For years, Charlie Kirk — a conservative activist and the executive director of Turning Point USA — has been crying out about the purported censorship of conservative voices on college campuses. The campus left used to fight for free speech. Now they fight to silence speech and silence other opinions! — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 2, […]
Citi Group on Thursday announced that it is the latest bank to rethink its relationship with the firearms industry, implementing a series of new requirements on corporate partners and vendors who accept Citi credit cards. Other banks have already announced they are re-evaluating their policies in the aftermath of last month’s Parkland mass shooting. In […]
After weeks of brutal battle that has left more than 1,700 civilians dead, displaced over 45,000 and trapped thousands more, the siege on the restive area of eastern Ghouta looks to be ending, with the Syrian government gaining the upper hand. Reuters reported on Thursday that forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad are getting closer […]
Just one day after 24-year-old Mark Conditt, the bomber responsible for killing two and injuring several others in Austin, Texas over the span of three weeks, killed himself after detonating a bomb in a ditch, media outlets have been bending over backwards to humanize him, describing Conditt as “quiet,” “shy,” and “kind.” On Wednesday, The […]
At least on paper, Donald Trump is a lawyer’s dream client. He’s not just world famous, he may someday become the most high-profile criminal defendant on the planet. He runs up massive legal bills, and actually has enough money to pay them (or so he claims, anyway). And who wouldn’t want to be able to […]
At least on paper, Donald Trump is a lawyer’s dream client. He’s not just world famous, he may someday become the most high-profile criminal defendant on the planet. He runs up massive legal bills, and actually has enough money to pay them (or so he claims, anyway). And who wouldn’t want to be able to […]
Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and Maryland have expanded their lawsuit against President Donald Trump to include Trump in his personal capacity as a businessman. As part of the process, they sent an official summon to Trump at his home, the White House, located on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Lawyers for Trump have 21 […]
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be prohibited from going after state medical marijuana growers, retailers, and patients for at least another fiscal year, after lawmakers included language tying the Department of Justice’s hands on therapeutic weed in an omnibus spending bill this week. The restrictions defy Sessions’ personal plea to Congress from roughly a year […]
A judge ruled Thursday that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) must “promptly” hold special elections for two vacant seats in the state legislature — elections that he refused to call because he was afraid his party would lose. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dane County Circuit Judge Josann Reynolds ruled that state law requires Walker, […]
Car companies like GM, Ford, and Toyota are getting great publicity for touting a future of green cars. But at the same time, new reports show their lobbying group is pushing science denial to weaken U.S. clean car standards. “General Motors believes the future is all-electric. A world free of automotive emissions,” GM’s product chief Mark […]
Ayers Energy LLC is, ostensibly, an energy company based out of either Bedford, Texas, or Cheyenne, Wyoming, depending on what day you look at the results of the Bureau of Land Management’s most recent oil and gas auction. Public information about the company is scarce: It’s not listed as a taxable entity by the Texas Comptroller, […]
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is not properly monitoring a program responsible for solving the country’s backlog of public housing repairs, according to a new Government Accountability Office audit. HUD’s failure to monitor this program, according to the report, jeopardizes the ability of thousands of low-income residents to remain in their homes. Despite […]
Less than two weeks ago, President Trump took aim at the “Failing New York Times” for a report about how he was considering a shakeup to the legal team he’d assembled to deal with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. “The Failing New York Times purposely wrote a false story stating that I am unhappy with […]
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed a bill into law Wednesday to allow recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to obtain licenses in more than 70 professions, such as nursing, architecture, and cosmetology. The move comes one month after the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency (PLA) added questions about citizenship status to […]
Congress’ spending bill demolishes many of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ budget priorities and proposals. The bill rejects many of her proposed cuts for the department, and instead allocates more money to the Office for Civil Rights, preserves funding for before and after school programs, and keeps in place a grant program that helps provide school-based […]
Internet software company Mozilla says it’s “pressing pause” on Facebook advertising in the wake of the massive Cambridge Analytica scandal that has plagued the social media giant since last week. “Facebook knows a great deal about their two billion users — perhaps more intimate information than any other company does. They know everything we click and like […]
This week, Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III sent a memo to prosecutors urging them to “seek capital punishment for certain drug-related crimes.” The letter follows Donald Trump’s comments praising the Philippines’ authoritarian leader Rodrigo Duterte, who is believed to be engaged in a campaign of extrajudicial killings of suspected drug dealers. At least as a constitutional matter, […]
If he’s going to get the third term he wants, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) will have to fend off a challenge from the police chief he fired over a scandalous police killing and cover-up that implicated both men’s offices. Former police superintendent Garry McCarthy formally announced his candidacy for mayor on Wednesday night in […]
Lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that would fund the government through the end of September. The legislation, packaged in a 2,232-page document, still needs to pass both chambers of Congress and get President Trump’s signature before Friday at midnight in order to prevent a government shutdown. The spending bill generally […]
Tennessee lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill this week that will require all schools in the state to display “In God We Trust” in some sort of “prominent location,” such as “a school entry way, cafeteria, or common area where students are likely to see” it. After it passed unanimously in the state Senate two weeks […]
In the last 24 hours Mark Zuckerberg has bitten the bullet. The notoriously media-shy mogul gave a slew of interviews this week as he attempted to control the fall-out from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and explain just how the data analytics firm which helped the Trump campaign managed to harvest the profile information from 50 […]
In the last 24 hours Mark Zuckerberg has bitten the bullet. The notoriously media-shy mogul gave a slew of interviews this week as he attempted to control the fall-out from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and explain just how the data analytics firm which helped the Trump campaign managed to harvest the profile information from 50 […]
Despite years of tough talk about balanced budgets, the Republican majority in the House and Senate rammed through a massive tax cut for the rich in December that their own analysis showed would increase the deficit by more than $1 trillion. Now, many of the lawmakers who voted for that are suddenly concerned about the […]
President Trump responded on Thursday morning to recent revelations that a data firm his campaign worked with during the 2016 election used pilfered personal data to microtarget potential voters on Facebook — not with contrition, but by suggesting he’s proud of the scandal because it helped him win. “Remember when they were saying, during the […]
For going on five years now, Kayla Hicks has toiled in the trenches of community-led efforts to stop gun violence in black communities — primarily in her hometown of Hampton Roads, Virginia. She’s met with grieving relatives, organized protests, appealed to reporters and politicians for awareness campaigns, and raised money for local prevention programs — […]