff had “reported” […]
The number of people without health insurance fell to 8.8 percent in 2016, or 28.1 million — a record low. The uninsured rate between 2015 and 2016 decreased by 0.3 percent. In 2015, the percentage of people without health insurance coverage for the entire calendar year was 9.1 percent or 29 million. The U.S. Census […]
Nine recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative — which grants temporary deportation relief and work authorization to people brought to the country as children — were detained for hours on Monday at an immigration checkpoint in Texas to verify their paperwork, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson. The […]
Millions of people in Florida and other southeastern states, along with Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands, remain without power, making Hurricane Irma the worst weather-related power outage in U.S. history, according to estimates. A record 8.3 million customers lost power. The previous record number to lose power occurred in the wake of Superstorm Sandy […]
While undocumented immigrants face an onslaught of draconian actions from President Donald Trump’s administration, they aren’t the only ones caught in a messy and somewhat impossible system — something one tragic hate crime has made abundantly clear. Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old Indian national, was living and working in the United States when he was targeted […]
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is the subject of a Justice Department corruption probe which alleges he misappropriated billions of dollars from a government fund he controlled. In June, the Justice Department moved to seize $540 million in assets, including “[a] Picasso painting given to the actor Leonardo DiCaprio, the rights to two Hollywood comedies and a $27.3 […]
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon criticized the members of the Trump campaign who took meetings with Russians in a recent interview with Charlie Rose. Twice in the interview, which aired in two parts on 60 Minutes and The Charlie Rose Show, Bannon references meetings members of the campaign took in an effort to […]
Mexico has retracted its offer to send aid to Texas after two natural disasters pummeled the country. Media members in both countries noted that the withdrawal came after U.S. President Donald Trump failed to send his condolences for either one. Southern Mexico is still suffering the after-effects of a deadly earthquake, which struck on Thursday, […]