Trump Now Says He Didn’t Know Anything About Whitaker’s Anti-Mueller Comments
Jim Loscalzo/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Before Matthew Whitaker, now the acting attorney general, entered the Justice Department as Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff, he raised his public profile as a television pundit attacking special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. But in a new interview on “Fox…
A Judge Dealt a Potentially Fatal Blow to the Keystone Pipeline
Indigenous leaders and climate activists disrupt business at a Chase Bank branch in Seattle to protest funding tar sands development and projects like the Keystone XL pipeline.Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a slew of climate-friendly ballot initiatives went down in flames on Election Day in Arizona,…
California Republicans Ponder Their Darkest Hour
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A full 11 days after the polls closed in California, the Associated Press has called the 39th House district for Democrat Gil Cisneros, who snatched a narrow victory from his Republican rival, Young Kim. The night before, news broke that Katie Porter, an Elizabeth Warren…
Donald Trump Has a Sneaky New Way To Help Religious Employers Deny Women Birth Control
areeya_ann/iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past two years, the Trump administration has been trying to gut access to birth control coverage for women: It proposed rules that would allow almost any employer to claim moral or religious exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s mandate of…
There Are Now More Than 14,000 Immigrant Kids in Federal Custody—a New Record
Immigrants walk into a building at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.Charles Reed/US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The number of immigrant children in federal custody has reached an all-time high, with more than 14,000 children currently being held in government facilities, the San…
“Senator, Why Are You Being Arrested?”
Sen. Nikema Williams (D-Atlanta) is arrested by capitol police during a protest over election ballot counts in the rotunda of the state capitol building Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Atlanta. John Bazemore/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The morning of Tuesday, November 13, started out like many others for…