The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to cease military assistance to Saudi Arabia and its coalition airstrikes in Yemen, which have resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians and a massive humanitarian crisis in the impoverished country. Moving with the procedural grace of a painfully slow gallstone, senators cast a largely symbolic vote of […]
On Friday, Dec. 21 — unless Congress passes a budget or continuing resolution — the government shuts down when it runs out of money, and hundreds of thousands of employees would be furloughed or asked to work without guarantee of pay. President Trump said he would be proud to own the blame if the government […]
It took Christine Stenquist years to find something to take the edge off of her chronic pain. Bedridden for a decade and a half after doctors discovered a brain tumor, she suffered from nausea triggered by pain medication that also gave her depression and insomnia. After exhausting options afforded by standard medicine, Stenquist decided after […]
Judge Richard Leon, a senior U.S. District Judge who sits on the District Court for the District of Columbia, is the judge you want when what you want is to own the libs. Yet, in an order handed down Wednesday, Leon suggested that even he has limited patience for that merry band of misfits and […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban took another step closer to becoming Europe’s premier autocrat by passing a law that effectively nullifies the country’s independent judiciary. Under the new legislation, which passed through the Hungarian Parliament on Wednesday, the country’s supreme court is now stripped of its ability to judge what are known as administrative disputes. […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban took another step closer to becoming Europe’s premier autocrat by passing a law that effectively nullifies the country’s independent judiciary. Under the new legislation, which passed through the Hungarian Parliament on Wednesday, the country’s supreme court is now stripped of its ability to judge what are known as administrative disputes. […]
Trump administration officials told lawmakers on Wednesday that they believe making federal buildings energy efficient within a 10-year time frame — a core part of the Green New Deal championed by Rep-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — is both a reasonable and achievable goal. At a House Energy and Commerce Committee Energy subcommittee hearing, Rep. David McKinley […]
While most Michigan residents were sleeping Thursday morning, the state’s lame-duck GOP legislature passed a measure that would ban doctors from prescribing the abortion-inducing pill via internet webcam. The House voted 62-47 to renew the 2012 “telemedicine ban” that was due to expire at the end of this year. The bill now moves to the […]
On Tuesday, during a public meeting with Democratic congressional leaders, President Trump threatened to shut down the government if he did not receive billions of dollars to construct his border wall. On Thursday morning, he completely undercut his argument by asserting that Mexico was paying for the wall because of the money America saves from […]
When Arnie Arnesen was elected to the New Hampshire state House of Representatives in 1984, she was 31 years old and pregnant. “I couldn’t afford infant daycare,” she remembers, “so I showed up and breastfed on the floor of the House.” Her district was well northwest of the state capitol, so the combination of the […]
The Senate is set to vote late Wednesday or early Thursday on a resolution to end the United States’ support for the Saudi-led coalition that is responsible for thousands of civilian deaths in Yemen’s civil war. A largely symbolic vote at this point, joint resolution 54 (the shortened monicker of the resolution’s full name, “A joint resolution to […]
SOUTH KENSINGTON, MARYLAND — A 40-year-old mother of three forced to seek sanctuary in a Maryland church was formally received there Wednesday with song, prayer, and a mix of sorrow and defiance. Rosa Gutierrez Lopez has lived in the United States for 13 years. All three of her children, including a six-year-old with Down Syndrome, […]
After video of officers trying to violently rip Jazmine Headley’s infant son out of her arms at a Human Resources Administration center in Brooklyn went viral this week, Headley was released Tuesday from Rikers Island, where she was held for five days on charges of resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and trespassing, and acting in a manner […]
After video of officers trying to violently rip Jazmine Headley’s infant son out of her arms at a Human Resources Administration center in Brooklyn went viral this week, Headley was released Tuesday from Rikers Island, where she was held for five days on charges of resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and trespassing, and acting in a manner […]
Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to federal campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and perjury earlier in the year. In statements to the court, Cohen, who served as legal counsel to both President Trump and his business and as former deputy finance chair for the Republican National Committee, […]
Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to federal campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and perjury earlier in the year. In statements to the court, Cohen, who served as legal counsel to both President Trump and his business and as former deputy finance chair for the Republican National Committee, […]
