A major electric utility company wants Energy Secretary Rick Perry to rescue its coal and nuclear plants, along with other companies’ plants located in the eastern United States, by declaring an “emergency” in the power industry. The request was widely panned by industry officials and experts, with one company describing the scenario as a “manufactured […]
In a statement Thursday, the Department of Defense admitted that the White House did play a role in drafting President Trump’s newest ban on transgender people serving in the military. This directly contradicts White House statements that it was not involved and further reinforces reporting that Vice President Pence intervened, overruling recommendations from Defense Secretary […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has seen serious pushback since it voted to repeal net neutrality last December. At least 27 U.S. states are now considering their own replacement net neutrality legislation, and 21 attorneys general have filed suit against the FCC for repealing the Obama-era regulations, which prohibited Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from slowing down […]
The European partners in the Iran nuclear deal are worried that President Donald Trump is about to tear up the deal — so worried, in fact, that on Wednesday night, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom tried to push through new sanctions against Iran to appease him. But, Reuters reports, the tactic did not work […]
Advertisers are beginning to drop like flies from The Ingraham Angle after its host mocked Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg for not getting into four University of California colleges. “David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it,” the Fox News host tweeted. “(Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable […]
The public comment period on the Trump administration’s proposed five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan wrapped up a few weeks ago, but the administration is already moving forward with plans to open up parts of the Arctic Ocean to fossil fuel extraction. On Thursday, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) officially began soliciting comments from […]
The NRA is very, very mad at ThinkProgress. NRATV, the gun lobby’s live-streamed propaganda outlet, spent most of Wednesday deriding our reporters. NRATV’s Twitter account repeatedly tweeted insults at us. They’ve called us “a fraud,” “people who read with pictures,” and “obscene.” “There are countless stories in mass shootings & in robberies where someone with […]
Eleven protesters were arrested Wednesday night in New York’s Times Square after a solidarity rally to mark the killing of an unarmed Sacramento man by police 10 days earlier. As marchers and cops clashed in New York, police back in Sacramento were readying a significant change in tactics for Thursday night’s planned NBA contest at the […]
President Donald Trump’s legal problems are such that his longtime attorney, Michael Cohen, has had to hire an attorney, David Schwartz, to represent him. Over the last couple of days, Schwartz has made numerous media appearances to defend Cohen and, ultimately, Trump. It is not going well. On Wednesday night, Schwartz argued on CNN that […]
Prices for solar, wind, and battery storage are dropping so rapidly that renewables are increasingly squeezing out all forms of fossil fuel power, including natural gas. The cost of new solar plants dropped 20 percent over the past 12 months, while onshore wind prices dropped 12 percent, according to the latest Bloomberg New Energy Finance […]
In 2015, a New Jersey jury came to a unanimous verdict that the Jewish ex-gay organization JONAH was guilty of consumer fraud for advertising treatments they claimed could change a person’s sexual orientation from gay to straight. Though the court ordered JONAH to shut down, a new complaint from the Southern Poverty Law Center contends […]
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency will end its practice of automatically releasing pregnant immigrant detainees to “better align” with President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, according to official documents sent Thursday to Congress and reviewed by ThinkProgress. The four-page policy directive and an appending FAQ indicates that the ICE agency will […]
California is on the front lines of President Donald Trump’s efforts to rollback car and light truck emissions standards as a battle brews between the administration and state officials. Trump’s presidency has made for an interesting dynamic in California where state officials are taking action to drastically reduce air pollution in order to protect the […]
Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin deserved to be fired — but not for the likely reason he was was actually ousted this week. Trump announced his decision to replace Shulkin with Rear Admiral Ronny L. Jackson in a tweet on Wednesday. Jackson is best known as the White House physician who touted Trump’s health during […]
A Texas elementary school art teacher was suspended after at least one parent complained that she mentioned her sexual orientation to students, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The art teacher, Stacy Bailey, was placed on leave in September. Earlier this month, Dallas Morning News reported that parents and teachers were intent on finding out why […]
The Green Mountain State is known for three things: its maple syrup, its dairy products, and its liberalism. Two of these things are unimpeachable, but their liberalism is routinely called into question any time the conversation veers towards guns. Thanks to its geography, Vermont appeals to the outdoorsy crowd, including gun owners. For this reason, […]
Federal agents detained 28 undocumented immigrants at a tent rental business in southern Florida Wednesday, according to multiple local reports. But a federal agent denied to ThinkProgress that this was an “immigration raid.” On Wednesday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division served a search warrant to TentLogix and asked people […]
The scandal surrounding Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who claims to have had an affair with Donald Trump, just got worse. It started when David Schwartz, an attorney for Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen, appeared on CNN last night. Schwartz told CNN’s Erin Burnett that Trump “was not aware of” the non-disclosure contract signed by […]
Seventeen-year-old David Hogg, the outspoken Parkland shooting survivor and student activist, is asking his supporters to boycott advertisers on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, after the host mocked Hogg on Twitter for being rejected by four University of California schools. Earlier in the week, Hogg gave an interview with TMZ in which he explained his college application […]
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday night to fire another member of his administration — this time, Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs David Shulkin. The move is the latest in an all-too-familiar cycle for the Trump administration: lie, fire, repeat. Just two days before Trump made public his decision to appoint his personal doctor to […]
Organizers in Texas are launching an intensive effort to educate and unite communities along the state’s border with Mexico, amid an onslaught of legislation targeting immigrants at the national and state-wide level. It’s the latest indication that progressive activists are prepared to fight back against hardline government crackdowns. Texas immigration advocates and lawmakers announced Wednesday […]
The Nebraska legislature voted Wednesday evening to deny federal family planning funds to Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, inching closer to a conservative goal to defund abortion providers. Lawmakers voted 44-4 to advance a main budget bill that excludes providers associated with abortion from the federal Title X program. The amendment to the budget bill […]
The Nebraska legislature voted Wednesday evening to deny federal family planning funds to Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, inching closer to a conservative goal to defund abortion providers. Lawmakers voted 44-4 to advance a main budget bill that excludes providers associated with abortion from the federal Title X program. The amendment to the budget bill […]
Cynthia Eaglin remembers her old neighborhood – on Robinson Place in Washington, D.C.’s hardscrabble and beleaguered Ward 8 – as a glorious community. In 1991, when she moved in to Parkway Overlook Apartments, she was a 21-year-old single mother with three children. For the next 16 years, the red-brick, multi-family complex of subsidized housing in […]
Cynthia Eaglin remembers her old neighborhood – on Robinson Place in Washington, D.C.’s hardscrabble and beleaguered Ward 8 – as a glorious community. In 1991, when she moved in to Parkway Overlook Apartments, she was a 21-year-old single mother with three children. For the next 16 years, the red-brick, multi-family complex of subsidized housing in […]