A Quick Follow-Up on the Republican Tax Cut
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The Pentagon’s New Climate Change Report Is Missing Some Important Details
Waves slam the Oceana Pier & Pier House Restaurant in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, as Hurricane Florence approaches the area. Travis Long/The News & Observer/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Less than two months after President Donald Trump said he did not believe a federal report outlining the existential threat of…
Trump Admin Leaked Pelosi’s Commercial Travel Plans, House Speaker Aide Says
ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. An aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday accused the Trump administration of leaking Pelosi’s revised plans to fly a commercial aircraft to Afghanistan, forcing the top Democrat to officially cancel her visit to the war zone. It was the latest development after the president, in an extraordinary…
Trump: “Not One Dollar” For Puerto Rico
Yuisa Rios/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back when Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, there was a lot of talk about how President Trump was taking it a lot less seriously than two other hurricanes, Harvey and Irma, which hit areas that were, um, a…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hunting Down Mitch McConnell Is the Meme I Need Today
Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the longest government shutdown in US history drags on into its fourth week, many have started to wonder on social media #wheresmitch, a largely rhetorical question intended to highlight the curious silence of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his continued refusal…
A Federal Court Just Blocked Wisconsin Republicans’ Attacks on Early Voting
Opponents of an extraordinary session bill submitted by Wisconsin Republicans gather for a rally outside the state capitol in Madison, Wisconsin on December 3, 2018. John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During a lame-duck session in December, Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled state Legislature sparked protests and outrage when it passed…