Pelosi Says She Will “Support” Any Bipartisan Border Legislation
See? There’s a new spirit of comity and bipartisanship breaking out in Washington these days.CNN Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is interesting: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that she would be willing to support any compromise border-security legislation that emerges from a bipartisan committee and that she…
Here’s a Closer Look at President Trump’s Big Lie About El Paso
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At last night’s State of the Union address, President Trump said this: The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our Nation’s most dangerous cities.…
NASA Just Announced 2018 Was the Fourth-Hottest Year on Record
David McNew/Stringer/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s official: Last year was the fourth hottest year on record, after only the previous three, according to separate figures released Wednesday morning by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA. Several other monitoring organizations, including the United Kingdom Met Office,…
The Award-Winning Author Who Wrote a Book From Prison, One Text at a Time
Behrouz BoochaniCourtesy of Amnesty International Kurdish Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani has spent nearly six years locked in a detention center on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, barred from entering Australia under the nation’s hardline immigration policies. But prison didn’t stop Boochani from writing a book, composed one WhatsApp text at a time to his…
David Duke Has a New Favorite Candidate for 2020: Tulsi Gabbard
Win McNamee/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since launching her campaign for president on January 11, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has had to weather one controversy after another, from a shakeup in her campaign leadership to resurfaced allegations of her ties with nationalists and foreign autocrats. Tuesday brought more…
The Attorney Nominated to Replace Kavanaugh Backtracked on Her Defense of Dwarf Tossing
Neomi Rao, nominee to the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit./Antonin Scalia Law School Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Neomi Rao, President Trump’s nominee to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the DC Circuit court of appeals, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that articles she had written opposing bans…