Special Elections Suggest Democrats’ Momentum Might Be Slowing
Democrats are hoping to have something to celebrate in November, like Reps. Charlie Rangel and Carolyn Maloney of New York did at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.Tom Williams/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The state House seat for District 175, a southern district at the Florida border, stayed red in…
ICE Official Charged with Stealing Immigrants’ Identities
A protester stands outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland, Oregon. Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. An attorney with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allegedly stole the identities of immigrants and used them to defraud credit card companies, according to the…
Trump Veterans Affairs Chief Took His Wife on a Taxpayer-Funded Vacation
Veterans Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin with President Donald Trump in June 2017.Chris Kleponis/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yet another member of Donald Trump’s Cabinet is under fire for taking liberties with taxpayer-funded travel. This time it’s the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a troubled agency that…
Elizabeth Warren Tackles Trump’s “Pocahontas” Slur Head On
Alex Edelman/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) surprised members of the National Congress of American Indians on Wednesday with a stirring speech pledging to fight for the rights of Native Americans—a group President Donald Trump has a long record of disrespecting, both verbally and in policy. The…
Devin Nunes’ Fake News Site Suggests Male Privilege Doesn’t Exist
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) at the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in June 2013. Charles Dharapak/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It wasn’t around long, but in it’s short life, the Twitter feed for “The California Republican”—an alternative “news” site paid for by Devin Nunes Campaign…
Trump Wants to Put American Workers First, Except At His Own Properties
Mar-a-LagoRichard Graulich/Palm Beach Post via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thanks to Vox, we now know just how seriously President Trump’s businesses are taking his policy of “America First.” Three Trump businesses posted 144 openings for seasonal jobs from 2016 to 2017, but just one of those jobs went to an…