Trump Meets with Megadonor Sheldon Adelson and the Republican Jewish Coalition
Trump smiles and points at Sheldon Adelson before his speech. Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump appeared in Nevada on Saturday afternoon, addressing the conservative Republican Jewish Coalition, where he mocked Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, one of the first two female Muslim Americans to…
Stephen Colbert Hits Trump Where It Hurts—His E-Score
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this week the New York Times released some new polling data on President Trump, but as Stephen Colbert discovered while combing through it, it’s not the top line approval numbers that are likely to get under Donald Trump’s skin most—it’s his E-score. That’s a…
Donald Trump Has Shot Himself In the Foot on Immigration
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post reports that President Trump plans to double the number of guest workers allowed into the country: DHS and the Labor Department plan to grant an additional 30,000 H-2B visas this summer on top of the 33,000 H-2B visas they had planned to…
Rep. Ilhan Omar Keeps Getting Death Threats
Douglas Christian/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, federal court filings revealed that a New York man, Patrick W. Carlineo, had been arrested and charged with threatening to assault and murder Representative Ilhan Omar. The Democratic congresswoman, who represents a Minneapolis-based district, was first elected to Congress in 2018,…
Trump Lawyers Up to Fight the Release of His Tax Returns
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump has hired a new set of lawyers specifically to fight Democratic attempts to wrest his tax returns out of the hands of the Internal Revenue Service—an escalation of his long-standing refusal to reveal much detail about his personal finances. While…
This Faith Leader Sees Climate Change as a Moral Emergency
Rev. Mariama White-Hammond (right) joins her mother, Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond (left), in song and prayer during a women’s conference at the Jubilee Christian Church in Boston on May 5, 2017. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and…