Retired coal miners stand to lose their benefits following a company’s bankruptcy, leaving the future of union contracts at other mines across the country in doubt as the industry continues to falter. One of the oldest coal mine operators in the United States, Westmoreland Coal Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last October, and in […]
A tax preparer in Indiana refused to serve a same-sex couple this month, objecting on the grounds that her religious beliefs reject same-sex marriage. Such discrimination is totally legal, and shines a light on the stasis in which LGBTQ rights have been suspended since the state’s 2015 “religious liberty” debacle. Bailey and Samantha Brazzel married […]
In his ongoing war with U.S. intelligence agencies, President Donald Trump is now challenging the military’s longstanding conclusion that climate change poses a serious national security threat to America, appointing a fringe climate science denier to lead the effort. Trump has decided to assemble a Presidential Committee on Climate Security, spearheaded by William Happer, one of […]
The North Carolina Board of Elections held a fourth day of hearings Thursday to get to the bottom of one of the largest cases of potential election fraud in modern U.S. history. Republican candidate Mark Harris emerged from the 2018 midterms with a lead of just under 1,000 votes over Democratic contender Dan McCready. But […]
Three weeks after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) admitted to having worn blackface in the 1980s and apologized for (and then denied) appearing in a racist photograph in his medical school yearbook, he is still governor. And while polls indicate that the plurality of Virginians do not want him to resign and hand over the […]
Actor Jussie Smollett, who was hospitalized late last month after an apparent racist, homophobic hate crime, has turned himself into the police and faces felony charges for allegedly orchestrating his own assault. Smollett was arrested by the Chicago Police Department on Wednesday night, less than a month after he told police he’d been assaulted by […]
The white nationalist motivations of alleged domestic terrorist Christopher Paul Hasson are plain to see. Hasson, a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant who was arrested last Friday on a drugs and gun charge, had compiled a hit list of prominent Democratic lawmakers, dreamed of using biological weapons against his enemies, and amassed an arsenal of more […]
The language barriers between officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and indigenous immigrant and asylum seekers have life-or-death consequences, according to a new report released by the Center for American Progress. The CAP report was conducted in response to the deaths of Maya children in the custody of the Customs and Border Protection […]
Led by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), approximately 92 members of the House of Representatives have signed on to a joint resolution aimed at terminating President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border. Castro tweeted his intent to draft a resolution late last week, shortly after the president announced he will bypass […]
States cannot ignore the Constitution when imposing fines or confiscating people’s property in civil or criminal cases, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled Wednesday. The decision in Timbs v. Indiana means change is on the wind for the widespread and chronically abused law enforcement tactic of civil asset forfeiture. It will also have sweeping implications for […]
