The United States will begin punching itself in the economic face with increasing vigor and speed until Mexico somehow stops every last northbound undocumented migrant, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday. The president plans to slap a 5% tariff on everything Mexico exports north, then hike it monthly to a maximum 25% tax by the […]
This week brought the teaming up of two extremely unlikely allies: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the young democratic socialist who has won over swarms of followers with her vibrant, engaged social media strategy, and Ted Cruz, a middle-aged, conservative Republican who, while he has his fans, is not exactly famous for being a media darling (or, for […]
Historic flooding continues to saturate large stretches of land across the Midwest and Southeast United States. And with swollen rivers and reservoirs, more rain in the forecast, and an administration working to undo environmental protections, the impacts to communities, crops, infrastructure, and the economy are expected to be severe. On Friday, just after midnight, a […]
China has raised tariffs on roughly 5,000 U.S. exports to the country, worth tens of billions of dollars, in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s trade policies. And on Thursday, Trump announced new tariffs on Mexico set to take effect in early June. Meanwhile, American farmers are caught in the middle of both. Chinese tariffs impact […]
Missouri’s only abortion clinic gets to keep serving patients who want to terminate their pregnancy, a judge decided Friday. The St. Louis Planned Parenthood clinic was set to lose its license to perform abortions on Friday, which would have made Missouri the only state with no abortion clinics since the Supreme Court legalized the procedure in […]
Three trans women have filed a lawsuit that challenges a provision of Pennsylvania’s name change law that doesn’t allow people convicted of some felonies, such as aggravated assault, to change their names. Alonda Talley, Chauntey Mo’Nique Porter, and Priscylla Renee Von Noaker are working with the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and the law firm […]
Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ), who was appointed to fill the vacant Senate seat of John McCain, is demanding an investigation to find out which administration official ordered the U.S.S. John S. McCain be hidden during the president’s visit to Japan last weekend. While this is far from the first slight by the Trump administration against […]
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the United States will impose new tariffs “on all goods imported from Mexico” unless the country does more to stop migrants from reaching the U.S. border. A 5% tariff is set to go into effect on June 10 if the country does not step up immigration enforcement measures. The […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants Congress to pass a law making it legal to indict a sitting president, in the wake of the troubling allegations against President Donald Trump outlined in special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report. “If Donald Trump were anyone other than the President of the United States right now, he would be […]
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham used her primetime Thursday evening slot to defend Paul Nehlen, a failed congressional candidate and anti-Semite who glorified the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter and who has been kicked off practically every social media platform — including far-right safe space Gab. Ingraham was discussing the so-called censoring of conservatives on social media with […]
Hurricane season begins in June, but thousands of people across the country still haven’t recovered from the record-breaking storms of the past two years. While disaster recovery is inherently a long process, under the Trump administration those impacted say the process has become untenable. The issue has been exacerbated through a combination of staffing shortages […]
