A Year Later, Charlottesville Remembers Heather Heyer
Heather Heyer’s mother Susan Bro speaks with reporters in front of a memorial.Steve Helber/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A year ago this weekend, Charlottesville was overrun with Confederate flags, swastikas, and torch-carrying white supremacists. While much of the anniversary has been overrun with news about Unite the Right’s planned…
The Trump Administration Finally Has a Plan to Reunite Separated Migrant Children with Deported Parents
Protesters gathered in Bowling Green on July 31 to demand that DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence reunite separated families. Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration finally has a plan to reunite the hundreds of migrant children whose parents were…
Puerto Rico Finally Admits It Wildly Underestimated Hurricane Maria Death Toll
Efrain Diaz Figueroa, right, walks by the remains of the house of his sister destroyed by Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto.Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This morning, the Puerto Rican government finally admitted that its official death toll for Hurricane Maria was a wild underestimate. A…
CNN Anchor Don Lemon Calls Trump Racist
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. CNN anchor Don Lemon called President Donald Trump “publicly racist” Monday night in a nine-minute diatribe on “CNN Tonight.” Lemon was responding to comments the president made Friday on Twitter, in which he called Lemon the “dumbest man on television.” Trump said Lemon made LeBron…
The Trump Administration’s Plan to Limit Legal Immigration Could Hurt Millions of Noncitizens
Protesters of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies gather at US Immigration & Customs Enforcement field office in San Francisco on July 2. Yichuan Cao/Sipa via AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Homeland Security is planning to dramatically expand its power to deny legal status to millions…
DC Metro Drops Potential Plan to Provide White Nationalists with Separate Train Cars to Attend Rally
Richard Gray/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will not provide white supremacists with access to their own train cars, the agency’s chair said on Saturday. Metro had been considering offering separate trains or individual train cars to demonstrators attending the Unite…