Новости за 09.09.2018

Migrant families separated at the US-Mexican border under President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy have suffered “life-altering” emotional trauma, according to a lawsuit demanding that the government provide counseling for those affected. The federal class action lawsuit was filed last week by families torn asunder at the US-Mexico border under the administration’s family separation policy, CNN reported. […]

It’s the first Sunday of the new NFL season, and President Trump wasted no time indulging in one of his favorite hobbies: attacking the league over players protesting police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem. In a tweet sent out Sunday morning, Trump tried to make a connection between a year-over-year decline in ratings of […]

Washington State is a vote-by-mail state. Voters receive their ballots at least 18 days before the election, and their ballot is counted so long as it is postmarked by Election Day. Voters may also submit their ballots in person at drop boxes. This was the first year that voters in King County, the state’s largest […]

A mass exodus of workers is depleting the ranks of the Environmental Protection Agency, shrinking the federal office tasked with safeguarding America’s natural resources to its smallest size in decades, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. Since President Trump has taken office, 1,600 EPA employees have departed the EPA. The Post notes that this has shrunk […]

Nike’s online sales spiked by 31 percent from the Sunday before Labor Day through the next Tuesday, eclipsing the 17 percent growth Nike saw during the same period in 2017. This followed Nike’s announcement of an ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback who was allegedly blacklisted by the league because he protested […]

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh needs to give Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) plausible deniability regarding his anti-abortion views. Collins, who is nominally pro-choice, said shortly before Kavanaugh’s nomination that a Supreme Court nominee “who would overturn Roe v. Wade would not be acceptable to me.” But she’s spent much of the time since his nomination […]

The war between coastal governors and the Trump administration over offshore drilling escalated this weekend, as California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a pair of bills that would effectively prevent new drilling projects off the state’s coasts. The bills would accomplish its goal by “prohibiting new leases for new construction of oil and gas-related infrastructure, such as […]