Trump Has Abandoned Human Rights in North Korea
President Donald Trump greets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at their summit in Singapore last year.Shealah Craighead/Planet Pix/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Donald Trump emerged from a landmark meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in June, he touted the brutal regime’s “tremendous potential”…
Trump Judicial Nominees Are Refusing to Endorse Brown v. Board of Education
Neomi Rao, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 5.Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s no Supreme Court decision more widely celebrated than Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous 1954 ruling that…
EPA Scientists: The Toxic Chemicals Our Agency Won’t Regulate Are Definitely in Our Drinking Water
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update (2/14/2019): At a Thursday morning press conference, acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler released what he called a “Comprehensive Nationwide PFAS Action Plan” (press release here). However, the agency put off its decision about whether to set a maximum contaminant level in drinking water for two ubiquitous PFAS…
South Dakota Lawmakers Are Trying to Ban Schools From Teaching About Transgender Identity
LGBT activists hold a “We Will Not Be Erased” rally in front of the White House on October 22, 2018. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The South Dakota House of Representatives voted Tuesday to ban “instruction in gender dysphoria” for public school students in kindergarten through the…
Paul Manafort Lied to Robert Mueller About Russian Contacts, Judge Rules
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors about his contacts with a colleague who had suspected ties to Russian intelligence, activity that occurred while Manafort ran President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and continued into 2018. Judge Amy Berman Jackson found…
Twitter’s CEO Thinks Elon Musk Is Great at Twitter. These Messages Must Not Have Shown up in His Feed.
Elon Musk attends a Tesla factory groundbreaking ceremony in Shanghai on January 7.Xinhua/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that he likes “how @elonmusk uses Twitter,” during an interview conducted Tuesday on his company’s platform. Dorsey offered up Telsa CEO Elon Musk in response to a…