The Cleveland Indians Decided the Chief Wahoo Logo Is Too Racist to Wear But Fine to Keep Selling
Patrick Semansky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After 70 years of using a racist Native American caricature as its primary logo, baseball’s Cleveland Indians finally have agreed to stop using the Chief Wahoo logo on uniforms and banners throughout Progressive Field, starting in 2019. Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred noted in…
There Are More Than 5 Million Syrian Refugees. The Trump Administration Has Admitted 2 of Them.
Women from Syria walk with their children in a refugee camp in Cyprus in September.Petros Karadjias/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The United Nations estimates that there are 5.5 million Syrian refugees. In the past three months, the United States has allowed two of them to enter the country—down from…
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Stepping Down Under Pressure
June 21, 2016 – Washington, DC, USA – The FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Credit Image: © Tong Wu/TNS via ZUMA Wire)Tong Wu/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. NBC News is reporting that Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe has moved up plans to retire and will leave his…
Kesha Delivered the Devastating #MeToo Moment the Grammys Needed
Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Janelle Monáe stepped out on this year’s Grammy’s stage and didn’t lose a beat. Voicing a message of solidarity with fellow women in the industry, Monáe put the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements in the spotlight at one of mainstream music’s biggest nights. “Time’s up…
Time to Put the Brakes on Jobs?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Should the Fed continue raising interest rates? After several rate increases and with unemployment at a 17-year low, Fed officials face the question of whether joblessness might fall so much that they should pick up the pace of tightening to prevent the economy from overheating.…
Does Trump’s Immigration Plan Actually Cut Legal Immigration?
April Soasti, 9, front, and her sister Adriana, 7, stand with other community members after the Trump administration announced it was ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA.)Stephanie Zollshan/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As President Trump promised, his immigration plan consists of four pillars. The first is DACA and…