Proponents of a carbon fee proposal urged a District of Columbia city council member on Tuesday to strengthen her draft climate bill to make it more effective in cutting carbon emissions. D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (D) is floating a draft proposal that includes a starting fee of $10 per ton of carbon pollution that increases to $100 […]
Proponents of a carbon fee proposal urged a District of Columbia city council member on Tuesday to strengthen her draft climate bill to make it more effective in cutting carbon emissions. D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (D) is floating a draft proposal that includes a starting fee of $10 per ton of carbon pollution that increases to $100 […]
During a news briefing on Tuesday, a reporter asked a question White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t want to spend much time answering. “Does Trump still think his response to the hurricane in Puerto Rico deserves a 10 out of 10 score now that estimates say almost 5,000 people died there?” Sanders replied […]
The day after President Trump abruptly canceled the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles’ visit to the White House, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was confronted about whether Trump understands why NFL players began demonstrating during the national anthem during the first place. “Is the president aware that this was about police-involved shootings, and not about disrespecting […]
After months of questions and a public admonition from the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Jill Stein presidential campaign has finally filed a series of missing financial documents with the FEC. The documents, filed on Monday, help answer some of the lingering questions about what became of the money the Stein campaign gathered for a […]
There’s no doubt emergency conditions exist that could easily be used to justify greater government intervention in the U.S. electric power industry. The planet is warming at a rapid pace and the government could take more urgent steps to prevent the conditions from growing even more dire. But when President Donald Trump ordered Energy Secretary […]
As the first women finally get the right to drive in Saudi Arabia this week — the only country in the world that continued to ban women from driving — several activists behind the campaign to fight for that right remain behind bars. Among the women being held since mid-May are Loujain al-Hathloul, Aziza al-Yousef, […]
During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions admitted that the Trump administration was separating immigrant infants and toddlers from their families at the southern U.S. border, claiming that it was their parents’ fault for bringing them to the United States illegally. “Most are not infants. Most are […]
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told members of Congress that her school safety commission will not focus on guns specifically in their role in school shootings. DeVos appeared before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies on Tuesday. She said the role of guns will not be considered in her […]
Activists with the national Poor People’s Campaign faced backlash from government officials and law enforcement during nationwide protests Monday. More than 100 people in Kentucky, Kansas, California, New York, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. were arrested or blocked from entering government buildings. The campaign, which marks 50 years since Martin Luther […]
Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Filemon Vela (D-TX) announced Tuesday that they will sign a discharge petition to bypass the GOP leadership and allow the House to consider a permanent solution for undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children. With their signatures, proponents will have 215 of the 218 signatures they need for the rarely-used […]
On Monday, the Supreme Court handled a “narrow” 7-2 victory to a baker who refused to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple. “Narrow” does not refer to the margin of the vote, but the scope of the decision — which, as ThinkProgress detailed, was “a compromise that was designed to resolve this one case […]
Simona Mangiante, the wife of former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, appeared on television this week and asked President Trump to pardon her husband, insisting he was not involved in any effort to collude with Russian officials and sway the 2016 election. “I know he did not [collude],” Mangiante said, during a segment on Tucker […]
The United Nations is urging the United States to end its policy of separating asylum-seeking families at the southern border. Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the U.N. human rights office, said Tuesday that she had received information from U.S. civil society groups that indicated several hundred children had been separated from their parents at the […]
By Jeremy Deaton Ten years ago Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes said he wasn’t worried about digital streaming. “I’ve been frankly confused by this fascination that everybody has with Netflix,” he said. Blockbuster’s head of digital strategy echoed this sentiment, asserting the company was “strategically better positioned than almost anybody out there.” Not long after, Blockbuster went the way […]
Hawaii’s Governor David Ige (D) signed a bill on Monday implementing the most ambitious climate law in the United States. The new law, which comes into effect July 1, sets the goal for the state to become carbon neutral by 2045. Along with the carbon neutral bill, Governor Ige also signed two other climate bills […]
Prominent Democrats are calling for a hearing into the death toll in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria last fall. A study published last week showed that the death toll may have been 70 times greater than the official number provided by the government. Members of the House Natural Resources Committee asked Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) […]
The Philadelphia Eagles were supposed to visit the White House on Tuesday to celebrate their Super Bowl victory, but late Monday evening, President Donald Trump abruptly canceled the appearance, issuing a statement full of his trademark blend of pettiness, dishonesty, and juvenility. “The Philadelphia Eagles are unable to come to the White House with their full […]
In a series of exclusive interviews, former Fox News Channel chief political correspondent Carl Cameron explained to ThinkProgress how the Russians coordinated their cyber-attack on the 2016 election with the Trump campaign. “Trump confidant Roger Stone’s success was having the connections and creating the opportunities for [Russian intelligence officer] Guccifer2.0 and other Russian groups to really […]
On Monday, a state judge ordered the Maine Department of Health and Gov. Paul LePage (R) to follow through on a voter-approved ballot measure and expand health care to thousands of residents, ending seven months of stonewalling. Last November, nearly 60 percent of Maine voters approved Medicaid expansion, making it the first state to expand the […]
Two days after Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) was denied entry to an immigrant detention center in Brownsville, Texas that houses undocumented children, President Trump sought to pin blame for his administration’s policy of separating children from their parents on Democrats. “Separating families at the Border is the fault of bad legislation passed by the Democrats,” Trump tweeted. […]
The head of Illinois’ National Rifle Associate affiliate inadvertently admitted on Tuesday that gun restrictions have helped prevent mass shootings in his state. Richard Pearson, the executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, made the argument on Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning while trying to make the case that additional gun laws are not […]
This is part two of ThinkProgress’s State of Conflicted Interest series. Over the past seven years, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has overseen a sweeping rollback of state environmental protections, implementing a suite of industry-friendly policies that have since been embraced by the Trump administration at the national level. During his tenure, Walker has cut back […]
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA — Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) likely knew the odds were against him when he announced his retirement in early January. The 13-term Orange County congressman was re-elected with 57 percent of the vote in 2016, but his largely Republican constituency also voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by 9 percentage points. […]
CLEVELAND, OHIO — Sherrod Brown didn’t want to talk about strategy. Asked by reporters Monday morning about his tactics as he faces reelection this fall, the two-term Democratic senator interrupted to say he wasn’t going to discuss it. But watching the scene as Brown interacted with constituents in a Cleveland community center after speaking at […]
