The Oil Industry Has Launched a Preemptive Strike Over Washington State’s Carbon Tax Ballot Initiative
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A bunch of heavy boxes arrived in the Washington state capital on Monday morning. They were filled with thousands of petitions in support of the proposed “Protect…
Could Liberals Raise a Billion Dollars a Year to Fund Abortions?
John Middlebrook/CSM via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bear with me for a few moments while I outline a probably dumb idea. But the possibility that Roe v. Wade might soon be on the chopping block has nudged it back into my mind again. My question is: how many…
Obama’s Homeland Security Chief Just Waded Into the “Abolish ICE” Fight
Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last few weeks, fueled by Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary upset in New York and and a frenzy of damning stories about the Trump administration’s immigration policies, calls to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency…
They Tried to Visit Their Son-in-Law at Fort Drum Before His Army Unit Shipped Out. Now They’re in ICE Detention.
Channel 4, NBC New York Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Via NBC New York, here’s another story that illustrates why frustrations with the federal government’s immigration enforcement have boiled over in recent weeks. Concepcion and Margarita Silva, both Mexican-born Brooklyn residents, drove up to the Army base at Fort Drum,…
Exactly What Did North Korea Call US Demands for Denuclearization?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What kind of demands did Secretary of State Mike Pompeo make in North Korea? That depends on which translation you prefer of North Korea’s statement. Everyone agrees that they called the demands “regrettable,” but the North Koreans also included a more pungent description of the…
Border Crossings Are Either Up or Down, Depending on How You Look At Things
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The latest figures for border apprehensions are out, and the news is either good or bad depending on how you look at it. If you look at the change from last year, apprehensions are way up: With spring now in the books, apprehensions are up…