U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley welcomed U.N. Security Council envoys to Washington, D.C. on Monday — and made sure to include a tour of weapons that the Trump administration says are proof of Iran’s meddling in the war in Yemen. On Twitter, Haley called it “first-hand evidence from the Department of Defense of […]
An attack on a military academy on the outskirts of Kabul on Monday resulting in 11 deaths is the latest in a string of attacks that point to a worsening security situation in Afghanistan. This is taking place at a time when the United States seems to lack a coherent policy on the country where […]
Since the 1920s, companies seeking to build pipelines through national parks have had to obtain approval from Congress — but a single provision in the Trump administration’s proposed infrastructure plan could completely upend that status quo. According to a leaked draft of the infrastructure plan obtained by the Washington Post, the administration is considering proposing […]
A Mississippi school district voted last week to ban corporal punishment — big news considering the state has the highest proportion of children experiencing school corporal punishment in the country. Greenville School District in the Mississippi Delta voted Tuesday to put an end to the practice after a 2016 video showed a high school teacher pulling a special […]
Already home to some of the most abusive payday lending patterns in the country, a group of Florida lawmakers are pushing to expand the predatory products that companies can offer desperate families. The maximum size of a given payday loan would double under a bill moving through both houses of the state legislature. The measure, which […]
Only two percent of U.S. adults say they received a bonus or wage raise as a result of the Republican tax legislation passed in December, according to a Reuters-Ipsos poll released Monday. In the poll, 58 percent of respondents said the GOP tax bill benefits the wealthy and corporations, while just 13 percent say it […]
For 70 years, the Cleveland Indians have played baseball while sporting the image of Chief Wahoo, the team’s racist logo depicting a red-faced caricature of a Native American. But on Monday, Major League Baseball announced that the 2018 season would be Chief Wahoo’s last. According to the New York Times, the league now considers the […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents detained a 33-year-old Trinidad immigrant aboard a Greyhound bus in Florida last Thursday, the advocacy group Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC) said, possibly the third immigrant detained at the Ft. Lauderdale bus station in the recent two weeks. Andrew Anderson was aboard a Greyhound bus from Miami to Ft. Myers — on […]
This morning Fox & Friends, Donald Trump’s favorite TV show, ran a segment on the deadly flu season, which has killed at least 37 children so far. Dr. Marc Siegel, a practicing physician and Fox News contributor, suggested various techniques to avoiding contracting or spreading the flu and emphasized the importance of getting a flu shot. […]
Did you notice something absent from the podium at last night’s Grammy awards? Men won all but one of the televised awards. (Alessia Cara took home best new artist.) It was a disparity in recognition that would have been stunning in any context, but was particularly glaring against the backdrop of artists carrying white roses […]
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt was personally involved in the purging of information from the agency’s website in the early months of the Trump administration, according to documents obtained by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Soon after President Donald Trump took office, pages on the EPA’s website about climate change started disappearing or getting […]
North American trade talks set to end in March 2018 could continue on into 2019 amid sweeping demands from the United States and resistance from both Canada and Mexico. Officials initially thought renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would only take until March 31. Now, that’s looking increasingly unlikely. According to industry executives […]
At the Grammys, a mostly unremarkable and borderline-unwatchable 893,924 hour tribute to Sting that saw the promise that a deserving nominee might actually take home Album of the Year dashed faster than you can put your pinky finger to the moon, a few performances shone against the doldrums of the night. One of those highlights […]
