Healthy rivers can no longer be separated into the “nice-to-have” column of environmental progress. The Biden-Harris transition team identified COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change as its top priorities. Rivers are the through-line ...
The fact that the president and his supporters want us to tolerate hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths from the pandemic reveals their true nature. When President Donald Trump was challenged by Axios national political correspondent Jonathan ...
“In South America, Trump wanted to send the US military to Venezuela to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, Bolton writes. He ‘insisted on military options for Venezuela’ and even told his cabinet that it ‘is really ...
The policies of the United States are deeply implicated in Yemen’s suffering, including the sale of billions of dollars in munitions to Saudi Arabia and other countries that have intervened in the civil war. (Common ...
“I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis wrote for The Atlantic. Thus began the retired Marine general’s sharply critical take on President Donald Trump’s response to ...
Cuts to SNAP Delayed, For Now On March 13 a Federal Judge issued a decision to stop a planned rule change to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The new rule would have prevented an ...
US Sanctions, according to Human Rights Watch, have not only been devastating to Iranian civilians, but they have also crippled the country’s ability to effectively deal with the coronavirus. (By: Ariel Gold & Medea Benjamin, ...
“The EPA’s proposed rule will make it more likely that people who live and work on or near farms will be sprayed with dangerous pesticides.” Environmental experts are sounding the alarm against the Trump administration’s ...
“This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever sludge or slime they wished into the streams and wetlands that often connect to the ...
“I want to build the wall, I supported direct appropriations for it and fought for it — but we have to evaluate what this does to the military, what it affects, where and how.” President ...
“Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal and fast. Under construction are many hypersonic missiles. The fact that we have this great military and equipment, however, does not mean we have to use it.” Trump ...
“Since President Trump took office, the American people have witnessed an unprecedented arrangement that has funneled taxpayer dollars into the President’s pockets.” President Trump visited one of his golf clubs for the 258th time since his ...
“We have said since the day this indictment was made public that it was politically motivated and violated New York’s statutory double jeopardy law.” Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager of President Donald Trump’s 2016 ...
Comparing results from different polls using different wording can be confusing and misleading, so it is best to compare polls conducted by the same organization at different points in time. (By Michael Traugott, The Conversation) ...
The movement to impeach President Donald Trump now heads to a full House vote, where he could become only the third U.S. President in history to be impeached by the House. The House Judiciary Committee ...
“I don’t think the appetite is real high for turning this into a prolonged spectacle.” Senate Majority Leader and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is planning on having a quick acquittal of President Donald Trump if ...
Lobbying firms in Washington D.C. saw revenue more than double in the Trump era. (By Yue Stella Yu, The Center for Responsive Politics) For many well-connected Washington lobbying firms, business is booming after President Donald ...
The two main measures of the U.S. economy are showing the same trends under Trump that were shown under Obama ever since 2010. The economic performance of the U.S. under Trump is basically the same ...
“Chairman Schiff’s carefully controlled and blatantly unfair process served only to further confirm that the President has done nothing wrong and that there is no basis for continuing your inquiry.” White House Counsel Pat Cipollone ...
“I know there’s no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason.” Lisa Page, the married, former FBI agent whose affair and anti-President Donald Trump text messages with fellow former ...
The rollback of the Chemical Disaster Rule is the latest of the EPA’s slashed environmental regulations, joining asbestos, coal ash, chlorpyrifos, glyphosate, methane, and carbon emission deregulations. The Environmental Protection Agency weakened an Obama-era regulation ...
“The grand American tradition of immunizing its war criminals – while preaching morality to the world – continues with these vile pardons by Trump.” President Trump issued pardons in three cases involving war crimes accusations ...
“This proposal has nothing to do with science. They want politicians, not scientists, to evaluate the evidence of harm to the public.” The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to restrict the science it ...
Nikki Haley’s new book is just one in a series of forthcoming insider accounts from former Trump administration officials. Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley claims that two former senior Trump advisers, then-Secretary ...
