A Federal Judge Just Ordered the Trump Administration to Fully Restore DACA
DACA recipients and others at a rally in Washington, D.C.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge ruled Friday evening that the Trump administration must fully restore Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that shielded undocumented immigrants who came here as children from deportation. This doesn’t mean that the…
Trump Trade Deficit Keeps Soaring
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ha ha ha. The latest trade deficit numbers are out for the second quarter, and Donald Trump still can’t get it right: It keeps going up and up! Other countries are laughing at us! Even that weakling Obama had a better trade deficit! What a…
New Documents Show Trump’s Election Integrity Commission Was Preparing Report on Voter Fraud Without Proof
Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach at the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in July of 2017. Andrew Harnik/AP, File Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s election integrity commission intended to trumpet findings of voter fraud before it…
NRA Says It Could Soon Go Broke in New Court Filing
Zach D Roberts/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the National Rifle Association remains curiously silent in response to questions over its ties to an alleged Russian spy, it appears the gun lobby group is now facing another major headache—one the group claims directly threatens its very existence. In a…
Raw Data: US Steel Production Since the End of the Recession
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here is monthly raw steel production in the United States since the end of the recession in 2009: The US averaged about 7.3 million tonnes of steel production per month between 2010-2014. That dropped to about 6 million tonnes in 2015, and we’ve been slowly…
Trump Administration Says the ACLU Should Reunite Separated Families
The DOJ now says the the ACLU should use its “considerable resources” to reunite families.Luis Pablo Hern¡Ndez/EFE via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a week after missing its deadline to reunite all the migrant families it separated at the border, the Trump administration has a new solution:…