Republicans Put Out a Very Misleading Ad Attacking Medicare-for-All
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new ad from the National Republican Campaign Committee, the main organization dedicated to electing Republicans to the House of Representatives, opens ominously. The ad, which appeared online Tuesday, targets Xochitl Torres Small, the Democratic candidate in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District. It features a mother…
Four White Supremacists Arrested for Their Role in Charlottesville Violence
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four white supremacists, “among the most violent individuals present” during the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” weekend, have been arrested on felony conspiracy charges, federal officials said Tuesday. JUST IN: Federal authorities announce arrest of four members of white supremacist group “for committing various acts of…
A California Republican Candidate Is So Desperate for Positive Press That She Quoted Herself in Her Latest Ad
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California congressional candidate Young Kim is “addressing the homeless youth crisis,” according to an ad released by Kim’s campaign this month. In the ad, Kim, a Republican running for a House seat in Southern California’s 39th District, is shown working in her office and chatting…
Government Report Details Trump Administration’s Incompetent Implementation of Family Separation Policy
Genesis, a five-year-old from Honduras, peers through fencing in June along a bridge connecting Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico.Miguel Roberts/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog has concluded that the agency was not fully prepared to implement the zero-tolerance policy that separated more than…
The Craziest Conspiracy Theories to Emerge From the Kavanaugh Hearings
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In one of the most contentious Supreme Court confirmation processes in recent history, mounting scrutiny of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s personal history has been met with a backlash: a growing body of conspiracy theories meant to discredit his accusers. We rounded up some…
Did Brett Kavanaugh Lie About Deborah Ramirez?
Saul Loeb/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is from the afternoon session of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings last week: ORRIN HATCH: When did you first hear of [Deborah] Ramirez’s allegations against you? KAVANAUGH: In the last — in the period since then, the New Yorker story. Ramirez is…