There’s a 700,000-Case Backlog in Immigration Courts. Jeff Sessions Just Decided to Pile On More.
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past 10 years, the backlog in America’s immigration courts has nearly quadrupled to roughly 700,000 cases. On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a decision that could dramatically expand that backlog at a time when immigrants often wait years before judges…
If China Really Wants to Buy $200 Billion More Stuff From Us, We Can Make It For Them
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New York Times warns that concessions by the Chinese in trade negotiations are probably a mirage: Chinese negotiators are preparing to offer the administration a deal to buy up to $200 billion worth of American goods….But the Chinese promises would be largely illusory, economists…
Today’s High School Massacre Is Texas’s 8th Mass Shooting Since 1984
A county sheriff’s officer at the scene of Santa Fe High School. Stuart Villanueva/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Texas has a unique and prominent gun culture—and mass shootings are becoming an ever more prominent part of it. The state has seen at least 8 mass shootings since 1984, including…
“I’ve Always Kind of Felt Like Eventually It Was Going to Happen Here Too”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly after at least eight people were killed inside Santa Fe High School in Texas Friday, a 17-year-old student who survived the shooting appeared on ABC’s Houston affiliate station to share details of the harrowing experience. Her head down for most of the interview, Paige…
Rudy Giuliani Can’t Handle This 1998 Clip of Him Blowing Up His Own Trump Claims
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani has repeatedly argued that a sitting president does not have to comply with a subpoena, asserting that if one were to be issued in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, Trump has the authority to resist it. “He’s the…
Did “Wild, Wild Country” Leave You Hungry for More?
Netflix Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Netflix’s new documentary series Wild, Wild, Country is a fascinating tale of the Rajneesh movement’s time in rural Oregon. A spiritual organization with its roots in India, the Rajneeshees moved to, and eventually took over, Antelope, a hamlet about 3 hours away from Portland.…