It feels like only a short time ago that President Donald Trump was insulting North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, engaging in name calling and threats everywhere from Twitter to the floor of the United Nations. And yet, on Monday, CNN’s Jim Acosta tweeted an image of a commemorative coin that marks the potential upcoming U.S.-North […]
Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) is trying to crowdfund President Trump’s border wall. Black is pushing legislation to establish a dedicated fund where Americans could make donations for the wall, which Trump administration have said will cost at least $20 billion — and which Trump promised Mexico would pay for. Real immigration reform cannot be achieved […]
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — On a humid, sunny Sunday afternoon, dozens of Puerto Ricans dashed around the sprawling green hill leading to Castillo San Felipe del Morro, the looming 16th century citadel that crowns Old San Juan. Kites dotted the sky, helped along by the wind, which famously provides the area with powerful gusts on […]
Before last night’s Billboard Music Awards got underway in earnest, host Kelly Clarkson went off-script. “There’s something I’d like to — this is gonna be so hard — there’s something I’d like to say about the tragedy at Santa Fe High School,” where just days before, ten people were killed and 13 others injured at […]
On Sunday, The New York Times reported that special counsel Robert Mueller “hopes to finish by Sept. 1 the investigation into whether President Trump obstructed the Russia inquiry,” citing comments made to the publication by Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani later clarified his comments saying Mueller would finish the obstruction portion of his inquiry by September 1 […]
Last October, when the Supreme Court heard a landmark challenge to Wisconsin’s gerrymandered state assembly maps, there appeared to be a real danger that the state’s lawmakers would soon have to compete in a free and fair election. More than half a year later, the fate of partisan gerrymandering appears even more uncertain — and […]
In a truly remarkable feat of innovation, scientists have figured out how to create “hybrid” solar cells that generate power not just from sunlight but also from raindrops. This means we may soon see all-weather solar panels that work when it is cloudy and even at night, if it’s raining. Solar has soared in recent […]
For his first foreign policy speech on Monday morning, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo chose a target he knew he could not miss: Iran. Pompeo spoke about the future of the Iran deal at the conservative Heritage Foundation, taking questions from neither the press nor audience members, and answering only a few friendly ones from Heritage […]
For his first foreign policy speech on Monday morning, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo chose a target he knew he could not miss: Iran. Pompeo spoke about the future of the Iran deal at the conservative Heritage Foundation, taking questions from neither the press nor audience members, and answering only a few friendly ones from Heritage […]
If elected leaders won’t tighten gun laws in response to school shootings, maybe it’s time for parents to go on strike by keeping their kids home indefinitely. That’s the approach some high-ranking former Education Department officials are recommending after a mass-shooting in Texas claimed the lives of 10 people at Santa Fe High School in Santa […]
The Supreme Court held on Monday that employers can force their employees to sign away many of their rights to sue their employers. As a practical matter, Monday’s decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis will enable employers to engage in small-scale wage theft with impunity, so long as they spread the impact of this theft among many […]
Billionaire Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich was left in limbo this week after his U.K. visa expired, as British authorities have not yet granted him a new one. Though it’s unclear why a new visa was not immediately issued, the move follows closely on the heels of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to expel 23 […]
Four days after President Trump called undocumented immigrants “animals,” the White House released a statement indicating administration officials have no regrets about it — in fact, quite the opposite. Over the span of 10 paragraphs, the statement — entitled “WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIOLENT ANIMALS OF MS-13” — refers to MS-13 members […]
In the face of mounting scrutiny over attempts to scrub all mentions of climate change from a report about sea level rise, the National Park Service (NPS) has finally released its long-awaited report. The uncensored report was quietly released on Friday with no mention by the NPS, the Department of Interior, or its Secretary Ryan Zinke’s Twitter […]
Ten people were killed in a school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas Friday. It was the 101st mass shooting so far in the United States in 2018, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The alleged shooter, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, was a student at the school. He has been charged with capital murder and aggravated assault […]
Many of President Donald Trump’s top aides have lately found themselves at the center of a wide-ranging criminal investigation run by special counsel Robert Mueller. Defending yourself in this sort of matter can be extremely expensive. Those in need of a top-flight white collar criminal attorney can expect to be charged upwards of $750 an […]
Democrats in Georgia have a chance to make history this week if, as some political experts predict, they elect the woman who could become the nation’s first black woman governor. Democratic and Republican voters in primary balloting in the state head to the polls Tuesday to elect their respective party’s nominee for governor. For Democrats, […]
Paul Spencer has known his fellow Democrat Clarke Tucker, for a long time. To hear him tell it, the Tucker he knows is a “man of integrity and values.” But something changed when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) showed up in town. “Clarke… spent $350,000 over the last couple weeks. He bought a poll, […]
Lying in a psychosis ward bed, Amelia Perry couldn’t shake thoughts of suicide. The noise blaring from other patients in the hallway and the bright lights above felt like too much. Perry, a 25-year-old trans person, was in the hospital seeking help. Days earlier, Perry (who asked at admission to be identified by gender-neutral pronouns […]