Verizon Leaves Lobbying Group ALEC Over Ties to Anti-Muslim Activist
Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Telecom giant Verizon has decided to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council, a powerful corporate lobbying group, over its connections to David Horowitz, an anti-Muslim activist, according to a report from the Intercept. The group had hosted Horowitz as a featured speaker at…
Donald Trump Can’t Stop Attacking Puerto Rico’s Death Toll
Lenin Nolly/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Late on Friday night, President Donald Trump continued his baseless public assault on the officially adopted survey saying nearly 3,000 Puerto Rican residents died after Hurricane Maria. “When Trump visited the island territory last October, OFFICIALS told him in a briefing 16 PEOPLE…
North Carolina Towns Still Recovering From Hurricane Matthew Now Have to Deal With Florence
“You’ve got to live somewhere,” she said. Matthew Peterson, on the other hand, wasn’t taking any chances this time around. He and his family barely managed to escape Lumberton in 2016 after they awoke to find flood water creeping up toward their doors. He fled town with more than a dozen people piled in his…
Tons of Promises Were Made at Jerry Brown’s Climate Summit, But Only One Requires Rockets
California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks as Michael Bloomberg, left, listens during a news conference at the Global Action Climate Summit Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018.Eric Risberg/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California’s Governor Jerry Brown, once nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam,” announced on Friday that the state was launching its own satellite, a…
Mississippi Senate Candidate to African Americans: Stop “Begging for Federal Government Scraps”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a live TV appearance on Friday, Mississippi Republican Senate candidate Chris McDaniel said the state’s African Americans should stop “begging for federal government scraps.” McDaniel made the remarks during a live recording of MSNBC’s Morning Joe at Ole Miss. Interview panelist Eddie Glaude Jr., a Mississippi native and chairman of African…
Concession by the Trump Administration Caps Off a Big Legal Victory for Separated Families
Natalia Oliveira da Silva and her daughter, Sara, 5, hug at a Catholic Charities facility in Texas in July after being separated by the Trump administration. Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In February, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration to reunite a family separated at…