White House Still Hasn’t Settled on a Single Lie About Rob Porter
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. So has the White House finally settled on a single story about Rob Porter’s history of domestic violence? You know, basic stuff like how much they knew and when they knew it? I guess not: The F.B.I. director, Christopher A.…
A Federal Appeals Court Just Dealt a Blow to School Segregation
Beautiful African American elementary schoolgirl rides to school on a school bus. She is smiling at the camera.asiseeit/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal appeals court panel blocked an attempt by officials in Gardendale, Alabama, to form its own school district, reaffirming Tuesday a previous ruling that the city’s…
Liberals Really Do Go Overboard on Racism Sometimes
Is this the real heritage of Anglo-American law enforcement? Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While I was wending my way up to Yosemite on Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a speech to the winter conference of the National Sheriff’s Association. As usual with these kinds of things, he said…
Intelligence Chiefs: Trump Has Not Directed Us to Stop Russian Meddling
Intelligence officials including FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.Olivier Douliery/AP/Abaca Press (Sipa via AP Images) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The government’s top intelligence officials say Russia will likely reprise its election meddling…
A Second Federal Judge Just Blocked Trump From Ending DACA
Maria Angelica Ramirez carries a large key reading “My Dream” at a protest last month outside the Doral, Florida, office of Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.Lynne Sladky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A second federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending protections for Dreamers—undocumented immigrants who came to…
America Is so Polarized That This Republican Senate Candidate’s Parents Donated to His Democratic Rival
Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson speaks with reporters in Madison, Wis.Scott Bauer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kevin Nicholson, a Republican challenging Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), has raised over $1.2 million for his 2018 campaign to unseat the nation’s first openly gay senator. But his Democratic rival has raised…