President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to support a comprehensive immigration reform bill but then backed away from the idea during a bipartisan meeting with senators. During a publicly televised conversation with lawmakers, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) asked Trump whether he would support a “clean DACA bill now with a commitment that we go into into […]
In a sudden move that took many industry stakeholders by surprise, the Trump administration last month ended the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP), a database of more than 400 resources and programs geared toward the prevention and treatment of substance abuse and mental illnesses. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration […]
Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien is the first trans person to be killed in 2018, a grim statistic that comes only a few days into the new year. According to local reporting, Christa’s husband Mark Steele-Knudslien, 47, confessed to her murder and turned himself in to police in North Adams, Massachusetts on Friday. He reportedly told officers […]
According to a former Trump campaign manager, the “deep state” has a new member: a five-person independent regulatory panel that is almost entirely comprised of Trump appointees. On Monday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously rejected the Department of Energy’s plan to require certain grid operators to pay power plants that keep a 90-day supply of […]
Joe Arpaio, the far-right former sheriff from Arizona who was pardoned by President Trump last August, announced Tuesday that he is running for Senate. The Trump pardon saved Arpaio from jail time after he was convicted of contempt of court in a racial profiling case. The Washington Examiner first reported the 85-year-old’s candidacy, and Arpaio […]
A new NASA study is one final nail in the coffin of the myth that natural gas is a climate solution, or a “bridge” from the dirtiest fossil fuels to low-carbon fuels like solar and wind. NASA found that most of the huge rise in global methane emissions in the past decade is in fact from […]
During a news conference at Camp David on Saturday, President Trump made clear that he is unwilling to talk about providing legal protections for the nearly 800,000 Dreamers in the country unless Democrats agree to spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars on a border wall. “We want the wall — the wall is going […]
A federal judge on Tuesday ended a consent decree banning the Republican National Committee from engaging in ballot security activities, giving a major boost to Republicans’ efforts to suppress minority voters. The consent decree has been in place since 1982, when the RNC was found to be engaging in “voter caging” in predominantly African-American and Latino […]
On Monday, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) announced he will not seek reelection this year, and if Democrats play their cards right, the newly-open seat could play a big role in their fight to take back the House. Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is the latest in a line of Republican retirement […]
On Monday, two transgender individuals asked the Utah Supreme Court to allow them to change the gender markers on their identity documents. A state judge had granted them name changes in late 2016, but refused to grant them gender marker changes — a decision believed to be the first such denial in the state. They’ve […]
More people in Maryland are insured now than before the Affordable Care Act. Residents without insurance fell from 11.3 percent in 2010 to 6.1 percent in 2016. Still, there are thousands without insurance– many of whom qualify for federal assistance. Maryland consumer advocates fear federal action thus far undermines state efforts to get the remaining […]
When Ohio resident Joe Helle returned in 2011 from Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was eager to get back to his community and routine. He had always voted since he was 18, so in August 2011 he went to his polling place where he intended to cast a ballot in a special election […]
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), in an interview with Fox News Tuesday morning, blamed Democrats for a potential government shut down over their efforts to negotiate a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program Trump. .@marcorubio: "You can't shut down the government of the United States over DACA." pic.twitter.com/Yurhtn7tAJ — Fox News (@FoxNews) January […]
President Donald Trump attended the NCAA football national championship game in Atlanta on Monday night between Alabama and Georgia, but not everybody was happy to see him there. Before the game, junior Alabama running back Bo Scarbrough sent a very clear message to the president, audibly yelling “Fuck Trump” in the tunnel on the way […]
For more than five months now, Donald Trump has spent an inordinate amount of time fretting about professional football players taking a knee during the pregame singing of national anthem as a form of protest against racial inequality and police brutality. “Disgraceful,” “disrespectful,” and a “son of a bitch” are just a few choice descriptions Trump […]
The White House decided to renominate former deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland for U.S. ambassador to Singapore — despite continued scrutiny by congressional investigators in her role in possible Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. McFarland, a former pundit for Fox News, had her nomination frozen after questions were raised in December about whether […]
A Republican state legislator in Kansas said that marijuana should remain illegal in the state because African Americans are predisposed to respond worse to the drug because of their “character makeup” and “genetics.” Rep. Steve Alford, from the town of Ulysses in Kansas, made the comments during a weekend legislative coffee session, the Garden City […]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously rejected Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s plan to raise consumer energy bills in order to subsidize coal and nuclear power plants — a major blow to the Trump administration’s effort to slow the growth of solar and wind power. Back in September, Perry asked FERC, which oversees the U.S. grid and regulates […]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously rejected Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s plan to raise consumer energy bills in order to subsidize coal and nuclear power plants — a major blow to the Trump administration’s effort to slow the growth of solar and wind power. Back in September, Perry asked FERC, which oversees the U.S. grid and regulates […]
For months, President Donald Trump, through his attorneys, has repeatedly promised to fully cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, which includes the Trump campaign’s possible collaboration with Russian agents and potential obstruction of justice. But now that Mueller has expressed an interest in interviewing Trump himself, according to multiple reports, Trump’s legal team is […]
In what’s becoming an everyday news event, the infighting and incompetence that has characterized the first year of the Trump White House was again exposed last week, thanks to Michael Wolff’s new tell-all book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. The hoopla surrounding the book’s release, and the administration’s reaction to it, spurned […]
Seb Gorka is at it again. On Monday, the ousted White House staffer with alleged Nazi ties accidentally confirmed that White House staffers were told to speak to Michael Wolff, the author of Fire and Fury, the Trump tell-all book D.C. can’t stop talking about. In a column for The Hill Monday headlined, “Don’t believe Michael Wolff’s […]
Fairfax County School District in Virginia aims to improve its recruitment and hiring of teachers of color, since a recent study showed that the district discriminates against Black applicants. The George Mason University study does not mention Fairfax by name, but the Washington Post reported, based on its conversations with current and former school officials, that […]
