How Are My Trump Predictions Doing?
Sergi Reboredo/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I have a bad memory, but many of my readers have great memories and periodically remind me of things I’ve said in the past. A couple of days ago, JH emailed to remind me that a year ago I offered up three tests…
The Most Devastating Pictures From the Last 72 Hours of Fire in California
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, July 29, 5:28 p.m. ET: A local official has confirmed that a sixth person was found dead in the Carr Fire, according to the Associated Press. At least five people have been killed in northern California’s still-growing Carr Fire, including two children and their…
Brock Turner Only Wanted “Outercourse,” Lawyer Argues In Sexual Assault Appeal
Screenshot via Oxforddictionaries.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A lawyer for Brock Turner argued this week that his client shouldn’t have been convicted of intending to commit rape. His reasoning is that Turner only wanted “outercourse” with the woman he sexually assaulted. Turner, of course, is the former Stanford University student who…
A Father and Son Were Finally Reunited. Later that Day, the Government Ripped Them Apart Again.
Matt York/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After more than 50 days apart, a migrant father known in legal documents as “F.G.,” was reunited with his 17-year-old son in Texas on Wednesday. Guards loaded them onto a bus, where they were told they would be taken to a shelter. But eight…
President Trump Just Threatened a Government Shutdown—Again. And Blamed Democrats—Again.
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to force a government shutdown if Democrats don’t cave to his demands for stricter immigration policies, including building his long-promised border wall. “I would be willing to ‘shut down’ government if the Democrats do not give us the votes…
Trump Invokes 9/11 to Justify ICE While Judge Mulls Family Reunification
Activists protest ICE and the Trump administration’s immigration and detention policies in Los Angeles on July 21.Ronen Tivon/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge in San Diego is set to rule this weekend on a request by the American Civil Liberties Union for a restraining…