The First Dreamer to Run for Office in New York Has a Message for Donald Trump
CatalinaCruzNY/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s incredibly hot on this August morning in Jackson Heights, Queens, but here’s Catalina Cruz in her element. “Our community deserves to stay in our barrios, and we’re gonna make sure that happens,” she says, standing before roughly a dozen supporters, across the street…
Why North Carolina Won’t Evacuate Its Beloved Wild Horses During the Hurricane
“They have really good instincts,” Puckett said. “These horses have lived in this area for 500 years. We can already see now, they’re starting to group together. They know where the high ground is. They know where to go.” There are other groups of wild horses in the state as well, but Puckett said it’s…
FEMA is About to Get Slammed by Florence
Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A year after the most destructive hurricane season in American history stretched the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s resources to capacity, the government agency charged with administrating disaster relief has to prepare for the strongest storm to hit the East Coast in over a decade. …
Democrats Are Giving Up on Compromise
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For quite a long time there’s been a large and durable partisan gap on the issue of compromise. Generally speaking, Republicans don’t like it: they want politicians to stick to their conservative principles, come hell or high water. If that means shutting down the government…
Thousands of Prisoners Are Being Forced to Stay During Hurricane Florence
A Texas State prison unit remained submerged in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey last year.Charlie Riedel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than one million residents have been ordered to evacuate regions of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia in the face of Hurricane Florence, the Category 4 storm expected to…
Trump Claims Hurricane Maria Response Was “One of Best Jobs That’s Ever Been Done”
President Donald Trump talks about Hurricane Florence following a briefing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As evacuations were ordered for more than 1 million people in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia ahead of Hurricane Florence, President Donald Trump told…