A Private Prison CEO Is “Hopeful” About the Budget Deal’s Boost for ICE Detention
A guard at the Adelanto Detention Facility, an ICE detention center run by the GEO GroupJohn Moore/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As a congressional deal on border security funding came closer to passing yesterday, the CEO of the country’s largest private prison company told shareholders that he expects the…
The Bezos Affair Gets Even Weirder
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.Prensa Internacional via Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is not ordinarily a gossip site, but damn. The story we’ve heard so far about Amazon gazillionaire Jeff Bezos is that he sent a bunch of, um, below-the-belt selfies to his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, and then…
Retail Sales During December Slumped Badly
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Inflation Still Not Ready to Spiral Out of Control
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nobody cared much about yesterday’s inflation release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics because it didn’t show much of anything new. But that’s no reason to ignore it. Here it is: As you can see, the upward blip at the start of 2018 is long…
Here’s My Green New Deal
I don’t know what this biofuel researcher is doing, but whatever it is we need a lot more of it.Donal Husni/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What are you willing to sacrifice in order to fight climate change? And by you, I mean you. Obviously we already know that American…
Andrew McCabe Confirms 25th Amendment Discussions to Remove Trump From Office
Jeff Malet/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump wasted no time lashing out at former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe on Thursday following his revelation that Justice Department officials had discussed working with members of the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. The talks to try to remove Trump…