Put your candlelight vigils and mournful eulogies for NFL on hold — rumors of the league’s death have been greatly exaggerated. In 2017, the league made more than $8 billion in revenue for the first time in history, according to ESPN. That is a 4.9 percent increase from the previous year. While NFL ratings are […]
During a press event on Tuesday, President Trump tried to walk back widely-criticized comments he made the day before during a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin about how he believes Putin’s denials of Russian election interference above the consensus conclusion of his own intelligence community. There was a major problem with Trump’s attempt […]
A coalition led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Democracy Forward filed a motion on Tuesday to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who decided to sue the U.S. Bureau of the Census for counting undocumented immigrants in the decennial census. The legal groups decided to get involved because […]
As the bizarre spectacle of President Donald Trump’s press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin unfolded on Monday, the key reason many thought the two might have met essentially became a footnote: Syria. Russia, with help from Iran, has been militarily dominating in Syria, backing President Bashar al-Assad’s military in its fight against rebels, as […]
Coal executive Bob Murray on Tuesday railed against “government interference” in energy markets, calling for an end to tax credits for the wind energy industry. Speaking at the Politico Pro Policy Summit in Washington, D.C., Murray, the head of U.S. coal producer Murray Energy, said “we need to let the markets work.” Murray’s criticism of […]
Coal executive Bob Murray on Tuesday railed against “government interference” in energy markets, calling for an end to tax credits for the wind energy industry. Speaking at the Politico Pro Policy Summit in Washington, D.C., Murray, the head of U.S. coal producer Murray Energy, said “we need to let the markets work.” Murray’s criticism of […]
The world’s increasingly desperate effort to preserve a livable climate just took another hit, now that the two biggest climate villains — Putin and Trump — have clearly teamed up. But not only do we now know Russia worked hard to elect climate science denier Donald Trump as president, we also know they have been working […]
The world’s increasingly desperate effort to preserve a livable climate just took another hit, now that the two biggest climate villains — Putin and Trump — have clearly teamed up. But not only do we now know Russia worked hard to elect climate science denier Donald Trump as president, we also know they have been working […]
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt last July and served no jail time, tweeted Tuesday that “when someone commits a crime, they must do the time.” As the county’s top lawman, Arpaio was best known for running a tent city prison he called a “concentration camp” in which he tortured hundreds of […]
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt last July and served no jail time, tweeted Tuesday that “when someone commits a crime, they must do the time.” As the county’s top lawman, Arpaio was best known for running a tent city prison he called a “concentration camp” in which he tortured hundreds of […]
Two Republican judges, including one who was just recently appointed by Donald Trump, held on Monday that Trump has the power to fire the head of an obscure federal housing agency. The judges’ reasoning, however, could potentially extend much further, giving Trump authority over other agencies that are intended to be independent of the president. […]
Two Republican judges, including one who was just recently appointed by Donald Trump, held on Monday that Trump has the power to fire the head of an obscure federal housing agency. The judges’ reasoning, however, could potentially extend much further, giving Trump authority over other agencies that are intended to be independent of the president. […]
During his news conference on Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) downplayed Russia’s attack on U.S. democracy. In comments that amounted to an extremely mild rebuke of President Trump, Ryan acknowledged that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election, but in the next breath asserted they didn’t impact votes. “They did interfere in […]
MGM Resorts International, the hotel conglomerate that owns the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, has filed federal lawsuits against more than 1,000 victims of last year’s mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the suits contend that MGM should not be held liable for any death, injury […]
A number of Republicans in Congress have condemned, criticized, or expressed concern about President Trump’s disastrous performance during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland on Monday. Trump said he believed Putin over his own national security advisers, criticized the FBI for investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and bizarrely spoke […]
Since his inauguration, President Trump has done his utmost to make the American people as terrified as possible of the MS-13 street gang — and by extension, any immigrant from Central America. The president has tweeted lies about watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “liberate towns from the grasp of MS-13,” has claimed unaccompanied immigrant children […]
The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Maria Butina on Monday, alleging that the Russian national and her handlers used the National Rifle Association (NRA) to help “advance the interests of the Russian Federation.” Why has the NRA been cozying up to Russia? The Right to Bear Arms in Moscow enjoys a close relationship […]
The rest of the world is moving on without the United States. The European Union and Japan signed a benchmark trade deal Tuesday that effectively eliminates nearly all tariffs on the products they trade. European Council President Donald Tusk described the deal as the “largest bilateral trade deal ever.” “The EU and Japan showed an undeterred […]
A state Senate candidate in Arizona who shot and killed his mother said last week at a forum that he supports “good guys” with guns. “You can pass all the laws you want to in this world, and when you’ve got somebody out there that wants to harm somebody, they’re going to do it if […]
The U.S. Treasury Department announced Monday that it would no longer require politically active nonprofit groups to disclose their donors to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a move heralded by conservatives as a major win for “free speech.” Under the new rules, tax-exempt organizations like the National Rifle Association will no longer need to file […]
After watching his officers batter members of a large, angry crowd that gathered Saturday night in outrage at the Chicago Police Department’s latest killing of a black man in questionable circumstances, Superintendent Eddie Johnson decided to take an unprecedented step. Johnson released a brief snippet of body-worn camera (BWC) footage Sunday afternoon, hoping to quell […]
President Trump accused his predecessor, President Obama, of rigging the ongoing Russia investigation against him and instructing an FBI agent to carry out the task, during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity Monday night. FBI agent Peter Strzok, a former member of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation team, has long been a target of […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hundreds of Washingtonians took to the streets Monday evening in protest of reports that District of Columbia police officers had assisted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in rounding up a dozen D.C. residents on immigration charges over the weekend. The marchers stepped off from a city square in the Columbia Heights […]
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a joint press conference Monday following their diplomatic summit in Helsinki, Finland, and Trump’s performance shocked the world. Trump displayed his loyalty to Putin and disregard for his own top intelligence officials’ concerns about Russian meddling in American democracy. He spent far more time talking about Hillary […]
For many, Monday’s summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin was an unmitigated victory for Moscow. A photo op, a nominal end to Russian isolation, and, most importantly, a breathtaking moment of Trump coming to Russia’s defense against widespread conclusions that the Kremlin interfered in the U.S. presidential election — it […]
