Sessions Is Poised to Make It Vastly Harder for Asylum-Seekers to Get Out of Detention
Charlie Riedel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new decision from Attorney General Jeff Sessions is likely to make it dramatically harder for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers to get out of detention. On Tuesday, in a now-familiar tactic, Sessions used his broad authority over America’s immigration courts to refer…
Trump Visited Rain-Drenched North Carolina and It Went About as Well as You’d Expect
Trump stands in front of a home that suffered damage from Hurricane Florence; in the background is a yacht that washed ashore.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After Hurricane Florence dumped 34 inches of rain on the Carolinas, swelling rivers and flooding neighborhoods and towns, Donald Trump toured the particularly…
It’s 2018 and Candidates Are Still Running Attack Ads Against Iraq War Protesters
McSally for Senate/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Martha McSally, both current members of Congress, are locked in a tight contest in the race to succeed retiring Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake. McSally, who touts the endorsement of President Donald Trump despite refusing to say…
Chart of the Day: A Taxpayer’s Guide to Skyrocketing Federal Spending
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Campaign Ad Starring Bigfoot Seeks to Track Down Elusive GOP Congressman
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. How does one go about locating one of the most endangered Republicans in November’s midterm elections? If you ask Dean Phillips, the Democrat challenging five-term incumbent Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.), the natural answer is to turn to Bigfoot. The famously elusive creature is the star…
Blue Wave in Texas? Not So Fast.
James Durbin/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, followers of America’s most-polled Senate race got a new toy to play with: A Quinnipiac survey gave Republican Sen. Ted Cruz a nine-point lead, the biggest margin anyone’s found for months. Then, on Wednesday morning, a new poll. This one, from…