“It’s point blank, a violation of the premier anti-corruption provision of the United States Constitution, the emolument clause, because it will involve payments and benefits, and promotion, to the president’s property.” White House Acting Chief ...
The impeachment inquiry into President Trump has spearheaded a call for unity within the Republican Party, raising the stakes for the upcoming presidential election. After seemingly surviving the Mueller investigation, it is now Ukraine that ...
Trump’s impeachment worries continue to unfold as a whistleblower complaint is made public and Trump reveals Vice President Mike Pence also had phone calls with Ukraine. On Thursday morning a whistleblower complaint which claims President ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Trump impeachment hearings over his administration’s refusal to release a whistleblower complaint about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. Following a tumultuous few days, Democratic leader and House speaker Nancy Pelosi was ...
“It’s going to be chaos. We’re going to see suits brought all over the country.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) repealed an Obama-era rule on Thursday that expanded the federal government’s regulatory power over much ...
“Can anyone imagine the government ordering you to disconnect your child from life-saving care — to pull them from a hospital bed — knowing that it will cost them their lives?” The Trump administration has ...
“The NSA has been vacuuming up hundreds of millions of Americans’ call records as part of a program that is hopelessly complex and lacks any discernible evidence of its value.” The Trump administration urged Congress ...
“I would want them legally to be able to come to America or to be able to live in America, just without being forced into these places away from their parents.” In late June of ...
“This rule seeks to undermine our civil rights protections and encourages discrimination in the workplace — and we will work to stop it.” The Department of Labor proposed a rule on Wednesday to allow federal ...
“It’s really, really getting bad out here. There’s no incentive to keep farming, except that I’ve invested everything I have in farming, and it’s hard to walk away.” After President Trump announced new rounds of ...
“The Endangered Species Act works; our communities—both natural and human—have reaped the benefits. This safety net must be preserved.” The Trump administration rolled out sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act on Monday, weakening protections ...
“Let me get this straight. You’re still due to get at least a million-dollar payout from when you lobbied for Raytheon. You won’t commit to recuse yourself.” Mark Esper won the approval of the Senate ...
“This is like assembling a panel of ‘gravity skeptics’ who insist it’s safe to jump off tall buildings, except in this case they want to take us all with them.” The White House tried to ...
Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG [Liquified Natural Gas] project is critical to spreading ‘freedom gas’ throughout the world… The Department of Energy has begun using peculiar phrasing in regards to fossil fuels. A ...
“Let’s stop pretending that settlements are what is keeping the sides from a negotiated peaceful solution. This farce and obsessive focus on one aspect of this complicated conflict helps no one.” Last Thursday, Indonesia’s Foreign ...
“This policy would, over time, cut or take away entirely food assistance, health and other forms of basic assistance from millions of people who struggle to put food on the table, keep a roof over ...
This is the first entry in a multi-part series which takes an in-depth look at the Mueller Report. Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team did not exonerate President Trump nor his administration of all ...
“If true, these new reports raise grave questions about what derogatory information career officials obtained about Mr. Kushner to recommend denying him access to our nation’s most sensitive secrets.” On March 28, 2019, the Senate ...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating whether the White House interfered with relief funding intended for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Growing tension over the situation in Puerto Rico has been further ...
“The hallmark of a civilized society is measured by how it treats its people and those within its borders,” Sabraw said in his ruling. (Reuters) – In a blow to the Trump administration’s U.S.-Mexico border ...
“We are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power, into corruption … and into obstruction of justice.” (By Tim Ahmann, Reuters) – The House Judiciary Committee will seek documents from more than 60 people ...
Guzmán’s trial is a telenovela-style explainer on why a wall is unlikely to stop the lucrative U.S.-Mexico drug trade. (The Conversation, by Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong) The trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán ...
The United States is now in its longest ever government shutdown, but how is that actually affecting departments? Parts of the U.S. federal government remain closed in what is turning out to be the longest shutdown ...
Earlier today Citizen’s Truth received exclusive confirmation regarding upcoming humanitarian action at the United States and Mexico border. Grannies Respond formed after news of families being separated at the border became a national story, per ...
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