Congress Just Got a Whole Lot of F’s on Their Environmental Report Card
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Congressional Republicans and Democrats have never been further apart on environmental issues. The top leadership in the GOP is comprised entirely of climate change deniers, while Democrats have aligned in opposition to President Trump’s agenda. But a report released today by the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) calibrates the distance between…
Trump’s Company Won’t Say How Much It Made From Foreign Governments—But Swears It Gave It All Away
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Pres Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump Organization released a statement on Monday announcing it had donated all profits earned from foreign government spending at Trump-owned hotels to the U.S. Treasury. But the company declined to say how much profit was donated, where it was earned,…
Chart of the Day: African-American Unemployment, 1993-2018
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Scott Pruitt Is Gutting the EPA Because He Thinks It’s God’s Plan
Tom Williams/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Pruitt may be at the center of another Trump administration flight scandal over the skyrocketing costs of his first-class flights, but recently he’s been more likely to talk about how deeply his evangelical faith influences his work running the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt comes from…
Never Assume An Election Is in the Bag
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two years ago, a Black Lives Matter activist challenged Hillary Clinton about her use of the word superpredator in a 1996 speech. The next day Clinton said she regretted that: “I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today.” Did this kind…
Federal Appeals Court Finds Anti-Gay Workplace Discrimination Is Illegal
People demonstrate outside the United States Supreme Court on the morning of oral arguments in a major LGBT discrimination case in December 2017. Brian Cahn via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits anti-gay discrimination in…