Puerto Rico Governor Boycotts Congressional Hearing
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.Gerardo Mora/EFE via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is refusing to attend a Republican-led congressional hearing Wednesday that will focus on management upheaval at the island’s troubled electric power authority. In a letter sent Wednesday morning, Rosselló sharply criticized…
Republicans Have Been Putting a Ton of Work Into Screwing Over Endangered Species
A grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming Jacob W. Frank/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a brutal legislative session for endangered plants and animals. Just in the past week and a half, Congressional Republicans moved forward at least a dozen measures intended to gut the Endangered Species Act.…
Elizabeth Warren Tore Into Trump’s Consumer Watchdog Nominee Over Family Separations
Bill Clark/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) had harsh words on Thursday for Kathy Kraninger, Trump’s nominee to lead the primary federal agency tasked to be a watchdog for consumers against Wall Street excess. Ever since Warren proposed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and helped create that agency following…
Trump Says White Supremacist Terror Is Fake News. These Chilling Cases Prove Otherwise.
Suspects in custody in Portland, OR, and Orange County, CABeth Nakamura/The Oregonian/AP; Ken Steinhardt/The Orange County Register/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four days after a homemade bomb blew through the window of a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, in August 2017, Sebastian Gorka, then a national security aide to President…
Democratic Frontrunner Who Abused Ex-Wife Wins South Carolina Primary
Mother Jones illustration; Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Archie Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs managing director who has long been viewed as the Democratic frontrunner in the primary for the House seat representing South Carolina’s 5th District, won his party’s nomination Tuesday night, meaning he’ll move forward to November despite divorce records made public…
Thousands are “Dying” Across the Country to Mark the Two Year Anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Protesters participate in a die-in Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Florida, across the water from the Mar-a-Lago resort, to mark the anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At noon Tuesday, Capitol Hill was littered with the bodies of high school students from…