A Record Number of Families Are Crossing the Southern Border Illegally
Families from Guatemala are detained by Border Patrol agents after crossing the US-Mexico border without authorization along the Rio Grande in Texas in June. Jahi Chikwendiu/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The number of migrant families entering the United States illegally has reached a record high, according to Department of…
Democrats in Congress Are Going After the GOP for Trying to Cut Entitlements
Protestors oppose Republican cuts to Medicaid.Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With the midterm elections weeks away and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reviving talk that social spending programs need to be cut in order to reduce the deficit, Democrats in Congress are trying to…
Ryan Zinke Fires Annoying Inspector General
Ryan Zinke, moral standard for our nation’s youth.Lou Maheda/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the latest from the most corrupt administration since … um, forever: At last count, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was the subject of 14 separate government investigations. (A new record!) But that number…
Getting the Kids to Vote
Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something I don’t get. Maybe it’s because I’m dumb. Or maybe it’s because I live in California and I don’t see the same TV ads as everyone else. But here it is. We liberals spend a lot of time…
Donald Trump Takes on the Disgrace of Low Postal Rates
Ryzhy the cat, Russian Post’s Employee of the Year, poses on top of a postbox in Omsk.Feoktistov Dmitry/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump doesn’t like international postal rates: The Trump administration opened a new front in Washington’s economic conflict with China, starting a process Wednesday to…
“The President Called Him Lyin’ Ted”: Beto O’Rourke Shifts Into Attack Mode
Tom Reel/San Antonio Express-News/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a revealing stat about the Texas Senate race by way of the Dallas Morning News: Over the last month, 80 percent of the ads paid for by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and his two allied super-PACs were attacks on…