Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After “Zero Tolerance” Was Reversed
A wave of Central American migrants gather in an effort to get to the border crossing to apply for asylum in the United States. Hayne Palmour Iv/San Diego Union-Tribune Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. The Trump administration has quietly resumed separating immigrant families…
A Damning New Memo Reveals How the Trump Administration Is Failing Migrant Children
The Tornillo facility in Texas.US Department of Health and Human Services/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A “tent city” for migrant children in Texas has been operating for months with staff who never completed the required FBI background checks, according to a federal watchdog memo released Tuesday afternoon. The…
Stacey Abrams’ Allies Sue Georgia, Alleging an Unconstitutional Election System
Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks to her supporters during her election night watch party in Atlanta, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Allies of Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who came up just short in Georgia’s gubernatorial election this month, sued the…
John Bolton Has a Baffling Excuse for Refusing to Review the Khashoggi Tape
Sergei Fadeichev/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. National Security Adviser John Bolton has not listened to the tape recording of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, a recording the CIA and Turkish officials have determined shows the Saudi crown prince personally directed the brutal killing—nor does he appear to have any intention of…
This Critique of America’s Military Was Perfectly Timed to Increase the Pentagon Budget
Commission On The National Defense Strategy co-chairs Eric Edelman (L) and retired Navy Admiral Gary Roughead testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the commission’s findings. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The release of a landmark, independent assessment of the Pentagon’s national defense strategy earlier this…
The Trial Over Trump’s Census Citizenship Question Did Not Go Well for the Administration
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the census on October 12, 2017. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The deeper the Trump administration got into a three-week trial challenging its controversial decision to add a question…