A pair of major moving companies are the latest to sever ties to the National Rifle Association. Both Allied Van Lines and North American Van Lines, moving companies operated by the same parent company, offered unspecified discounts for NRA members. On Friday, the parent company announced those benefits would be ending. “North American and Allied […]
As backlash to corporations that support the National Rifle Association (NRA) grows, another major rental car company said Friday it will no longer be offering discounts to NRA members. Hertz said on Twitter that it notified the gun lobby of its decision. Representatives for the company did not immediately respond to requests for comment. We […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of making false statements to the FBI and special prosecutor’s office, in the latest sign that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is heating up. Standing before the judge with his […]
NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND — If you had to pick between Second Amendment or tax cuts, what would you choose? For attendees at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) Friday, the answer was surprisingly easy. “[Democrats] will take away those massive tax cuts and they will take away your Second Amendment,” President Trump said during a long, […]
As the dust settles from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s bombshell indictment of a number of Russians for their social media interference operations, the extent of their reach and influence remains an open question. Nonetheless, the argument that the Facebook operation coordinated out of St. Petersburg was sloppy, and thus ineffective, gained new prominence this week — […]
At a town hall on Wednesday night, the survivors of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, made Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) squirm with a series of pointed questions about his support for the Second Amendment. One question that drew particularly loud cheers came from Cameron Kasky, when he asked Rubio, “Can you tell me right now […]
In a move formalizing more than a year of hardline anti-immigration rhetoric from the White House, the agency responsible for overseeing both green cards and citizenship has wiped a key line framing the United States as a “nation of immigrants” from its mission statement. In a letter sent Thursday, Lee Francis Cissna, the director of […]
Teladoc, a telemedicine company that once offered a $14.95 discounted monthly rate for National Rifle Association members, told ThinkProgress on Friday that that program is now over and the NRA’s website offering the benefit would soon be removed. A company spokesperson said in an email earlier in the week that Teladoc did not have a […]
The Missouri Republican Party on Friday rushed to defend Gov. Eric Greitens (R), who was indicted this week for allegedly taking a nude photo of a woman without her consent and threatening to use it as blackmail. “Kim Gardner has received more than $200,000 from George Soros groups,” Executive Director Sam Cooper stated, referring to the St. Louis […]
California is working hard to pick up the slack created by the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign to curtail enforcement of environmental laws across the nation. Many states don’t have the financial means or the political will to fill the gap left by Trump’s decision to gut environmental regulations and roll back enforcement efforts. California, on the […]
A major security software company has become the latest business to sever its relationship with the National Rifle Association. Symantec, the parent company of Norton and LifeLock, announced Friday that it will no longer offer discounts on its products for NRA members, following a massive public push for them to end the relationship. Symantec has […]
Calling himself a “foot soldier in the army” of the conservative moment, Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Friday hailed President Trump’s war on government rules. This is despite the Department of Energy waging a months-long campaign in 2017 to allow the government, not free markets, decide what types of fuel sources should be used to […]
As the United Nations focuses on the details of how over 600,000 Rohingya are to be returned to Myanmar from refugee camps in Bangladesh, the government of Myanmar is rapidly destroying all evidence of a rapidly unfolding genocide. Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday said that it has new satellite images showing 55 abandoned villages […]
Eric Trump says criticizing his family’s conflicts of interest, as well as the blurred line between the Trump Organization and the White House, is an infringement of their First Amendment rights. “What don’t we get hammered for?” he said, speaking with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday, addressing pushback against his brother, Donald Trump […]
U.S. forces are set to remain in Iraq and Syria indefinitely following a declaration from the Trump administration that it needs no new authorization to keep soldiers in the war. The White House has indicated for some time that President Trump’s administration feels there is no need for a new Authorization for Use of Military […]
There was a meaningful uptick in the number of racial harassment complaints in schools last year. The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education received a significantly higher number of racial harassment complaints in 2017, according to HuffPost. In fiscal year 2017, there was a nearly 25 percent rise from fiscal year […]
In almost every state in the country, communities of color are more likely to be exposed to higher levels of dangerous air pollution than white communities, according to a new study released on Thursday by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists. The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, focused on pollutants from refineries […]
Harvey Weinstein, in a desperate and ill-advised effort to get the sexual misconduct class action lawsuit against him thrown away, tried a classic Hollywood tactic: Name-dropping. In his latest legal filing, the producer — an alleged sexual predator who scores of women claim harassed, abused, and assaulted them — cites Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence […]
Oregon lawmakers passed gun control legislation Thursday, becoming the first state legislature to do so since the Parkland shooting. Lawmakers were inflamed by the recent shooting in Florida, where a teen gunman opened fire on teachers and students, killing 17 people. The Oregon state legislature banned people convicted of domestic violence against partners they’re not married […]
A day after telling CPAC that “many in the media love mass shootings” because they are good for ratings, National Rifle Association national spokesperson Dana Loesch complained on CNN that its town hall on gun violence on Wednesday did not focus enough on solutions. Moments later, she angrily rejected the suggestion that her organization bears […]
A major car rental conglomerate which operates three prominent national brands is ending its corporate relationship with the National Rifle Association, as backlash grows in the wake of the Parkland mass shooting. Until Thursday, Enterprise Holdings, which operates Enterprise, Alamo, and National, had a partnership with the NRA to provide discounts to members of the […]
Shortly after President Donald Trump nominated Leandro Rizzuto Jr. as ambassador to Barbados, the Florida business executive promised to give thousands of dollars for an upcoming gala at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, according to a Washington Post report published Thursday. Rizzuto and his wife pledged the donation, which may be as […]
NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND — In January 2013, just one month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward proposed a bill that would ban all federal, state or local government employees and federally licensed gun dealers in Arizona from enforcing any federal law or regulation relating to firearms or ammunition. But when asked […]
After last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Americans are imploring their leaders to take serious action on gun control. During a town hall Wednesday night, for instance, survivors of the shooting suggested plenty of steps that could be taken, from banning bump stocks to limiting magazine capacity, strengthening background checks, and easing the NRA’s stranglehold […]
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) was arrested and indicted on Thursday on a felony invasion of privacy charge stemming from a 2015 incident in which he allegedly took nude photos of a woman without her consent. “Today, a City of St. Louis Grand Jury indicted [Greitens] on a Felony Invasion of Privacy charge for an incident […]