President Trump has long praised himself for “saving” more than a thousand jobs at Carrier, a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning company with locations across the globe. Now, however, a New York Times report has revealed morale at the company’s Indianapolis, Indiana factory has reached an all-time low. Months ahead of the 2016 election, Carrier announced […]
The water, the food, the baby supplies, the Tylenol, and more — at least ten trailers full of donations intended for victims of Hurricane Maria — were found rotting and rat-infested in a parking lot at a state elections office in Puerto Rico. Authorities admitted that the supplies had been sitting there for a year, […]
It’s been one year since a parade of tiki torch-wielding, polo-shirted Brock Turner lookalikes weaseled through the University of Virginia’s campus chanting, “Jews will not replace us!” A year since James Fields, Jr. rammed his Dodge Challenger into a crowd and murdered Heather Heyer. Unlike the actual genocide for which their swastikas stand, the anniversary […]
Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) is abandoning his 2018 re-election campaign, amid insider trading allegations and a federal indictment earlier this week. Collins is said to have passed nonpublic information he received regarding a failed drug trial by Australian biotech company Innate Immunotherapeutics to his son last year, before Innate announced the news publicly. Collins’ son, […]
Ahead of the anniversary of last year’s deadly Unite the Right rally, Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that America needs to “come together as a nation” and condemn all types of racism. “The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division.We must come together as a nation,” Trump tweeted Saturday morning. […]
Twitter says it will not suspend controversial right-wing radio host Alex Jones or his Infowars website, despite the fact that several of his tweets violated its community guidelines. The decision comes on the heels of a CNN report, which found more than a dozen instances that both accounts violated the social media giant’s rules prohibiting […]
A devastating natural gas explosion and fire ripped through a Maryland apartment complex killed seven people, including two children, and injuring dozens more. The survivors — mostly poor and Latino — just marked the second anniversary of the disaster this week still waiting for answers from federal investigators about the cause of the tragedy that has upended […]
The Unite the Right rally last August brought the lurking specter of white nationalism to the mainstream’s attention. But that brought with it a major crackdown, with tech companies shutting down white nationalist accounts and websites, fundraisers tightening rules to make it difficult for them to raise money, and counter-protesters publicizing white nationalists’ identities and […]
The Unite the Right rally last August brought the lurking specter of white nationalism to the mainstream’s attention. But that brought with it a major crackdown, with tech companies shutting down white nationalist accounts and websites, fundraisers tightening rules to make it difficult for them to raise money, and counter-protesters publicizing white nationalists’ identities and […]
The Unite the Right rally last August brought the lurking specter of white nationalism to the mainstream’s attention. But that brought with it a major crackdown, with tech companies shutting down white nationalist accounts and websites, fundraisers tightening rules to make it difficult for them to raise money, and counter-protesters publicizing white nationalists’ identities and […]
When 44 Klansmen strode into Washington, D.C. on Sept. 3, 1990, they had plans to march down Constitution Avenue to the U.S. Capitol. But some 3,000 city residents had a different idea. Faced with massive resistance, the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were forced to take a bus with police escort to the east […]
