No soldier should be above the law. Nor should those who sent the soldiers into battle. U.S. President Donald Trump sacked his Navy secretary on Twitter. The main reason is that the Navy secretary did ...
“Palantir is engaged in tracking of people and populations the Trump administration despises and when you put Palantir and Facebook together, you’ve got a data operation the Nazis would have adored.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...
“We have proof that the Trump War on Migrant Children was carefully constructed to inflict harm on children and create a humanitarian crisis.” The Trump administration secretly knew its immigration policies would overflow migrant child ...
“Mr. Menashi is one of the most contemptible nominees to come before the Senate in all my time in this body.” The Senate confirmed Trump appointee Steven Menashi to a lifetime position on the U.S. ...
Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Supreme Court in Washington while lawyers presented arguments for and against ending the federal DACA program on Tuesday. The Supreme Court heard over an hour and a half of ...
Bloomberg’s entry reflects a growing fear among billionaires that Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Sen. Bernie Sanders will win the Democratic primary and enact higher taxes if elected president. The New York Times reported on Friday ...
The Arctic Refuge is one of the U.S.’s last wild places, and the coastal plain is its biological heart. As the sun shimmers across a tundra covered with wildflowers and lichen, as many as 80,000 ...
Trump’s lawyer William S. Consovoy pushed a dangerous argument on Wednesday – that the President of the U.S. is above the law while in office, even in cases of violent crimes. President Trump’s lawyer argued ...
The drama continued in the Trump impeachment proceedings with more potentially damaging testimony and a dramatic ‘storming of the gates’ by Republicans. A day after acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor gave a testimony ...
Despite the Trump administration’s attempts to block the House’s impeachment inquiry, witnesses have come forward to testify, unraveling a web of potentially damaging evidence. The impeachment probe into President Trump is rapidly developing, despite the ...
Former FBI director James Comey who has called Donald Trump unfit to be president will be featured in a sure-to-be dramatic miniseries based on Comey’s memoirs of his time during and after the 2016 election. ...
“We fear that he [Barry Lee Myers] wants to turn the weather service into a taxpayer-funded subsidiary of AccuWeather.” Easy access to weather forecasts is a given for most Americans. The national weather service, a ...
PFAS are “forever chemicals”: They take thousands of years to break down—and can remain in our bodies for decades. A handful of multibillion-dollar chemical companies have waged war on our bodies and our environment for ...
“My son and his friends were killed by the Americans. How could they do this to us?” A U.S. drone strike killed 30 farmers and workers in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province who were resting after harvesting ...
“An administration staffed by former industry lobbyists will almost certainly favor industry over the general public.” In less than three years, President Trump has assigned more former lobbyists to Cabinet-level positions than former Presidents Obama ...
“I got sued on a thing called emoluments. Emoluments. You ever hear of the word? Nobody ever heard of it before. And what it is is presidential harassment, because [the presidency] is costing me a ...
“This will be the biggest fight in environmental law since the Clean Power Plan. Maybe bigger.” President Trump said his administration would revoke an Obama-era waiver on Wednesday that allowed California to set its own ...
“Millions of voters looking for a conservative alternative to the status quo deserve a chance to hear alternate ideas aired on the national stage.” President Trump’s three Republican primary challengers wrote a joint opinion column ...
After both liberal and conservative media outlets ran away with conflicting studies on Trump rallies and hate crimes, is anyone telling the truth? Three Texas professors from the University of North Texas and Texas A&M-Commerce ...
Whether John Bolton was fired or he resigned is unclear, but one thing is for sure, Trump’s hawkish advisor is out. President Trump fired his hawkish National Security Advisor John Bolton on Tuesday, tweeting, “I ...
“I will send you to Paris. You’ll live there, you’ll chat a little, we’ll get you cleaned up. We’ll make you a portfolio, I’ll show your pictures to a rich man.” One of the lesser-known ...
“Our primary opponent is the Fake News Media. In the history of our Country, they have never been so bad!” Some of President Trump’s political allies are raising money to find dirt on journalists and ...
“It’s difficult at this stage to see how there can be a deal or at least a good deal.” New tariffs on more than $110 billion in Chinese imports took effect Sunday, a sharp escalation ...
“Deutsche Bank has been unique in loaning money to Trump and often for reasons that are difficult to fathom.” The latest chapter in an ongoing legal battle to unearth President Trump’s tax returns found German ...
