The Mass Exodus of Top Trump Immigration Officials Continues
Customs and Border Protection acting Commissioner John Sanders speaks at a news conference proposing legislation to address the crisis at the southern border at the Capitol on May 15.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Update: President Donald Trump is expected to name Mark Morgan the next head of Customs and Border Protection. Morgan is the acting director of…
Alabama’s Top Elections Official Thinks Voting Shouldn’t Be Easy. Now He’s Running for Senate.
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill speaks to the media after a special Senate election on December 12, 2017, in Montgomery. Brynn Anderson/AP John Merrill, Alabama’s Republican secretary of state who made national headlines in 2016 by asserting that registering to vote and casting a ballot should not be easy, declared his candidacy for the…
Progressive Insurgent Tiffany Cabán Declares Victory in the Primary for Queens DA
Queens District Attorney candidate Tiffany Cabán embraces a supporter on June 11 after a press conference of civil rights activists calling for an investigation into the false conviction of the Central Park Five. Bebeto Matthews/AP Update, 11:30 p.m. ET: Tiffany Cabán has declared victory in the primary election for district attorney in Queens. With 99.5…
A Minnesota Killer and Serial Rapist Will Serve Less Than Six Years for the Murder of Lorri Mesedahl
A Star Tribune article on Lorri Mesedahl’s murder in 1983.Newspapers.com A Minneapolis murderer and serial rapist, Darrell Rea, slipped through the fingers of local law enforcement for decades after killing 17-year-old Lorri Mesedahl in 1983—sexually abusing his stepdaughters and raping two more women in the years that followed. On Tuesday, in Hennepin County District Court,…
People Are Finally Getting Bored by Trump
The incredible shrinking president. Forget the polls. What really matters is that Donald Trump’s ratings are down: The shock factor around President Trump’s unplanned announcements, staff departures, taunting tweets and erratic behavior is wearing off, and media companies are scrambling to find their next big moneymaker…. Digital demand for Trump-related content (number of article views…
Raw Data: The Great 1950s Blackout
My last post was half in jest, but something I mentioned in it got me curious: there hasn’t been a single president born in the 1950s. And there’s a good chance there never will be. Here’s the birth timeline of every Democratic candidate for president who’s currently polling at 1 percent or higher: It’s just…