Supreme Court Upholds Gerrymandered Texas Maps, Dealing a Blow to Voting Rights
Gerrymandering activists gather outside the Supreme Court in March. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court dealt a big blow Monday to efforts to combat racial gerrymandering, approving Texas’ GOP-drawn political maps that had previously been found to discriminate intentionally against minority voters. In…
The White House Is Mad at a Red Hen
The very nicely painted and canopied Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last Friday, the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, quietly asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her party to leave because her staff was uncomfortable serving a member of the Trump…
Nobody Wants to Be Near the Homeless, Part 376
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After I posted some pictures of the homeless in Los Angeles yesterday, a reader pointed me closer to home: the latest Grand Jury report about homelessness here in Orange County. It was published a few weeks ago, and like previous reports it points out that:…
Turkey’s Autocratic President, Praised by Trump, Claims Election Victory
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Donald Trump shake hands in September 2017 in New York.Shealah Craighead/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Turkey’s autocratic president is claiming victory in the country’s contentious election on Sunday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is up by more than 20 points, according to a state-run…
Trump Wants to Take Away Due Process Rights for People Arriving at the Border
Brian Cahn/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump thinks immigrants arriving at the southern border have had it too easy. Now he wants to take away their due process rights. On Sunday morning, the president took to Twitter to say that the United States should skip court hearings…
Now We Know Exactly How Many Children the Government Took From Their Parents
A demonstration on Saturday in New Mexico against the Trump administration’s policy of separating parents from their children.Roberto E. Rosales/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Homeland Security has released a report detailing how many children have been separated from their parents at the border and how many have been…