United States Gets an F for Failing to Help Its Neediest
Jerry Kinchen, 61, accepts food from a religious mission pantry in Holiday, Florida, in August 2009.Kainaz Amaria/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A blistering report delivered to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council Friday morning slammed America’s record on poverty, two days after ambassador Nikki Haley announced that the United States…
Trump’s Secretary of State Is Apparently Clueless About This Week’s News
Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State of the United States of America addressees the Detroit Economic Club Meeting held at Ford Field. Jeff Kowalsky/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the Trump administration tries to dig itself out of the firestorm it made, separating 2,342 migrant children from their parents in just five…
The Trump Administration Kept Changing Its Story on Child Separation
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier today, President Donald Trump declared that he will be signing an executive order to end forced family separations at the border between the US and Mexico. Now that things may be changing, it’s worth reflecting on how, over the past week, the Trump Administration…
Protesters Blast Mike Pence for “Ripping Children From Their Families”
Natacha Pisarenko/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Outrage continues to rise around the country about the Trump administration’s forced separation of immigrant children from their parents. On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence was interrupted during a tax reform speech in Columbus, Ohio, by protesters who heckled him about the detention…
Here Are 4 Hard-Hitting Cartoons a Pro-Trump Newspaper Tried to Bury
Cartoon by Rob Rogers Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, veteran editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers was abruptly fired from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after a string of anti-Trump illustrations were spiked from the newspaper. Rogers, who joined the Post-Gazette in 1993, says 19 cartoons or proposed drawings were killed by…
The Most Heartbreaking, Infuriating Stories From Trump’s Family Separation Policy
A protest in front of an ICE office in Florida on June 1Wilfredo Lee/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After weeks of heart-wrenching stories about nearly 2,000 migrant children being taken from their parents by federal officials, the controversy over the Trump administration’s family separation policy is finally coming to…