Trump Announces Rally for Lyin’ Ted
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump confirmed what Texas Republicans had been hinting for weeks—he’d be coming to the Lone Star State this fall to campaign for Sen. Ted Cruz: I will be doing a major rally for Senator…
Political Operative Tied to Paul Manafort Charged With Illegal Foreign Lobbying
Federal prosecutors on Friday morning charged Sam Patten, a former associate of ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, with illegally lobbying for a Ukrainian political party. Patten was charged by the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, and the Justice Department’s National Security Division, not by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But the case appears to represent the…
Trump Job Approval Heading Down to Crazification Factor Once Again
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Here’s a Middle Class Index™ for Chuck Schumer
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Martin Heinrich think that GDP is a pretty imperfect measure of economic growth. So they want some new statistics: The idea, they say, is to shed light on where economic prosperity is showing up across different income groups — and, potentially,…
Obamacare Still Working, Uninsured Rate Drops Again
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. According to the latest CDC survey, the uninsured rate declined during the first quarter of 2018: This may seem puzzling since enrollment rates for Obamacare went down during signups for this year. But if fewer people signed up for Obamacare, how did the uninsured rate…
Scientists Discover Giant Deep-Sea Coral Reef Off Atlantic Coast
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the research vessel Atlantis made its way out to sea from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, last week, expedition chief scientist Erik Cordes predicted the team would discover something no one has ever seen before. It didn’t take long. Some 160 miles off the…