The first question Press Secretary Sarah Sanders fielded during Wednesday’s White House briefing was about a comment from President Trump just hours earlier. During a press event that took place shortly before the briefing, a reporter asked Trump, “Is Russia still targeting the U.S.? Is Russia still targeting the U.S., Mr. President?” “Thank you very […]
A Washington, D.C. resident who was subjected to a humiliating and forceful search of his private parts on a public street last fall has sued the officer seen probing his body in a viral video. Officer Sean Lojacono was part of a crew of cops who jumped out of squad cars to approach M.B. Cottingham […]
A Washington, D.C. resident who was subjected to a humiliating and forceful search of his private parts on a public street last fall has sued the officer seen probing his body in a viral video. Officer Sean Lojacono was part of a crew of cops who jumped out of squad cars to approach M.B. Cottingham […]
During the first White House press briefing in more than two weeks, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders didn’t rule out the possibility that President Trump will allow the Putin regime to question U.S. citizens — including a former American ambassador — whom Putin has accused of being involved in crimes. “Russian authorities yesterday named several Americans […]
State laws limiting the amount of money cities and towns can raise in property taxes each year have hamstrung municipal budgets and schools, engendered racial inequality, and further burdened low-income people, according to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). A total of 44 states and the District of Columbia […]
State laws limiting the amount of money cities and towns can raise in property taxes each year have hamstrung municipal budgets and schools, engendered racial inequality, and further burdened low-income people, according to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). A total of 44 states and the District of Columbia […]
Students who attended predatory for-profit colleges protested in front of two Illinois for-profit colleges Wednesday. Activists told ThinkProgress they are protesting to expose corruption at for-profit colleges and bring attention to the issue of rising student debt. The protesters gathered at the Illinois Institute of Art — Schaumburg, as well as The Illinois Institute of […]
Facebook wants you to know that it cares, deeply, about fake news. Ever since it emerged that Russian hackers and Cambridge Analytica exploited the social media giant during the 2016 presidential election to push divisive lies, Facebook has done its utmost to give readers the impression that it has the issue under control. It’s started education campaigns, published ads […]
More than 100 activists and employees took turns speaking at a packed Pittsburgh City Council hearing Tuesday on the proposed $2 billion expansion of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in the city’s Uptown neighborhood. They were there to demand that the health care giant agree to higher wages and unionization for workers before […]
UPDATE, 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time: In a statement to reporters Wednesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Trump was referring to requests for photos when he said “no” to a reporter who had asked if Russia was still targeting the United States, during a Cabinet meeting earlier in the day. “Like I […]
While much of the focus on Russian interference efforts over the past week has centered on the latest revelations about hacking and infiltration of the National Rifle Association (NRA), a letter written by a pair of senators highlights a different, potentially far darker strain of Moscow’s methods. The letter, addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, […]
The Trump administration has gone to the Supreme Court in an effort to stop a landmark climate case brought against the federal government by 21 children and young adults. The last-ditch effort comes ahead of a court hearing on the case scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. On Tuesday, Solicitor General Noel Francisco from the Department of […]
Iran has resorted to one of the few legal mechanisms at its disposal to call the United States to the mat: It filed a lawsuit before the International Court of Justice, alleging President Donald Trump’s May decision to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal and impose sanctions is a violation of a 1955 treaty between […]
Less than half of U.S. school districts are testing their drinking water for lead, according to a new government report. Those that do are seeing alarming results: more than a third found elevated levels of the substance, which can have severe and potentially deadly health consequences. Only 43 percent of school districts around the country […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — During a Senate roundtable Tuesday on “Voting Rights, Access, and Barriers in Indian Country,” North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) turned to the tribal leaders and voting advocates and asked a question they were all thinking. “Why should we have to sue every year in North Dakota to get voting rights for Native […]
The Hawaii legislature passed a law earlier this month ensuring the federal sex nondiscrimination protections found in Title IX extend to cover LGBTQ students as well. It’s a novel approach that mitigates the conflict over whether the protected category of “sex” applies to “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Several federal courts have ruled in recent […]
The federal health department has been quietly using funds from critical programs to rectify President Donald Trump’s immigration policy that forcibly separated more than 2,500 migrant families at the southwest border. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has pulled from at least $200 million in funds that were initially moved to the Office […]
President Donald Trump read a prepared statement on Tuesday in which he attempted to walk back remarks from his widely criticized joint press conference with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Trump then immediately contradicted himself and reverted to questioning the U.S. intelligence community’s consensus assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. Russian state media is really […]
On Wednesday, Fox News gave Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) a platform to spout complete fabrications about the purported censorship of conservatives on social media. Biggs’ interview came the morning after House Republicans held their second public hearing to browbeat Facebook, Google, and Twitter about their alleged censorship of conservatives — allegations that are not supported […]
European regulators on Wednesday slapped Google with a record-breaking $5 billion fine for violating anti-trust laws and abusing the popularity of its Android mobile Operating System. According to the European Commission, Google used a number of underhand tactics with Android, which “denied rivals the chance to innovate and compete…[and] denied European consumers the benefits of […]
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released new projections on Wednesday morning showing that the federal budget deficit will hit nearly $900 billion this year, and will top $1 trillion next year. The White House OMB now projects the deficit will rocket to $890B this year and top $1T through 2021.cc, uh, […]
Let’s not beat around the bush: Donald Trump is a serial liar. Almost everything that spills out of his insecure little mouth or springs forth from his Twitter account is either fabricated, exaggerated, finessed, or truncated. He dismisses as fake any evidence or fact that contradicts his lies. He shares as gospel any cockamamie poll […]
Shambhala International budgeted half a million dollars in pay and other compensation for its leader, prominent Buddhist teacher and author Sakyong Mipham, even after multiple women said they told officials at the Buddhist nonprofit that he sexually assaulted them. It allowed him and his family to live like royalty, documents show, even as most of […]
During an interview with Tucker Carlson that aired on Tuesday night, President Trump blatantly lied about NATO, claiming the United States covers 90 percent of the costs of the alliance. “We’re not going to pay 90 percent of the cost to defend Europe,” Trump said, echoing attacks on the alliance he recently made before and […]
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson began his interview, taped on Monday in Helsinki with President Donald Trump immediately after his appearance with Vladimir Putin, with a question about the news conference and the firestorm it unleashed after Trump defended Putin. Trump confirms he believes Putin over his own intelligence agencies “The reaction to your press conference […]
