FEMA is About to Get Slammed by Florence
Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A year after the most destructive hurricane season in American history stretched the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s resources to capacity, the government agency charged with administrating disaster relief has to prepare for the strongest storm to hit the East Coast in over a decade. …
Democrats Are Giving Up on Compromise
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For quite a long time there’s been a large and durable partisan gap on the issue of compromise. Generally speaking, Republicans don’t like it: they want politicians to stick to their conservative principles, come hell or high water. If that means shutting down the government…
Thousands of Prisoners Are Being Forced to Stay During Hurricane Florence
A Texas State prison unit remained submerged in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey last year.Charlie Riedel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than one million residents have been ordered to evacuate regions of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia in the face of Hurricane Florence, the Category 4 storm expected to…
Trump Claims Hurricane Maria Response Was “One of Best Jobs That’s Ever Been Done”
President Donald Trump talks about Hurricane Florence following a briefing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As evacuations were ordered for more than 1 million people in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia ahead of Hurricane Florence, President Donald Trump told…
Trump’s Latest Attack on the FBI Is Probably Bogus
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) released some big news that, he suggested, undercut the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia. Meadows announced that Peter Strzok—the FBI agent recently fired over his anti-Trump text messages—had mentioned a “media leak strategy”…
Dear NRA: Putting KKK Hoods on Beloved Childhood Characters Probably Isn’t the Best Strategy
NRATV Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The producers of Thomas the Tank Engine’s decades-old hit television show recently made Thomas & Friends more modern. They changed the theme song and brought in new female characters, including Nia, a train from Kenya created in cahoots with the UN. “Through Nia, we’re able…