A bill to automatically decertify public-sector unions that fail to reach a threshold of 50 percent of dues-paying members may pass the Florida legislature this week. House Bill 25 would target all public-sector unions except those representing law enforcement officers and firefighters. Teachers unions criticized the measure, arguing that they are disproportionately targeted. Less than 10 percent […]
As soon as the clock on my wall ticked the final second, I flipped the calendar to a fresh page. Good riddance, 2017. It was, as Queen Elizabeth said of 1992, an annus horribilis, one that I won’t ever look back on “with undiluted pleasure.” It’s been a year filled with the racist outbursts of a […]
Southwest Airlines this week announced that it would be awarding its employees with a $1,000 bonus following the passage of the GOP tax bill, which the company’s board of directors said would “result in meaningful corporate income tax reform.” Union leaders say it hardly makes up for years of unfair treatment. “We applaud Congress and […]
A council leader in Britain has demanded police in the historic town of Windsor use legal powers to help clear the town of homeless people in time for the Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May. Simon Dudley is the Conservative Party council leader for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, […]
On the heels of the publication of a book excerpt that includes unflattering quotes about the president from former Trump campaign chief executive and White House senior strategist Steve Bannon, Trump has fired back. The Guardian and New York Magazine published excerpts of Michael Wolffin’s book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, on Wednesday. In […]
White nationalist and former Breitbart employee Tim Gionet, who goes by the name “Baked Alaska” on social media, says he was asked by his employers to remove anti-Semitic tweets during his time with the right-wing website. “You know I, back in the day, used to work at Breitbart and I literally was told many times—they […]
While President Donald Trump was focused on responding to Kim Jong Un’s nuclear taunts by saying the nuclear button on his desk is “bigger and more powerful” (he doesn’t actually have a button), North Korea took a key step in resuming diplomatic talks. North Korea on Wednesday announced that it would reopen a phone line […]
It’s been very cold over North America for days, but globally, 2017 has ended up smashing the record for the hottest year on record without an El Niño. And that has scientists worried, since the warmest years usually happen when the long-term human-caused global warming trend gets a short-term boost from an El Niño’s enhanced warming in the […]
District 211 in Palatine, Illinois continues to be a battleground for the national debate on whether transgender students should be respected at school. Last week, a federal judge ruled against a group of parents that sued to try to reverse the district’s inclusive policies, claiming those policies were a threat to their children’s privacy. Meanwhile, […]
For nearly two years, New York State has enforced a strict travel ban for public institutions on all non-essential travel to states where legislatures have passed harsh anti-LGBTQ laws. This week, the ban cost the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) three Division I baseball games. The ban was first implemented by Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo […]
During a segment on Fox & Friends Wednesday — President Trump’s favorite morning news show — host Brian Kilmeade argued that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was not “demographically pursuing justice“ in the Russia investigation because his federal grand jury included too many black jurors. The comment was in response to a leak published in New York […]
Police in Cartersville, Georgia responded to a call of apparent gunshots on Saturday night, but what they found was a house party with nearly 100 people celebrating a 21st birthday. When police arrived at the scene, something led them to believe there were drugs on the property. They reportedly entered the house without the permission […]
A witness who recently testified before Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s federal grand jury claimed in an interview with the New York Post’s Page Six this week that the jurors looked like they were all from “a Black Lives Matter rally.” “The grand jury room looks like a Bernie Sanders rally. Maybe they found these jurors in […]
Donald Trump’s handpicked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pick — the current acting director of the agency — said on Tuesday that he wants the Department of Justice to personally charge elected officials who do not comply with the administration’s immigration enforcement requests with federal crimes. On Fox News, Tom Homan expressed outrage that a new law […]
President Donald Trump is taking credit for what a new study is calling the safest year on record for commercial aviation. The president, however, is refusing to take responsibility for what his mine safety agency is saying was a year where almost twice as many coal mine workers died on the job than the final […]
On Christmas, President Trump tweeted that he’d be heading “back to work” the next day. He then played golf at one of his golf courses in Florida on seven consecutive days. During the first White House news briefing of the year on Tuesday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to defend Trump’s golf habit. […]
