Raw Data: The Price of Housing in America
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Trump Is Considering Another Presidential Pardon
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump on Saturday announced on Twitter that he is considering granting a posthumous pardon to the late boxing legend Jack Johnson after speaking with actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone. Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack…
Donald Trump Is Mad at Maggie Haberman
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump is unhappy with today’s New York Times piece about how he treats Michael Cohen “like garbage,” which might cause Cohen to flip: The New York Times and a third rate reporter named Maggie Haberman, known as a Crooked H flunkie who I don’t…
California Bullet Train Suffers From a “Number of Miscalculations”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The LA Times reports today about a minor little cost overrun on the California bullet train. Over the course of five years, the cost of utility relocations along a short section of track near Fresno increased nearly 6x, from $69 million to $396 million: The…
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Has Separated Hundreds of Kids From Their Parents at the Border
In this July 7, 2015, file photo, immigrants from El Salvador are seen after their release from a family detention center in San Antonio, Texas. Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Though the Trump administration has claimed its immigration agents do not often separate families at the border, new data reveals that…
Trump Began His Morning By Attacking a Times Reporter on Twitter
Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While several former presidents were en route to attend the funeral service of former first lady Barbara Bush on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump was tweeting insults at reporters and heading to the golf course. Trump took to Twitter to bash the…