Trump’s Immigration Bill Was Just Defeated. It Wasn’t Even Close.
Lennin Nolly/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The hardline immigration bill endorsed by President Donald Trump failed badly in the Senate on Thursday afternoon. It received just 39 votes well short of the 60 needed to take up the measure. Of the four immigration proposals the Senate considered on Thursday,…
Senate Rejects Bipartisan Plan to Protect Dreamers Amid Aggressive Opposition From Trump
Ting Shen/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The bipartisan immigration plan that represented the Senate’s best chance to pass legislation to protect Dreamers—undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children—was defeated on Thursday afternoon. The final tally was 54 in favor, 45 against, with eight Republicans joining most Democrats…
Florida Sheriff: No Known White Supremacist Connection in School Shooting
Students released from a lockdown embrace following following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.John McCall/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update 5:16 pm ET: The Leon County Sheriff’s Office told the Tallahassee Democrat on Thursday that they knew of no information linking Cruz…
Congress May Hold Steve Bannon in Contempt
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House intelligence committee is considering a vote to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress, after the former chief White House strategist refused to answer key questions when he appeared before the panel on Thursday in connection with its ongoing Russia…
Jeff Sessions Just Tried to Blame Florida School Shooting on Gang Violence
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In response to Wednesday’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Attorney General Jeff Sessions implied, in a speech to a sheriff’s convention in Washington on Thursday, that cracking down on gang violence could prevent school shootings. “When parents once again go to sleep fearful that their…
Trump’s Anti-Refugee Campaign Just Hit a New Low
An intake counselor and a resettlement case manager help a refugee family with applications for subsidized childcare in Tampa, Florida. Loren Elliott/Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than 20 refugee resettlement offices are preparing to close across the United States, following a Trump administration…