We should all be appalled by Donald Trump’s tweet about Greta Thunberg
On Thursday morning, the President of the United States sent a tweet to his 60+ million followers blasting a 16-year-old girl with Asperger’s…
Continue ReadingOn Thursday morning, the President of the United States sent a tweet to his 60+ million followers blasting a 16-year-old girl with Asperger’s…
Continue ReadingAmericans: Watch the next few hours in the UK closely. If the Labour Party’s election night goes as disastrously as early exit polls foretell,…
Continue ReadingSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump’s top lawyer sketched out a plan Thursday to coordinate closely for an…
Continue ReadingFederal prosecutors investigating associates of Rudy Giuliani have focused on a Ukrainian state-owned natural gas company, a move that suggests…
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump on Thursday again publicly mocked teen climate crisis activist Greta Thunberg, tweeting that the 16-year-old Swede who has…
Continue ReadingNewly sworn-in Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear restored voting rights for over 140,000 former felons in the state through an executive order, his office…
Continue ReadingThe House Judiciary Committee is in the midst of a marathon session that will, eventually, end with a final vote on the two articles of impeachment…
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump has signed off on an initial trade agreement with China that would avoid imminent US tariffs and reduce the rates of existing…
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department on Thursday quietly published on its website some never-before-seen internal legal opinions that could help President Donald…
Continue ReadingTop congressional negotiators clinched a “deal in principle” to fund the US government, an agreement that comes a little more than a week…
Continue ReadingFormer New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s campaign on Thursday released a letter from the candidate’s doctor that says he is in…
Continue ReadingA federal judge in Utah said Thursday that American Samoans have an automatic claim to US citizenship. Read the opinion…
Continue ReadingElizabeth Warren came out swinging on Thursday as the Democratic primary slugfest heats up with Iowa on the horizon. Speaking in New Hampshire, the…
Continue ReadingA federal judge in Utah said Thursday that American Samoans are US citizens and should be issued new passports reflecting that. “This court is…
Continue ReadingThe National Security Agency hasn’t been deleting some of the material it collects as often as it should, according to an unclassified report…
Continue ReadingWith less than two months before the first votes of the 2020 presidential race, Joe Biden has re-emerged as the clear front-runner for the Democratic…
Continue ReadingSecretary of Education Betsy DeVos on Thursday defended her decision to move ahead with partial loan forgiveness for students defrauded by for-profit…
Continue ReadingThe US military tested Thursday a conventional missile that was previously banned by the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty that the Trump…
Continue ReadingHouse Democrats can now say they’ve taken action to lower drug costs. The chamber on Thursday passed a drug price bill backed by Speaker Nancy…
Continue ReadingSix executives detained in Venezuela for more than two years have been moved into house arrest — a small but insufficient step, their families…
Continue ReadingThe Senate on Thursday passed a resolution formally recognizing the mass killings of Armenians from 1915 to 1923 as genocide, a move the Turkish…
Continue ReadingFifteen appellate judges in Richmond on Thursday spent three hours showing how deeply divided they are on whether they can curtail the…
Continue ReadingThe New York City agency that regulates taxi drivers and for-hire vehicles on Wednesday sent out a guide on pronouns and how to use them, in an…
Continue ReadingThe Federal Communications Commission is moving ahead with plans to designate a three-digit number to reach the National Suicide Prevention Hotline:…
Continue ReadingAfter meeting for dinner in December 2018 on the sidelines of a major international summit in Argentina, President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi…
Continue ReadingWho’s a better president: The first one or the current one? A new Monmouth University poll asked that very question. And the answers —…
Continue ReadingSen. Elizabeth Warren wants to spend trillions of dollars on education, child care, green energy and health care. She argues that these proposals…
Continue ReadingThe White House held a summit on child care and paid leave on Thursday, an issue first daughter and senior presidential adviser Ivanka Trump has…
Continue ReadingLikely Democratic primary voters in California are about evenly split among the top three candidates — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth…
Continue ReadingMichelle Obama is spreading some holiday cheer, surprising students and teachers of an elementary school in Washington with a gift of $100,000,…
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