The watchdog office charged with investigating EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s potentially improper use of taxpayer funds for travel won’t expand its ongoing probe beyond travel conducted in 2017, citing constraints on its staffing, budget, and time. Therefore, while a trip that cost taxpayers more than $7,000 in June of 2017 would qualify as part of […]
Police in Broward County, Florida responded to a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Wednesday afternoon. The Broward County Sheriff’s office said it was “working a developing incident regarding a report of active shooter.” #BSO is working a developing incident regarding a report of active shooter located at 5901 Pine […]
On Wednesday morning in Pyeongchang, Shaun White won the his third gold medal in thrilling fashion in the final of the men’s snowboard halfpipe. Four years after his surprising failure to medal at Sochi, 31-year-old White returned to the biggest stage in sports and outdid 19-year-old Ayumu Hirano in his final run to add to […]
Between his defense of domestic abusers, his habit of stoking fears about immigrants, and his support for tax cuts tailor-made for billionaires, it’s sometimes easy to forget about the level of destructive power that President Trump wields every day, as commander-in-chief of the U.S. military, including its nuclear arsenal. Trump, however, has not forgotten. The president has […]
Veteran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin’s chief of staff altered an email and mislead ethics officials to create an excuse for wife Merle Bari’s 10-day, taxpayer-funded trip to Europe last summer, a report from the VA Inspector General claims. The report, released Wednesday, found that the third-most senior official at the VA doctored an email from […]
Keeping global warming below the lower Paris agreement target of 1.5 degrees Celsius is “extremely unlikely,” according to a leaked draft report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a trend that can only be countered if countries like the United States devote themselves to countering rising global temperatures. The annual IPCC report draft, […]
During a meeting about trade with lawmakers at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump took personal credit for General Motors’ decision relocate a plant from South Korea back to the United States. “GM Korea company announced today that it will cease production and close its Gunsan plant in May 2018 and they’re gonna move […]
How many pages do you “Like” on Facebook? How often do you see posts from them? If you’ve been on Facebook for a while, you’ve probably noticed the pages you like are almost absent from your newsfeed. This is by design. In January, Facebook announced changes to the algorithm it uses to determine what you […]
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Wednesday are set to release a bare-bones immigration proposal that has the opportunity to appease both political parties and the president himself. A bipartisan group of senators are set to propose an immigration bill Wednesday that includes permanent protections and an earned pathway to citizenship for […]
White House staffers have become increasingly frustrated with chief of staff John Kelly for his role in the ongoing Rob Porter scandal, the Washington Post reported Tuesday evening. The report, which cites people with knowledge of the situation, indicates that a “growing number of aides” in the West Wing have started blaming Kelly for his […]
Blue Cross of Idaho submitted five health plans to Idaho insurance regulators on Tuesday that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to local reports. The move has serious repercussions on people’s health care — and if the Trump administration allows the state to bypass the federal health law, other states could soon […]
During a CNN interview on Wednesday morning, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) placed Carter Page at the center of the FBI’s alleged anti-Trump plot during the 2016 election. But after host Chris Cuomo pointed out the obvious holes in his conspiracy theory, Jordan was left grasping at straws. Jordan’s theory is that the FBI took out […]
The Trump administration’s decision to significantly reduce refugee admissions to the United States is causing layoffs at refugee resettlement agencies across the United States, according to Reuters, with nearly two dozen offices expected to close. The U.S. State Department’s plan — which, as Reuters reported, still needs final approval — has ordered at least 20 refugee […]
In December, Omar Navarro, the Republican candidate for California’s 43rd district, unveiled what he thought could be a bombshell. Taking to Twitter, Navarro revealed that his opponent, Democrat Maxine Waters, “wants more terrorists, like the one who bombed NYC, in California’s 43rd District.” As proof, Navarro shared a “letter” he’d obtained from his campaign manager: […]
Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, admitted Tuesday night that he made a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels weeks before the election. In a statement, Cohen claimed he used his “personal funds” to “facilitate” the payment and was not reimbursed by the Trump campaign or the Trump Organization. Cohen refused to say if […]
When a group of people in Mississippi, known as the Delta Flaggers, stood outside the state’s new civil rights museum waving Confederate battle flags and Mississippi state flags last weekend, a black Capitol police officer confronted them — and was then fired for it. According to the Clarion-Ledger, the Flaggers, who posted a video of […]
The Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee revealed on CNN on Wednesday morning that he’s launched an investigation of White House’s handling of the Rob Porter domestic abuse scandal. It took a while for oversight committee chair Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to acknowledge it. Early during the interview, Gowdy — who recently announced he will not […]
Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, admitted on Tuesday that he paid $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 presidential election. “Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly. The payment […]
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday that the White House’s personnel security office’s consideration of former staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned last week after two of his ex-wives accused him of domestic abusive, was still ongoing when Porter resigned. “The White House personnel security office, staffed by career officials, received information […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is giving the Senate the rest of this week only to consider permanent legislation to protect the nearly 800,000 young immigrants known as Dreamers before he moves on to “other things.” On Tuesday, McConnell said the Senate would limit its work to this week only to provide a permanent […]