Trump Election Commission Has Ground to a Halt, Says Republican Member
Sign outside the room for the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in Washington, DC, July 2017.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP The work of President Donald Trump’s controversial election integrity commission has ground to a halt in recent weeks as the commission faces a barrage of lawsuits, according to one of its Republican…
Rejecting Critics, Trump Brags of Ivy League Credentials and “Great Memories of All Time”
President Donald Trump continued to defend himself from the ongoing controversy over his phone call to the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, telling reporters in an impromptu press conference on Wednesday that he was “really nice to her.” He explained that not only was he equipped with a chart listing Johnson’s name, but relied on his…
Sinclair Could Be a Big Winner From the FCC’s Latest Deregulation Move
bx98ct/iStock / Getty Images Plus For almost 80 years, the Federal Communications Commission required that TV and radio stations have a studio in or near the community they served. It was only logical that a TV station covering a particular city or region have a physical presence there—to better cover the news, to give a…
How Republicans Are Jumping on the New Steele Scoop to Distract From the Trump-Russia Scandal
Victoria Jones/Press Association/AP The cognitive dissonance of the Republicans is pegging the needle this week. The news that a law firm working for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee bankrolled the Trump opposition research project that produced the infamous Trump-Russia memos has touched off much howling in GOP and conservative quarters. The revelation…
Hackers Are Stealing Sensitive Student Data—And Schools are Paying Thousands of Dollars to Get it Back
FOTOKITA/iStock/GettyImages Earlier this month, students and parents in Johnston, Iowa, received a barrage of threatening text messages. “I’m going to kill some kids at your son’s high school,” one said, according to KCCI, a local Des Moines news outlet. The threats eventually caused the school district to shut schools for a day. And just last month, students and parents around…
As Zinke Spends Tax Dollars on Private Jets, National Parks Are Jacking Up Entrance Fees
The National Park Service has a funding problem. It currently faces a $12 billion maintenance backlog that will only be exacerbated in the coming years by a combination of record attendance and the likelihood of federal budget cuts. So on Wednesday, NPS unveiled its latest effort to fill that hole—higher entrance fees at 17 of…