Chart of the Day: The Latest on Brett Kavanaugh
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new ABC poll conducted by Langer Research Associates confirms the huge gender gap in Republicans’ handling of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation: Only 35 percent of women approve of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, 13 points behind men. And 58 percent want Congress to continue investigating him, 11…
Senate Confirmation Appears Likely for Two More Judges Hostile Toward Abortion
Chad A. Readler, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, is sworn in to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on judicial nominations on October 10, 2018.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two appeals court nominees with strong anti-choice histories are likely to become the…
Dodd-Frank Continues Scorched Earth Campaign Against Wall Street
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Those brutal Dodd-Frank bank regulations just keep tearing into Wall Street profits: JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Friday that third-quarter profit jumped 24% as the bank’s consumer business helped it overcome weaker trading. Shares rose about 1% in morning trading after the results were announced.…
GOP Candidate Sues Pennsylvania Newspaper Over Sexual Misconduct Allegation
Matt Rourke/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The fight to fill an open congressional seat in eastern Pennsylvania took another nasty turn this week when Republican candidate Marty Nothstein sued the Allentown Morning Call over the newspaper’s reporting on an allegation that Nothstein engaged in sexual misconduct nearly two decades ago.…
Trump Split Up Many More Migrant Families Than Previously Thought, New Report Finds
Asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border.Gregory Bull/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new report by Amnesty International finds that the Trump administration has separated far more immigrant families than it has publicly admitted. Amnesty reports that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) forcibly separated more than 6,000 family units between mid-April and…
Facebook Launches Its Biggest Purge of Spam Accounts Ever
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook shut down 559 pages and 251 accounts on Thursday that violated the company’s rules by spamming users with partisan news, the social network’s largest purge to date. The accounts, all based in the United States, circulated both far-left and far-right content. Each had…