Trump Will Give the Medal of Freedom to One of His Biggest Donors
Miriam and Sheldon Adelson at President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugurationRichard Ellis/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The White House announced today that next week President Donald Trump will award the Medal Freedom to seven American luminaries: Elvis Presley, Babe Ruth, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former pro…
Their Lives Were Forever Changed by Gun Violence. So They Ran for Office and Won.
Lucy McBath speaks at a rally in Atlanta on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018.Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In one sense, Election Day was a bit of a letdown for the Parkland survivors-turned-activists. The March for Our Lives teens had led the biggest protest in US…
This New Yorker Cover Shows Why the Midterms Were so Huge for Women and People of Color
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re still wondering whether the midterms were a win for women and people of color, The New Yorker just previewed its upcoming cover—which aptly illustrates why the results were a cause for celebration. An early look at next week’s cover, “Welcome to Congress,” by Barry…
Deep Inside a Pro-Putin Network That’s Helping Trump Divide America
Putin and Trump at a summit in Helsinki, July 2018Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every day, the roughly 600 Kremlin-linked accounts tracked in real time on the Hamilton 68 dashboard dive into the hot Twitter topics of the moment. They have fanned rancor over the NFL’s #TakeAKnee…
Donald Trump Doesn’t Want All the Votes in Florida to Be Counted
President Donald Trump is now supporting former Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s claims of fraud in the 2018 election.Don Montague/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Three days after votes were cast, the results of elections in Georgia and Florida are still uncertain. But that hasn’t prevented the president from spreading…
Beto O’Rourke Mobilized So Many Democratic Voters That They Swept Even Local Judges Out of Office
The 19 black women who were elected as judges in Harris CountyHarris County Democratic Party Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Beto O’Rourke didn’t manage to boot Ted Cruz from the Senate this week, but he got a consolation prize: His long-shot race for Congress drew an unprecedented number of Democratic…