During a CNN interview on Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) struggled to account for a gaping hole in the conspiracy theory he and other Republicans have been pushing about purported anti-Trump bias in the FBI. Jordan has played a leading role in the Republican effort to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. His conspiracy, which he’s often given the […]
U.S. lawmakers are calling for the exclusion of Myanmar’s military from U.S.-led defense drills in Thailand, bordering the country on the east. Officers from Myanmar were invited to observe humanitarian assistance exercises at the Cobra Gold drills on February 13, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Myanmar has been engaged in a bloody campaign against the Rohingya Muslim […]
White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned Wednesday after both of his ex-wives accused him of domestic abuse. Both women reportedly spoke to the FBI as part of Porter’s background check and told the bureau Porter had abused them. The Daily Mail first reported the allegations earlier this week. Porter’s first wife, Jennifer Willoughy, told the […]
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has been working overtime to promote fossil fuels and rollback U.S. climate action; policies that climate scientists and over 190 nations say will lead to catastrophic levels of warming. On Tuesday, Pruitt, who has long denied basic climate science, explained part of his underlying motivation for the Trump administration’s […]
Donald Trump Jr. has something to say to anyone who thinks his father, President Trump, is a racist. “You know it’s amazing — all the rappers, all his African American friends, from Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, have pictures with him,” Donald Trump Jr. told the Daily Caller in an interview released this week, when […]
The Trump administration has stalled a critical funding opportunity for family planning providers for four months, leaving many concerned the application requirements will have changed for the worse. The application process for Title X grants, which provide funding for a range of family planning and preventive health services for low-income and uninsured individuals, was supposed to […]
Last month, a gay couple from Australia sued Vistaprint for sending them anti-gay propaganda instead of the programs for their wedding in Pennsylvania. The company has now explained that the mistake was a simple mix up and are working with the couple to rectify the error by making donations to various LGBTQ organizations. In a […]
Early Wednesday, Fox News published an explosive new story alleging President Obama sought detailed briefings about the Clinton email investigation. The report is based on texts between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page released by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday. In a text sent on September 2, 2016, Page tells Strozok […]
As recently as last week, President Trump was bragging about how stock market gains he purportedly engineered were propelling an economic surge benefiting all Americans. “[It’s] smashed one record after another, gaining $8 trillion in value,” Trump said during the State of the Union. “That is great news for Americans’ 401(k), retirement, pension and college saving accounts.” […]
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) announced this week he is working with Ivanka Trump to craft a paid leave plan intended to appeal to both Republicans and Democrats. The plan wouldn’t be funded by the federal government, raise taxes, or impose a mandate on employers — but would require individuals to withdraw from their Social Security […]
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved the nomination of former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to serve as deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a 11-10 party-line vote. An outspoken advocate for the coal industry, Wheeler has long questioned the mainstream consensus on climate change. In 2006, while working for the Senate environment […]
Last month, Senate Democrats shut down the government in an effort to secure protections for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. That’s looking less likely this month, as lawmakers eye a budget deal averting a shutdown — one that would boost spending for the military while […]
At the beginning of June, rumors started to trickle out from the White House and Republican leaders that President Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed booster of coal, had suggested something strange for his border wall: solar panels. Trump himself publicly touted the idea on June 21, during a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as a way […]
President Trump on Tuesday night tweeted his support for billionaire engineer and entrepreneur Elon Musk, whose aerospace company, SpaceX, had test-launched the Falcon Heavy lift rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida earlier in the day. Trump claimed that the rocket, which is eventually intended to carry payloads of up to 70 tons into […]
Speaking at a Heritage Foundation event to commemorate Ronald Reagan’s birthday on Tuesday night, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said his plan for solving the opioid crisis is more Bufferins and less marijuana. Alluding to the 7 percent drop in opioid prescriptions last year, Sessions said “my goal in 2018 is to see a further decline,” […]
The Trump administration’s efforts to craft a five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan got off to a head-scratching start when less than a week into the process, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke removed the state of Florida from consideration after meeting with its governor. The process has not gone any smoother over the past month, […]
The number of jobs in the U.S. solar industry dropped last year for the first time since the Solar Foundation began tracking employment in 2010 with its annual “Solar Jobs Census.” One of the reasons for the decline in jobs, according to the Census, was “uncertainty” surrounding President Donald’s Trump potential tariff on solar panels […]
President Donald Trump has used the infamous MS-13 gang as a justification for his anti-immigrant policies, and made the Salvadoran-American gang public enemy No.1 in his State of the Union speech last month. Now, the next round in Trump’s war against the gang will include going to battle against children who are fleeing violence-torn Central […]
Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln say the university has not taken action against an active white nationalist on campus, despite repeated warnings, local media reported Tuesday. A spokesperson for the university said in a statement Tuesday that the school is aware of the student, Daniel J. Kleve, a junior at the school. Kleave calls himself “the most […]
The European Union will no longer make trade deals with the United States if President Trump follows through on withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, according to a French official whose comments were endorsed by the European Commission. Addressing the French parliament on Thursday, French foreign affairs minister Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne drew a line in the sand. […]
The Indiana House on Monday unanimously passed a bill aimed at reducing suspensions, school arrests, and expulsions — punishments that are doled out to Black students and students with disabilities at alarmingly high rates. In Indiana, Black students account for 27 percent of students who receive an out-of-school suspension, despite the fact that Black students […]
During a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump said that he would “love to see a shutdown” if Congress couldn’t reach a deal on immigration and border security before the next spending deadline. “If we don’t change the legislation, if we don’t get rid of these loopholes where killers are allowed to […]