What can Chicago afford? The city couldn’t afford to keep 50 of its public schools open in 2013, Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) decided. The previous year, he deemed six of the city’s 12 mental health clinics didn’t have a seat at the table either, pushing thousands closer to the prison system one local sheriff has […]
Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama, Roy Moore, initiated sexual encounters with underage women as young as 14 years old, according to a bombshell report in the Washington Post published Thursday. Four women gave on-the-record interviews to the Post, accounts that were supported by roughly 30 other sources. Moore is known for his inflammatory rhetoric, […]
On Thursday, the Washington Post published an explosive report detailing multiple allegations against Alabama Republican senate candidate Roy Moore. Four women say that Moore sexually assaulted or harassed them when they were minors and Moore was in his 30s, working at the time as an assistant district attorney in Alabama. Moore quickly denied the report, […]
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that a woman named Leigh Corfman says Alabama Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore molested her when she was 14 years old and he was 32. Three other women also told the Post that Moore pursued them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s. Top Republicans, including […]
“ObamaCare is dead,” President Trump tweeted in May. It’s a tune the GOP has been singing for months as they have tried and failed time and time again to repeal the law. But it’s simply not true. More than 600,000 people enrolled in Obamacare in the first four days of open enrollment, according to numbers […]
During an event in Beijing on Thursday, President Trump broke with decades of precedent, refusing to allow questions from reporters. The president, who is currently on a 12-day trip across Asia, has spent the past few days meeting with Chinese premier Xi Jinping, whose government is known for its efforts to control the press. During a […]
It’s been less than two weeks since actor Anthony Rapp publicly accused Kevin Spacey of making a sexual advance on him when Rapp was only 14 years old. Spacey apologized — or at least, he attempted to apologize. In a widely-derided statement, Spacey first said he had no recollection of the encounter (“if I did […]
On Wednesday, the Justice Department shared photos of Attorney General Jeff Sessions welcoming new U.S. Attorneys in a tweet that was regrettable for reasons that go beyond Sessions’ arm angle. Of the 27 people visible in the photos, just one is a woman. Attorney General Sessions welcomes U.S. Attorneys to the Justice Department pic.twitter.com/QS2ys8Pyrm — […]
On Tuesday, Florida-based HVAC manufacturer Carrier, which struck a highly-touted deal with now-President Trump in late November 2016 to keep jobs in the United States, announced it would be laying off more than 200 employees this coming January. The company previously laid off approximately 340 workers at its Indianapolis plant in July. “As part of […]
Danica Roem’s election to the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday was a big win, as she will become the first openly transgender woman to take state office. But Tuesday’s election was a far bigger win for transgender candidates than most tallies have accounted for. Based on local reports from across the country, ThinkProgress has […]
Maine’s Democratic secretary of state filed a lawsuit Thursday against the White House voting commission on which he sits, claiming that the panel is violating federal law by excluding him from its work. In a federal lawsuit, Secretary of State Matt Dunlap alleges that the commission, led by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and […]
In June, hundreds of heavily armed, suited-up men appeared in Houston’s Hermann Park. They arrived from across the state, lugging their AR-15s and Dixie insignia, ready to shut down a planned protest aimed at toppling the park’s statue of the city’s namesake, Sam Houston. Wrote longtime Texas journalist John Nova Lomax, “I have never seen […]
After every mass shooting, a grim online pattern follows. Politicians tweet out their thoughts and prayers, and explain that now is not the time to discuss gun control. Meanwhile, law enforcement slowly updates the media as they painstakingly piece together the timeline for the latest massacre. Meanwhile, online, a flurry of misinformation spreads. Some of […]
In a predictable twist, Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and reportedly a sworn member of a Nazi-allied party in Hungary, is joining Fox News. Fox News host Sean Hannity announced the hire on his radio show Wednesday afternoon. “Joining us now is Dr. Sebastian Gorka,” Hannity told listeners. “I can […]
President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) admitted he viewed a plan developed by a top coal producer to roll back environmental regulations at the agency and attended meetings on Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s proposal to subsidize coal and nuclear plants. Testifying at his confirmation hearing Wednesday before the […]
Voters in Virginia sent a message on election day: Access to affordable care matters. A post-election survey of Virginia voters conducted Tuesday found that health care was a decisive issue in the closely watched gubernatorial race, with 67 percent of voters saying health care was the most important or a very important issue to them. […]
President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Department of Homeland Security — which oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to disasters — refuses to acknowledge the basic climate science needed for her to protect the nation from future disasters during her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday. Ignoring the fact that the White House just approved […]
A retired California judge allegedly refused to read motions from a defendant charged with murder because he was HIV positive and would have licked the envelope in which the documents were sealed. “Lord knows where his tongue has been,” Riverside County Superior Court Judge David B. Downing allegedly said during the trial in 2012. Now, […]
President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) appeared before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday, giving lawmakers an opportunity to hear first-hand from a nominee whose controversial statements had caused a stir on Capitol Hill and in the environmental community. The nominee, Kathleen Hartnett White, didn’t […]
In its ongoing campaign to apply pressure to Iran’s ballistic missile program — and trying to undo the nuclear deal with Iran — Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has accused Iran of supplying missiles to Houthi fighters in Yemen, where the United States is backing Yemen in a bombing campaign that […]