House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is learning that Twitter can be a cruel place. In a tweet posted Saturday morning, Ryan praised the new tax law spearheaded by the Republican party. The Speaker of the House shared the story of a secretary at a Pennsylvania public high school who was “pleasantly surprised her pay went up […]
A New Jersey federal judge temporary halted deportation proceedings against undocumented Indonesian Christians seeking legal status in the United States. Friday’s order came after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit following aggressive roundups of Indonesian Christians in New Jersey. The decision affects about 50 New Jersey residents who self-identified to Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
A New Jersey federal judge temporary halted deportation proceedings against undocumented Indonesian Christians seeking legal status in the United States. Friday’s order came after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit following aggressive roundups of Indonesian Christians in New Jersey. The decision affects about 50 New Jersey residents who self-identified to Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
Highly controversial legislation in Poland would make it a crime to blame the nation for the Holocaust, a step Israel’s government has soundly condemned — opening a rift between the two countries and sparking a heated diplomatic feud. Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, Poland’s far-right government approved a bill banning Holocaust accusations against […]
On Friday, House Republicans released a long-awaited memo meant to prove that both the FBI and Department of Justice abused surveillance powers in investigating a former Trump campaign adviser. The memo is part of an effort to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into any ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Republicans wanted […]
There are plenty of reasons not to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday evening between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eageles — the fact that we are watching men destroy their brains in real time; the fact that the NFL has botched its handling of everything from athlete activism to domestic violence to […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) dwindling pot of money aimed at fighting infectious-disease epidemics like Ebola will run out this year, and the agency doesn’t anticipate new dedicated funds. So the CDC is scaling back epidemic prevention work in 39 countries, and this has experts, including a United Nations Dispatch on Friday, […]
Republicans are taking the “unprecedented” step of asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling leading to new congressional maps. Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers argued on Friday that a 5-2 ruling last month declaring the state’s congressional map to be gerrymandered should be thrown out. Lawyers asked that the order […]
Fox News host Sean Hannity has been in regular contact with President Trump, encouraging him to release the Nunes memo, according to a report by the Daily Beast. On Friday afternoon, Trump followed Hannity’s advice and made the memo public. On Friday night, Hannity gave his 4 million viewers a summary of the memos findings. […]
What a difference three days make. During Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Donald Trump gleefully boasted that, thanks to the confidence he has instilled in businesses, the stock market was reaching heights never before seen. “[It’s] smashed one record after another, gaining $8 trillion in value,” Trump said. “That is great news for […]