President Donald Trump declared Obamacare dead Wednesday after Congress passed its deeply unpopular $1.5 trillion tax overhaul bill. “Obamacare has been repealed in this bill,” he told reporters. Not only was he factually incorrect — as the bill only repeals the tax penalty for not having insurance — his statements were premature. The Centers for Medicare […]
President Trump’s effort to ban transgender people from joining the military suffered yet another setback Thursday — its first at the appellate level. If such defeats continue, transgender people will be allowed to start enlisting on January 1, which is less than two weeks away. The Trump administration is defending its ban on transgender military […]
Handed a sweeping defeat by jurors on Thursday, federal prosecutors offered no sign of surrender in the felony prosecutions of nearly 200 more people arrested in connection with an Inauguration Day protest where some marchers smashed windows and brawled with cops. The first six defendants, acquitted on all charges Thursday after a month-long trial and […]
In its fifth year of an almost incomprehensibly violent civil war, South Sudan is now grappling with severe food shortages, which according to the Associated Press, have put 1.25 million people on the brink of starvation. Citing U.N. statistics, the AP reports that if fighting continues at this pace, half of the country’s population of […]
Eight of America’s biggest banks will receive a $15.3 billion windfall next year thanks to the recently passed GOP tax plan, according to a private report from Goldman Sachs obtained by ThinkProgress. Seven of the country’s biggest banks will save between $704 million and $3.7 billion next year due to the corporate tax rate reduction, […]
Every day over the past seven months, Jorge Taborda has woken up with a sense of purpose at the Holy Cross Retreat Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. When groups of people in need of spiritual renewal arrive at the retreat center, he is there to help clean up and to contribute to the group activities. […]
Fossil fuel divestment activists must have been successful campaigners in 2017. Instead of finding coal in their stockings, activists are receiving promises from top government and institutional leaders that future holiday seasons will be free from investments in fossil fuels. One of those commitments came from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), who over the […]
A pro-Trump nonprofit says it is spending $1 million to air a new pro-Trump ad that concludes with a little girl saying, “Thank you President Trump for letting us say ‘Merry Christmas’ again!” America First Policies — a group including Trump’s digital and data director Brad Parscale, freshly-indicted former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, and […]
A federal judge ruled this week that Atlanta had justification for firing Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran after he published a book condemning homosexuality and distributed it to subordinates. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the anti-LGBTQ hate group that defended Cochran, still claimed a victory because the judge ruled against the city’s rules requiring “pre-clearance” before […]
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), one of the more recent critics of President Donald Trump, appeared on MSNBC on Thursday morning and conceded that if Trump moved to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, there would be an “uprising and revolt.” But when he was asked what specifically he would do, Corker answered, “I don’t know, I […]
For weeks, critics of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Trump administration have pushed a widely debunked conspiracy theory that she sold 20 percent of America’s uranium to Russia in exchange for a large donation to the Clinton Foundation. On Thursday, NBC News reported that, on orders from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of […]
During a CNN interview on Wednesday evening, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) admitted that he’s discussed Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign with the White House. Asked by anchor John Berman if he’s “had conversations with the White House about the Mueller investigation,” Jordan initially tried to talk over Berman and ignore the question. […]
This year has not been great for the cause of democracy – in fact, 2017 could easily be called the Year of the Authoritarian. Hardliners from Asia to Latin America tightened their grip on power, granting themselves sweeping powers: controlling their judiciary, rewriting their constitutions or, in fact, enshrining their doctrine into their country’s constitution. […]
President Donald Trump celebrated the passage of a Republican tax bill that cuts taxes on wealthy individuals and big corporations Wednesday. Republicans have promised that the legislation will stimulate the economy because corporations, now relieved in part of their tax burden, will turn around and invest in jobs and increase worker wages. But in the […]
Standing nearly seven feet tall, professional basketball player Enes Kanter is a hard man to talk down to, physically or otherwise. He’s been a solid contributor in his first season playing with the Knicks, but what really earned him the respect and admiration of New York’s hardened fans was his mouth, as he’s shown a […]
AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson announced on Wednesday that his company would be giving out $1,000 bonuses to some 200,000 employees as a result of the recent tax bill passage — but union officials representing those workers say the situation is far more complicated than AT&T is letting on. “Congress, working closely with the President, […]
