Right-Wing Troll Jacob Wohl Banned From Twitter
John Middlebrook/CSM/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Right-wing Twitter provocateur Jacob Wohl was suspended from the social-media platform on Tuesday after he boasted about plans to manipulate online political discussion in a high-profile newspaper interview. Twitter said he had violated several of the company’s rules, including creating and operating…
Here’s What Congress Should Ask Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen leaves federal court on December 12, 2018.Spencer Platt/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, Michael Cohen, the once influential lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, will testify in public before the House Oversight Committee and tell all. Or perhaps not all, but a lot. Now a…
Trump Just Lost Another Election In California
Jessica Patterson speaks to delegates at the California Republican Party convention in Sacramento, California.Steve Yeater/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, around 1,500 members of the California Republican Party gathered in Sacramento, California, for their 2019 convention’s main event: a debate between three candidates locked in a divisive battle…
Trump Bypassed Lawmakers to Build His Wall. Here’s How They Are Fighting Back.
Doug Mills/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By his own admission, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border to turbocharge the construction of a border wall that Congress refused to fund. “I could do the wall over a longer period of time,” he…
Oakland Teachers Are Still on Strike. What Are Parents Doing With Their Kids?
Magdaline Armstrong (right), a first-grade teacher, and her eight-year-old daughter, Nilaya, eight, picket outside Futures Elementary School.Rosa Furneaux/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, before thousands of Oakland teachers went on strike to call for more pay and smaller class sizes, teachers’ union president Keith Brown asked parents…
Hundreds of Young Protesters Confront McConnell Over Green New Deal
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of youth climate activists marched on Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s Washington office and 42 of them were arrested by police, according to organizers. The protesters—who…