A Record Number of Families Are Crossing the Southern Border Illegally
Families from Guatemala are detained by Border Patrol agents after crossing the US-Mexico border without authorization along the Rio Grande in Texas in June. Jahi Chikwendiu/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The number of migrant families entering the United States illegally has reached a record high, according to Department of…
Ryan Zinke Fires Annoying Inspector General
Ryan Zinke, moral standard for our nation’s youth.Lou Maheda/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the latest from the most corrupt administration since … um, forever: At last count, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was the subject of 14 separate government investigations. (A new record!) But that number…
Getting the Kids to Vote
Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something I don’t get. Maybe it’s because I’m dumb. Or maybe it’s because I live in California and I don’t see the same TV ads as everyone else. But here it is. We liberals spend a lot of time…
Donald Trump Takes on the Disgrace of Low Postal Rates
Ryzhy the cat, Russian Post’s Employee of the Year, poses on top of a postbox in Omsk.Feoktistov Dmitry/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump doesn’t like international postal rates: The Trump administration opened a new front in Washington’s economic conflict with China, starting a process Wednesday to…
“The President Called Him Lyin’ Ted”: Beto O’Rourke Shifts Into Attack Mode
Tom Reel/San Antonio Express-News/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a revealing stat about the Texas Senate race by way of the Dallas Morning News: Over the last month, 80 percent of the ads paid for by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and his two allied super-PACs were attacks on…
His Classmates Called Him the N-Word. What This 12-Year-Old Did Next Will Melt Your Heart.
Tarrick Walker with his parents, Darlene and Marcel. Courtesy of John Walker/Fresno Bee Tarrick Walker was playing basketball with a group of friends at his California school when the 12-year-old heard a group of seventh-graders say something. He stopped playing basketball and walked over. “What’s happening?” he asked the group. The response, as Walker recounted it to…