Trump’s Choice to Lead Pentagon Withdraws Amid Reports of Violent Family Turmoil
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Patrick Shanahan, President Donald Trump’s acting secretary of Defense, withdrew himself from the nomination process for the permanent job Tuesday—a decision that coincided with media reports about alleged domestic violence incidents involving his ex-wife and son. Trump announced the move on Twitter and said Shanahan would “devote more time to his family.” Acting…
Trump Says ICE Will Start Removing “Millions of Illegal Aliens.” Here’s What’s Actually Happening.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrest an undocumented Mexican immigrant during a raid in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 11, 2018.John Moore/Getty On Monday evening, one day before officially launching his reelection bid, President Donald Trump tweeted that Immigration and Customs Enforcement will soon begin “the process of removing” millions of undocumented immigrants…
Where Are All the GOP Defense Hawks?
DoD/ZUMA I guess we now have an acting-acting defense secretary: President Trump on Tuesday withdrew the nomination of Patrick M. Shanahan to be the permanent defense secretary, leaving the Pentagon in transition at a time of escalating tensions with Iran and questions about the role of the military at the border with Mexico….The move leaves…
Raw Data: Suicide Rates Among Men and Women
Axios reports today on “Generation Z’s suicide epidemic.” Among the older half of Generation Z, suicide is the “highest it’s been since at least 1999.” That’s true, and among girls it’s the highest it’s ever been. But among boys it’s not quite at its peak from the late 80s and early 90s—though it will get…
Republicans Claim Outrage Over Ocasio-Cortez’s “Concentration Camps” Remarks
Tom Williams/ZUMA Republicans are claiming outrage after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) compared immigration detention centers along the southern border to concentration camps—remarks she first made during an Instagram Live session late Monday and has since defended. “That is exactly what they are: They are concentration camps,” Ocasio-Cortez told her followers on Monday. “I want to…
Facebook’s Libra: Is it the Western We Chat or the New Dollar?
Your puny flags mean nothing to Mark Zuckerberg. Soon he will be the emperor of the world.Panoramic via ZUMA Facebook’s new cryptocurrency is here, and it’s . . . pretty ordinary. On its surface, Libra appears to be a payment mechanism that mimics what WeChat does in China, but Facebook claims that Libra is a…