During the White House news briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders struggled to deal with a series of questions about President Trump’s new school safety proposal — one that contains precisely zero provisions opposed by the NRA, and that represents an about-face from what he said in the wake of the Parkland school […]
For a guy with as many new presidential panels under his belt as full months in office, President Donald Trump sure is comfortable mocking them. A day before his administration trotted out his latest such panel — this one built to craft policy responses to the Parkland school shooting that’s occasionally put Trump crosswise with […]
On the heels of a 60 Minutes performance so bad it reportedly alarmed White House officials, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos took to Twitter to try to defend herself. “Here’s what we shared with 60 Minutes, which of course they didn’t show you: Michigan, like much of the nation, isn’t doing well enough to prepare students. Scores […]
On the heels of a 60 Minutes performance so bad it reportedly alarmed White House officials, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos took to Twitter to try to defend herself. “Here’s what we shared with 60 Minutes, which of course they didn’t show you: Michigan, like much of the nation, isn’t doing well enough to prepare students. Scores […]
CANONSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA — It was a sweet afternoon in Western, Pennsylvania, where Donald Trump Jr. visited Sarris Candies with Republican House candidate Rick Saccone in tow. Like Friday night’s rally that was also purportedly for Saccone, the afternoon was really all about Trump, who toured the store and factory, snapping selfies with workers and tasting […]
Police in Austin, Texas say they are treating a series of bomb explosions over the past week as a potential hate crime. The bombings, which have killed two people — including a teenager — and injured two more appear to have targeted minorities, with African American and Hispanic victims. All of the bombs also appear to […]
Police in Austin, Texas say they are treating a series of bomb explosions over the past week as a potential hate crime. The bombings, which have killed two people — including a teenager — and injured two more appear to have targeted African Americans. All of the bombs also appear to have been suspicious packages left […]
The attorney representing adult film star Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti, sent a settlement offer on Monday to the President of the United States. Avenatti said that Daniels would return $130,000 to Trump — the amount she was reportedly paid by Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen — in exchange for being formally released from the non-disclosure agreement she signed […]
The British government has officially blamed the Kremlin for the attempted murder of former spy Sergei Skripal with a nerve agent. Sergei, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Julia remain in a critical condition after being found slumped on a bench in the town of Salisbury, Wiltshire, last Sunday. A police officer who was one of […]
In the wake of last month’s school shooting in Parkland, hundreds of people have signed petitions urging business leaders to step down from the board of American Outdoor Brands, whose Smith & Wesson AR-15 was used in the mass killing. But the employer of one of those board members is defending her dual role as […]
In the wake of last month’s school shooting in Parkland, hundreds of people have signed petitions urging business leaders to step down from the board of American Outdoor Brands, whose Smith & Wesson AR-15 was used in the mass killing. But the employer of one of those board members is defending her dual role as […]
In a tense interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos failed to provide insight on Michigan’s struggling public schools, refused to acknowledge racial disparities in school discipline practices, and downplayed the pervasiveness of campus rape throughout the country. 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl asked DeVos about the secretary’s focus on school choice policies in […]
In a tense interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos failed to provide insight on Michigan’s struggling public schools, refused to acknowledge racial disparities in school discipline practices, and downplayed the pervasiveness of campus rape throughout the country. 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl asked DeVos about the secretary’s focus on school choice policies in […]
The Justice Department announced over the weekend that it had begun taking steps to effectively halt the sale of bump stocks, stopping short of calling the move an all-out ban. However, the decision is unlikely to go very far without congressional intervention. “Today the Department of Justice submitted to the Office of Management and Budget […]
Mining groups are pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an Obama-era rule banning uranium mining near Grand Canyon National Park in the latest push to open up public lands to industry. On March 9, the National Mining Association (NMA) and the American Exploration and Mining Association (AEMA) filed petitions asking the court to reverse […]
The Department of Justice filed a motion on Friday seeking to quash a challenge to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s new rule barring scientists who have received agency grants from sitting on EPA scientific advisory panels. By prohibiting scientists who have received EPA grants, Pruitt’s goal is to fill the advisory boards with industry-friendly members. […]
The White House debuted a new school safety proposal on Sunday evening that backtracks on the president’s previous comments about raising the minimum purchasing age from 18 to 21 for sales of assault-style weapons. Hours later, President Donald Trump himself tweeted that there was “not much political support” for the idea. “Very strong improvement and […]
The White House debuted a new school safety proposal on Sunday evening that backtracks on the president’s previous comments about raising the minimum purchasing age from 18 to 21 for sales of assault-style weapons. Hours later, President Donald Trump himself tweeted that there was “not much political support” for the idea. “Very strong improvement and […]
As you may recall, back when Donald Trump was just a candidate for president, he claimed that Judge Gonzalo Curiel, a U.S. citizen born in Indiana, was unable to be impartial towards Trump because of Curiel’s “Mexican heritage.” As president, Trump appears determined to make the judiciary white again. Since taking office more than a year […]
Public meetings for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s five-year offshore drilling plan wrapped up last week, but opposition to the plan — which would open nearly all federal waters to oil and gas extraction — doesn’t appear to be quieting down. The proposal, first made public in January, would open up 90 percent of […]
Erika Harold is seeking the Republican nomination for Illinois attorney general, but new comments have surfaced revealing antipathy for the LGBTQ community. Harold was crowned 2003’s Miss America, but it was at a Miss Illinois pageant in 2000 when she was asked about same-sex adoption. Harold’s mother was a social worker who placed children in […]
During an interview on Sunday’s edition of 60 Minutes, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos struggled to handle straightforward pushback about her plan to steer federal education dollars toward charter and private schools and away from traditional public schools. During an exchange with host Lesley Stahl that quickly went viral, DeVos was unable to explain how […]
A few weeks back, the Kansas City Star published excerpts from a December speech, made by Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley (R), in which he blamed human trafficking on the sexual revolution of the 1960s. His dubious take on history, made at a Missouri Renewal Project event featuring a who’s who of theocrats, Islamophobes, and […]
MOON TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA — If you’re wondering who Conor Lamb is, United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts offers this summary: a “God-fearing, union-supporting, gun-owning, job-protecting, pension-defending, social-security-believing, healthcare-greeting, sending-drug-dealers-to-jail Democrat.” At a Sunday afternoon rally at the Greene County Fairgrounds, Roberts was on hand to generate enthusiasm for Lamb, who’s running in the […]
The Supreme Court’s abortion cases frequently offer more of a window into the individual justices’ values, with Democratic justices favoring abortion rights, most Republican justices favoring the opposite, and Justice Anthony Kennedy clinging to a compromise that gives lawmakers fairly broad discretion to discourage abortion provided that they do not attempt to ban it outright. […]
