White House chief of staff John Kelly tried to once again defend his response to allegations of abuse against former staff secretary Rob Porter this week by further complicating an already tangled narrative. Speaking with reporters in an impromptu meeting on Friday, Kelly claimed that the “first [he’d] heard of a serious accusation against [Porter]” […]
Things seem to be going from bad to worse for President Donald Trump’s property in Panama. In a letter obtained by ThinkProgress, Reps. Norma Torres (D-CA) and Eliot Engel (D-CA) questioned Alan Garten, general counsel at the Trump Organization, regarding what Trump and his associates knew about alleged money and drug trafficking at the property […]
The space for civil society and free expression in Egypt has shrunk even further this week. On Thursday, Al Monitor reported that a new protocol has been put in place between the Nasser Military Academy and the country’s Supreme Council for Media Regulation. Editors-in-chiefs of news publications are now essentially required to participate in “strategic […]
Since the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, corporations and banks have begun to reexamine their relationship to the gun industry. Over two dozen companies have cut ties with the National Rifle Association, multiple retail stores have changed their policies to make it harder to purchase guns, and at least one bank has said it’s considering […]
During a CNBC interview on Friday, commerce secretary Wilbur Ross dismissed concerns that President Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on aluminum and steel will raise prices for American consumers, arguing that a penny here and a dollar there “doesn’t mean anything” to people. Ross explained that Trump’s tariffs would raise the price of the “typical […]
Philadelphia’s new District Attorney, elected on a promise to clean house and reassert citizens’ civil rights in a city where police have violated them for years with impunity, is trying to take an inclusive approach to his reform platform. But when Larry Krasner met with a group of police academy cadets on Tuesday to talk […]
France far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been placed under formal investigation on suspicion of circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity”, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Thursday. If the investigation leads to a trial, Le Pen could be sentenced to three years in prison and 75,000 Euros (over $92,000) for photos […]
Earlier this week, Georgia’s Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle (R) vowed to kill tax legislation benefiting Delta after the airline cut ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA) last week. On Thursday, with the help of the Georgia state legislature, Cagle made good on that promise. I will kill any tax legislation that benefits @Delta unless […]
The equity firm magnate that advised the Trump administration on infrastructure and whose company gave a $184 million loan to Kushner Companies also benefited from three rule changes relaxing pipeline safety regulations. Last year, Joshua Harris, founder of equity firm giant Apollo Global Management, advised the Trump administration on infrastructure policy and discussed a possible […]
In the wake of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida last month that left 17 people dead, a number of companies cut ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA), the nation’s largest gun lobbying organization. According to a Morning Consult poll released Wednesday, some of those companies are now facing backlash for their decision to […]
The White House convened a summit on the opioid epidemic Thursday, where drug addiction experts and victims asked Trump administration officials about what was being done to curb a crisis that kills an average of 115 people nationwide every day. People harmed in some capacity by the epidemic spoke directly with cabinet secretaries, but there was […]
On Thursday, the New York Times reported that House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) leaked Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Mark Warner’s (D-VA) confidential text messages to Fox News as part of his ongoing effort to discredit the ongoing investigations of the Trump campaign for possible collusion with Russia. “The Senate Intelligence Committee has […]
On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gave a brief speech where he criticized Senate Republicans for applying different rules to Trump judicial nominees than they applied to President Obama’s, chided Donald Trump for naming almost exclusively white judges, and announced that he would not vote for Marvin Quattlebaum, a newly confirmed district judge. […]
On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gave a brief speech where he criticized Senate Republicans for applying different rules to Trump judicial nominees than they applied to President Obama’s, chided Donald Trump for naming almost exclusively white judges, and announced that he would not vote for Marvin Quattlebaum, a newly confirmed district judge. […]
A leading Trump administration official in charge of key immigration and refugee decisions has said he does not believe undocumented immigrants have a constitutional right to abortion. In a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the organization argues Scott Lloyd, the director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of […]
A leading Trump administration official in charge of key immigration and refugee decisions has said he does not believe undocumented immigrants have a constitutional right to abortion. In a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the organization argues Scott Lloyd, the director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of […]
Equifax announced this week that a widespread hack last year may have affected millions more people than originally thought. The news comes less than one month after the credit monitoring firm revealed hackers may have targeted consumers’ email addresses, tax identification numbers, and driver’s license information, in addition to the information previously identified as stolen last year. […]