With more than a hundred climate activists gathered outside his office, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) said he would endorse the creation of a select committee for a Green New Deal. The announcement is the latest success for the youth-led Sunrise Movement’s lobbying efforts. Monday marked the largest convergence to date of Green New Deal supporters […]
Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes is on a roll. A really bad one. On Monday, YouTube banned both McInnes’ profile and channel, which had amassed more than 220,000 subscribers, the Daily Beast reported. McInnes, who had repeatedly used his shows to perpetuate misogyny, anti-Semitism and glorification of violence, was reportedly banned for “multiple third-party notifications of […]
In addition to the ongoing massive round up and detention of Muslim minority Uighurs in government-built internment camps, China has also detained a prominent Protestant pastor and around 100 members of his congregation. The New York Times reported on Monday that Wang Yi, who leads the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, was taken in […]
Brooklyn police officers tried to rip a one-year-old baby away from his mother while she waited at a public assistance office, a video uploaded to Facebook on Friday shows. Jazmine Headley had been sitting on the floor of the crowded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program office for hours before an argument between her and a security guard […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May called off a crucial Parliament vote on the U.K.’s Brexit deal Monday, the latest example of the chaos surrounding the U.K.’s attempt to leave the European Union. Earlier in November, May’s government published the full, 600-page draft of its Brexit deal, laying out a specific plan for how it would leave […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May called off a crucial Parliament vote on the U.K.’s Brexit deal Monday, the latest example of the chaos surrounding the U.K.’s attempt to leave the European Union. Earlier in November, May’s government published the full, 600-page draft of its Brexit deal, laying out a specific plan for how it would leave […]
One of the administrators responsible for protecting diversity among federal employees has effectively admitted that guidance protecting transgender workers was removed to make it easier to discriminate against them. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which oversees all federal employees, surreptitiously removed language from its website which detailed how to respect transgender […]
One of the administrators responsible for protecting diversity among federal employees has effectively admitted that guidance protecting transgender workers was removed to make it easier to discriminate against them. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which oversees all federal employees, surreptitiously removed language from its website which detailed how to respect transgender […]
The anti-abortion movement has long tried to end government funding for fetal tissue research, an issue that became a major flash point in 2015 when a heavily edited video falsely claimed that Planned Parenthood is “selling aborted baby parts.” Now, the Trump administration is curtailing the use of human fetal tissue in medical research, as […]
The anti-abortion movement has long tried to end government funding for fetal tissue research, an issue that became a major flash point in 2015 when a heavily edited video falsely claimed that Planned Parenthood is “selling aborted baby parts.” Now, the Trump administration is curtailing the use of human fetal tissue in medical research, as […]
The Supreme Court handed down a surprising order on Monday, announcing it will not hear a pair of cases asking, among other things, how much power conservative states have to defund Planned Parenthood. The order is surprising because, as Justice Clarence Thomas notes in a dissent joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, the […]
Days after hundreds of Chicago-area teachers became the first charter school educators in the country to go on strike, they reached a tentative deal on Sunday that addresses their concerns with low pay, large class sizes, and protections for the largely Latinx student body. The deal with Acero charter school management, which is expected to […]
Days after hundreds of Chicago-area teachers became the first charter school educators in the country to go on strike, they reached a tentative deal on Sunday that addresses their concerns with low pay, large class sizes, and protections for the largely Latinx student body. The deal with Acero charter school management, which is expected to […]
Protests and boos greeted a controversial U.S. side event promoting fossil fuels at the ongoing annual U.N. climate conference, COP24, on Monday morning in Poland. The event comes two days after the United States joined oil-rich nations in refusing to welcome a dire U.N. climate report released in October. Trump administration officials and businesses leaders […]
Last month, the voters of California’s 10th congressional district rejected four-term Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) in the midterm elections, choosing Democrat Josh Harder 52.3 percent to 47.7 percent. He faced tough odds: his district had favored Hillary Clinton in 2016 by three percentage points, and he voted with Donald Trump 97.8 percent of the time […]
Donald Trump announced on Saturday that current White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will resign at the end of the year. So far, the search for anyone willing to manage a chaotic White House and a goonish, know-nothing president is not going well. NEW: A source close to Mulvaney tells me he is no longer […]
It’s been a month since Democrats, who needed to flip 23 GOP-held seats in order to take back the House, routed Republicans in the midterms. And while regaining control of the House for the first time in eight years hasn’t been in doubt since a few hours after the first polls closed on Election Day, the exact margin […]
The fight to save net neutrality faces a key deadline in Congress on Monday. December 10 is the last day Congress can use an obscure maneuver — a discharge petition — to force a vote on repealing the Trump administration’s regulations killing net neutrality. President Trump’s FCC Commissioner, Ajit Pai, dealt a serious blow to […]