What Would Be the Consequences If Sessions Broke His Recusal and Fired Mueller?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the conservative organization Turning Point USA’s High School Leadership Summit in Washington, DC, on July 24. Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump triggered a new wave of panic in Washington, DC, on Wednesday morning when he urged Attorney General Jeff…
Sanders Defends Trump on Needing an ID to Buy Groceries
Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a White House press briefing in July.Michael Brochstein via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was put in the awkward position Wednesday of explaining President Donald Trump’s bizarre assertion that people need to present photo identification to buy groceries.…
The New York Times Fails to Name and Shame Climate Villains
Lisa Blue/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New York Times Magazine has just published an ambitious and heavily-promoted issue entitled “Losing Earth,” which is entirely devoted to telling a single complicated story: How the world missed its window to address climate change. Nathaniel Rich’s historical narrative looks at the politicians, scientists, public officials,…
Experts Warn Congress That Facebook and Twitter Can No Longer Set Their Own Rules on Foreign Disinformation
Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC), (R), speaks while flanked by ranking member Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), (C), and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA), during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill, on August 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony about foreign influence on social media platforms. Mark Wilson / Getty Images News Looking…
Trump Plans to Announce $500 Tax on All American Households Today
Ringo Chiu via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal reports: The White House, looking to ratchet up trade pressure on China, is expected to announced today that it is more than doubling the size of the proposed tariffs to 25% from 10% on $200 billion of…
A Judge Just Told the Government to Stop Medicating Immigrant Kids Without Consent
Unaccompanied minors sleep in a holding cell at a US Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville, Texas in 2014. Eric Gay/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to stop medicating detained immigrant children without consent and to release some…