Experts Warn Congress That Facebook and Twitter Can No Longer Set Their Own Rules on Foreign Disinformation
Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC), (R), speaks while flanked by ranking member Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), (C), and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA), during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill, on August 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony about foreign influence on social media platforms. Mark Wilson / Getty Images News Looking…
Trump Plans to Announce $500 Tax on All American Households Today
Ringo Chiu via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal reports: The White House, looking to ratchet up trade pressure on China, is expected to announced today that it is more than doubling the size of the proposed tariffs to 25% from 10% on $200 billion of…
A Judge Just Told the Government to Stop Medicating Immigrant Kids Without Consent
Unaccompanied minors sleep in a holding cell at a US Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville, Texas in 2014. Eric Gay/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to stop medicating detained immigrant children without consent and to release some…
Supreme Court Says Kids Can Sue Trump Over Climate Change
Youth plaintiffs, attorneys, and staff from Our Children’s Trust at the federal courthouse in Eugene after a hearing in the Juliana v. United States climate change lawsuit in June.Robin Loznak via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s effort to stop a…
Why Did We All Start Eating More Vegetable Oil When George Bush Was Elected President?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Vox reports today that our consumption of fats and oils has been increasing: Can anyone explain this? I can’t find the original report, but this chart suggests that our consumption of vegetable fat increased from 55 pounds per person to 75 pounds per person between…
The Administration Had No Plan to Prevent Widespread Family Separations
Administration officials testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about reunifying families separated at the border.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After missing a court-imposed deadline last week to reunite families separated at the border, administration officials have an explanation for why they had so much…