Republicans Waited a Year to Hold FEMA Hearings. Just In Time for Hurricane Season.
Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) speaks with Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) during a House Oversight Committee hearing.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Congressional Democrats’ months-long effort to wrangle the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency before the House Oversight Committee experienced another setback this week as a hearing…
Our Biggest Poverty Problem Is Not the Elderly
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. New poverty figures for 2017 are out today along with the new income figures, and there are no surprises: the poverty rate decreased 0.4 percentage points, just as you’d expect during an economic expansion. However, it’s worth showing the poverty rate by age, since it…
The Pope Summoned Bishops for an Unprecedented Global Meeting on the Sex Abuse Scandal
Franco Origlia/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Pope Francis announced Wednesday that he would convene a global meetings of bishops next year to discuss the clergy sexual abuse crisis that has engulfed the Catholic Church and strengthened the partisan divide between bishops loyal to Francis and his conservative critics. The…
Undaunted by Trump, Thousands of Climate Activists Are Meeting to Plan Their Next Move
California Gov. Jerry BrownHector Amezcua/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A month after President Donald Trump pledged to pull the United States from the landmark 2015 Paris climate change pact meant to curb global carbon emissions, California Gov. Jerry Brown seized the leadership role and announced that San Francisco would host the…
The First Dreamer to Run for Office in New York Has a Message for Donald Trump
CatalinaCruzNY/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s incredibly hot on this August morning in Jackson Heights, Queens, but here’s Catalina Cruz in her element. “Our community deserves to stay in our barrios, and we’re gonna make sure that happens,” she says, standing before roughly a dozen supporters, across the street…
Why North Carolina Won’t Evacuate Its Beloved Wild Horses During the Hurricane
“They have really good instincts,” Puckett said. “These horses have lived in this area for 500 years. We can already see now, they’re starting to group together. They know where the high ground is. They know where to go.” There are other groups of wild horses in the state as well, but Puckett said it’s…