Sen. Susan Collins Says Brett Kavanaugh Believes the Right to Abortion is Settled Law
Tom Williams/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brett Kavanaugh believes that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, is “settled law,” Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) told reporters outside her office on Tuesday. Collins made the statement after a highly-anticipated meeting with Kavanaugh, who is President Trump’s…
Why a New Fisheries Bill Is Being Dubbed the “Empty Oceans Act”
People fish for steelhead in the Grand Ronde River.ed Conklin/ZUMApress.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network. What the farm bill is to terrestrial food production, the fish bill, a.k.a. the Magnuson-Stevens Act, is to the ocean—the law that governs America’s…
Indicted GOP Congressman Ends Reelection Bid
Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.)Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Embattled New York Congressman Chris Collins announced Saturday that he is suspending his reelection campaign—a move that comes several days after he was indicted on federal insider trading charges. Collins said in a statement that he will…
Puerto Rico Finally Admits It Wildly Underestimated Hurricane Maria Death Toll
Efrain Diaz Figueroa, right, walks by the remains of the house of his sister destroyed by Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto.Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This morning, the Puerto Rican government finally admitted that its official death toll for Hurricane Maria was a wild underestimate. A…
A Long-Shot Democrat Now Has a Chance at Congress After Trump’s Buddy Got Indicted
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Nate McMurray, the long-shot Democratic candidate in New York’s ruby-red 27th District, went out for a jog on an 88-degree Wednesday morning, he had just four campaign volunteers and a hair’s breadth of a chance to unseat Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY). Then, everything changed. …
Dana Rohrabacher Says Anyone “In This Town” Would Meet With Russians Peddling Political Dirt
Bill Clark/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Capitol Hill on Friday evening, I ran into Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who has earned the moniker “Putin’s favorite congressman.” In recent days, he has been linked in news reports to Maria Butina, the 29-year-old Russian woman who had spent years cozying…