Undocumented Teen Finally Gets Abortion After Month-Long Fight With Trump Administration
Activists with Planned Parenthood demonstrate in support of a pregnant 17-year-old seeking an abortion who’s being held in a Texas facility for unaccompanied immigrant children.J. Scott Applewhite/AP The undocumented minor who’s been fighting for her constitutional right to an abortion finally underwent the procedure on Wednesday morning after the government tried to stop her for…
The Head of the Trump Campaign’s Data Firm Offered Assange Help with Clinton Emails
Bill Clark/ZUMA The head of Cambridge Analytica, a data firm used by Trump’s presidential campaign, reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last year to offer to help release a trove of some 30,000 of Hillary Clinton’s email messages from her time as Secretary of State. The Daily Beast reports Alexander Nix made the offer…
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Russia Probe Just Blew Up
Sen. Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein at a May 10, 2017 Judiciary Committee hearing.Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Senate judiciary committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) have broken up over Russia. The committee’s once bipartisan investigation into whether President Trump obstructed justice or his campaign colluded with Russia has hit…
Appeals Court Paves the Way for Migrant Teen to Get an Abortion
Scott Applewhite/AP A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to allow Jane Doe—an undocumented pregnant minor currently being housed in a federal refugee shelter in Texas—to obtain the abortion she has sought since the middle of September. The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), part of the Department of Health and Human Services…
Lunchtime Photo
Better late than never! A few weeks ago I told you that someday I’d post a photo of the Madonna at Coomakista Pass. Since I’m back in Ireland for a couple of days, why not today?
Read the Full Transcript of Jeff Flake’s Fiery Speech on the Senate Floor
Now is such a time. It must also be said that I rise today with no small measure of regret. Regret, because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics, regret because of the indecency of our discourse, regret because of the coarseness of our leadership, regret…