“I feel the U.S. has tremendous wealth… I’m not going to lose that wealth on dreams, on windmills – which, frankly, aren’t working too well… I think I know more about the environment than most.” ...
“I doubt anything can be done to overturn the EPA actions at this point, at least not quickly. The administration has demonstrated it has no respect for scientific conclusions, court orders, or public demands for ...
“The yield curves are all crying timber that a recession is almost a reality, and investors are tripping over themselves to get out of the way.” The U.S. stock market plunged to its worst day ...
“This attempted power grab at the expense of state-based clean water oversight is the epitome of hypocrisy.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Environmentalists on Friday denounced the Trump administration for once again attempting to boost ...
An Ohio man was charged on Friday after writing on Facebook that Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “should be shot.” “She should be shot. Can’t fire me, my employer would load the gun for me,” the ...
“The workers alleged that supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday activities at work, such as using bathrooms, taking ...
“The United States has walked into a corner. By sanctioning Iran, it has suggested that it is not interested in diplomacy.” Word of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to sanction Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif ...
“Economic analysis suggests that bilateral trade wars are unwinnable in an interconnected world. By firing his latest tariff salvo against China, Trump has further raised the stakes in an increasingly damaging dispute. And America is ...
“I don’t understand the mind-set that you can’t talk about what happened because somehow it is disrespectful to the victims. I think what is disrespectful to the victims is to ignore why it happened. There ...
President Trump announced another round of tariffs on Chinese goods on Thursday, the latest development in an escalating trade war between the world’s greatest economies. In a series of tweets, Trump said his administration would ...
“Senators must put an end to this blatant disrespect to our judicial system, traditions, and democracy. They must demand that each nomination receives a roll call vote, so the public knows where their senators stand.” ...
“We have experimented educationally on children who are poor, who are of color, who go to underfunded schools. We come up with ways of teaching them that are experiments and have absolutely no kind of ...
“What we are saying is what we are seeing in the streets. We are telling a story of the moment we are in right now.” Puerto Rican recording artists Bad Bunny, Residente, and iLe released ...
“No one is above the law in this country, not even the President of the United States.” Broadcast live online from Riverside Church in New York City on June 24 for one night only, a ...
“Years and Years” is described as a parable for those who oppose Brexit, Donald Trump, and lament the “tolerant, democratic, globalized social order of the late 20th century that is collapsing around them.” The new ...
“They admitted their guilt. If you look at [former prosecutor] Linda Fairstein, you look at some of the prosecutors, they think that the city should never have settled that case, so we’ll leave it at ...
Oprah Winfrey highlights When They See Us, the story of the Central Park Five, with airings on Netflix and OWN. The new Netflix drama miniseries When They See Us, released last month, quickly drew national ...
Singer Taylor Swift sends a message of LGBTQ support to her senators and fans. On June 1, the first day of LGBTQ Pride Month, music superstar Taylor Swift penned an open letter in favor of ...
In the latest chapter in ongoing litigation, the private equity fund that bought what used to be called the Trump Ocean Club claims the Trump entities pocketed money that should have gone to the Panamanian ...
“The commerce is there. The defense of that commerce is not.” As the 21st-century space race builds momentum, questions regarding the legal framework regulating economic development in outer space hold enormous consequences. The most advanced ...
The new season of Our Cartoon President will move from being a satire of Trump to being more of a satire about Washington overall. TV host Stephen Colbert’s cartoon portrayal of President Donald Trump in ...
“I care deeply about our country and what’s happening to it. And the world, the environment and everything that’s going on.” Comedian and talk show host Ellen Degeneres recently told “Variety” magazine that she plans ...
The orders are in part an attempt to develop the northeastern Constitution pipeline, which has been stalled after New York cited the Clean Water Act to reject it. President Trump signed two executive orders on ...
“Trump has shamefully vetoed our bipartisan effort to end the unconstitutional US-Saudi war in Yemen, which has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” President Trump issued the second veto of his presidency on Tuesday, derailing ...
“Illegal Immigrants who can no longer be legally held…will be, subject to Homeland Security, given to Sanctuary Cities and States!” House committee chairs have requested documents from the White House and Department of Homeland Security ...
In these times of great political strife, when both major parties are entrenched in their ‘win at all cost’ battles, the voices of the American people are being ignored and our nation is suffering. Former ...
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