The House Votes to Reprimand Steve King for Racist Comments
Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday condemning comments that Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) had made about white supremacy—with even King himself voting for the measure, in an odd turn of events. It was a rare instance of unanimous agreement within…
Brexit Goes Down in Flames With 10 Weeks Left Until Doomsday
OK, I’ll admit that Theresa May doesn’t look too great after losing the Brexit vote. But she’s holding up better than I would.House Of Commons/PA Wire via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If a cold comes on really fast, that means it will go away really fast too. Right?…
Trump’s New Cybersecurity Agency Is Suffering a Major Setback Thanks to the Government Shutdown
gorodenkoff/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cybersecurity officials celebrated in November when President Donald Trump launched a new agency within the Department of Homeland Security focused entirely on protecting vulnerabilities in the federal government’s computer systems. But just over a month after the agency was established, nearly half of the staff of…
William Barr’s Testimony May Not Sit Well With Donald Trump
Alex Wong/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Based on Tuesday’s testimony by William Barr, Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, the president may already regret the nomination. Trump has spent nearly two years raging against the Justice Department for allowing special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties…
William Barr Is Shaping Up Nicely as Trump’s Attorney General
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From CNN: Attorney General nominee William Barr shared a controversial memo last year with nearly all of President Donald Trump’s lawyers concluding that an aspect of special counsel Robert Mueller’s case could be “fatally misconceived,” Barr acknowledged Monday….Barr discussed the…
Trying to Understand the Green New Deal
I guess yellow is the official color of the Green New Deal. I wonder who picked that?Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’ve made an affirmative decision not to pay too much attention to the “Green New Deal” until there’s at least a little bit of…