Barack Obama Tells Voters Exactly Why Donald Trump Is Stoking Fears About the “Caravan”
Bastiaan Slabbers/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former President Barack Obama on Sunday mocked his successor’s efforts to fear-monger over the so-called “caravan” of migrants coming to the United States, warning supporters that such tactics were designed to distract from larger Republican goals, including scaling back health care access and…
Trump Attempts to Distance Himself From Potential GOP Electoral Disaster
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump appears prepared to distance himself from a potential Republican loss in the House of Representatives, telling reporters on Sunday that he has been largely focused with the Senate for some time. “My primary focus, of course, has been on the Senate because…
“It’s a Ghost Page”: EPA Site’s Climate Change Section May Be Gone for Good
Andrew Wheeler, the EPA’s acting administrator, addresses senators at a committee hearing. Win McNamee/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than a year after the US Environmental Protection Agency took down information on climate change from its website for…
Judge Orders Trump to Turn Over Details of His Hotel Business
AP Photo/NewsBase Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For nearly two years, cases accusing the president of violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution—which bars top officeholders from receiving financial benefits from foreign governments—have crept through the federal court system, but a significant turning point came on Friday afternoon, when a…
Trump Is Still Blaming the ‘Far-Left’ Media for America’s Divisiveness
President Donald Trump talks to reporters before he travels to Fort Myers, Fla., for a campaign rally on Oct. 31, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a campaign rally for Florida Republican candidates on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump redoubled his attacks on the media, again claiming the…
While Dedicating a Monument to Black Civil War Soldiers, Ryan Zinke Praises Robert E. Lee
“To attempt to link Lee’s achievements for the Confederacy which embraced White Supremacy to that of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is not a slight oversight but a huge historical misappropriation that the descendants of enslaved Africans cannot accept or tolerate,” Malik Russell, an NAACP spokesman, said in an email. “Dr. King’s work united our…