The Trump Administration Had Until Thursday to Reunite Separated Families. But Hundreds Will Remain Apart.
Jennifer Maradiaga, left, holds her daughter, Mia, 1, after they and other family members were reunited, Monday, July 23, in San Antonio. The children had been taken to a shelter in Arizona shortly after they had tried to cross the Rio Grande about two months earlier.AP/Eric Gay Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our…
A Judge Just Ruled the Trump Administration Has Failed in Protecting the World’s Rarest Marine Mammal
The vaquita porpoiseOmar Vidal/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a win for environmentalists Thursday, the United States Court of International Trade ruled that the federal government failed its “statutory duty” to protect the critically-endangered vaquita porpoise. With as few as 15 individuals remaining in the wild, the vaquita is the world’s…
Here’s a Grammar Lesson for Internet Reporters
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week some old tweets from around 2009 “resurfaced” in which director James Gunn made some tasteless jokes about pedophilia. He was subsequently fired as director of Guardians of the Galaxy 3. A few days ago, a pilot from 2009 “resurfaced” in which director Dan…
Is the Emoluments Clause the Key to Finally Seeing Trump’s Tax Returns?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Conservative law professor David Post takes a look at Wednesday’s district court opinion in the “emoluments” case against Donald Trump and finds it oddly persuasive: The dispute centers almost entirely, at least at this stage, on the meaning of the term “emolument.” The plaintiffs assert,…
Even Donald Trump Admits His Daughter Doesn’t Work
Al Drago/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than a year after Ivanka Trump officially joined her father in the White House, it remains unclear what the senior adviser and daughter to the president does all day. While critics have long derided the first daughter for her apparent lack of purpose…
Republicans Voted to Block Jeff Sessions’ Attacks on Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Domestic Violence
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A bipartisan group of representatives in Congress voted on Wednesday to block part of the Trump administration’s latest attack on migrants entering the country as asylum-seekers. Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions used his control over America’s immigration court system to rule that people fleeing domestic and gang violence…