California Sues Trump Administration Over Census Citizenship Question
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Secretary of State Alex Padilla at a news conference Tuesday in Sacramento.Rich Pedroncelli/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The state of California has filed suit against the Trump administration for its controversial decision to add a question about US citizenship to the 2020 census form,…
California AG Launches Investigation Into Stephon Clark Shooting
A woman protests the police shooting death of Stephon Clark in Sacramento on March 22.Rich Pedroncelli/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The California state Department of Justice will open an independent investigation into the fatal police shooting of 23-year-old Stephon Clark, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Sacramento’s police chief jointly…
Devin Nunes Is Raising Money Off His Shoddy Trump-Russia Investigation
Bill Clark/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee who has been widely criticized for undermining his panel’s haphazard Trump-Russia probe, sent out a pitch to conservative and Republican donors: we found there was no “collusion,” so send me…
It’s Time For a NASCAR Robot Team
Chris Owens Asp Inc/ASP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a random bit of news from the “Huh” files. Lewis Hamilton almost won the Australian Grand Prix this weekend, but he ended up losing to Sebastian Vettel by a few seconds. The reason was pit stops. As you…
Democrats’ Strategy in the Latest Gerrymandering Case: Win by Losing
Maryland Democrats gerrymandered the state’s political map in 2011 to give their party an extra congressional seat.National Atlas of the United States/Wikimedia Commons Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats have recently brought legal challenges to gerrymanders that have locked them out of power in states from Pennsylvania to North Carolina,…
Here’s An Action List for Gun Reform
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The folks at March For Our Lives have released their five-point list of fanatical, half-baked, 2nd-Amendment-busting demands: Fund more gun violence research. We actually made a step in this direction when President Trump signed the 2018 budget, which clarifies that the 1996 Dickey Amendment doesn’t…