Federal Judge Strikes a Blow Against the Trump Administration’s Separation of Families at the Border
A child and her mother at a May rally to protest the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policies.Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policies of forcibly separating parents from their children at the border will be allowed to proceed, a federal judge ruled today.…
Illegal Immigration Is Up Yet Again
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today brings some bad news for Kirstjen Nielsen, the Secretary of Homeland Security. Border apprehensions were up yet again in May: It turns out that bluster and threats will apparently scare people away for a few months, but after that you need actual policies to…
Quote of the Day: “You’re a Piece of Trash”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From EPA spokesperson Jahan Wilcox, asked for comment about the resignation of two aides to Scott Pruitt: You have a great day, you’re a piece of trash. So professional. The backstory here is that a few weeks ago an Atlantic reporter revealed that Pruitt had…
Trump Makes Lame Canada Joke, Pisses Off Canadian Prime Minister
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here is a sentence I never expected to read: In a poll by Ipsos Reid in 2012, the War of 1812 was second only to their universal health care in a list of events or items that could be used to define Canadian identity. Not…
DOJ Inspector General About to Issue Category 5 Hypocrisy Warning
Starmax/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. ABC News reports today that the Justice Department’s inspector general plans to slam James Comey for publicly reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email just a few days before the 2016 election: One source told ABC News that the draft report explicitly…
The Middle Schoolers Who Flipped a Crashed Car, and Other Stories of Kids Putting Adults to Shame
The Boise football players with the couple they rescued.Screenshot via the Idaho Daily Statesman The 13- and 14-year-olds of an Idaho football team were jubilant on their way home through Oregon after winning a tournament in California. Then they saw the overturned car and a couple stuck inside—and they got to work. Alan Hardman said…