Citing the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, which forbids unequal treatment based on religion, a federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday evening issued a firm rebuke to President Trump by issuing a nationwide temporary injunction against the administration’s second attempt at instituting a travel and immigration ban aimed at people from six […]
Despite widespread popular outcry, House Republicans on Tuesday voted to strip citizens’ of their right to privacy online, selling out the American public to the deep-pocketed telecom industry. With 215 voting for and 205 against, 15 GOP representatives joined the Democrats in opposing the S.J. Res. 34, a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to repeal […]
Despite calls for them to stay in Washington, D.C. to address President Donald Trump’s unilateral military action in Syria, members of Congress are all but certain to be on recess for the next two weeks—and the resistance plans to hold them accountable on everything from the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to the […]
Loopholes and weaknesses in President Donald Trump’s much-touted “Buy American, Hire American” executive order signed Tuesday abound, critics note, and the order is only looking more flimsy at it meets push-back not just from progressives but also from the companies the order is purportedly intended to boost: manufacturing firms. Most notably, the directive to use […]
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Wednesday that Doug Jones’s Senate win in Alabama is a “good day for America” because it was a blow to Stephen Bannon. Bannon, a former White House chief strategist, campaigned for Jones’s GOP challenger, Roy Moore, who lost the race for the Senate seat after facing weeks of […]
West Virginia Rep. Evan JenkinsEvan Hollin JenkinsWest Virginia New Members 2019 Republican Carol Miller holds off Democrat in West Virginia House race Trump to fundraise for 3 Republicans running for open seats: report MORE (R) is calling on his primary challenger to renounce his support from former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon after the […]
With the Trump administration reportedly on the verge of withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, environmental groups are warning that doing so could make the U.S. an international pariah. “Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement would turn America from a global climate leader into a global climate deadbeat.”—Annie Leonard, Greenpeace News outlets reported Tuesday that […]
Privacy activists released a toolkit on Tuesday to help parents protect their children’s information online. The Parent Toolkit for Student Privacy: A Practical Guide for Protecting Your Child’s Sensitive School Data from Snoops, Hackers, and Marketers, released by the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy (PCSP) and the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), teaches families […]
In the wake of the deadly fire that devastated residents of London’s Grenfell Tower—a fire believed to have been caused in part by government neglect and design flaws stemming from an effort to make the building look nicer to appease the wealthy—hundreds took to the streets on Friday to demand swift action from the British […]
Hundreds of firefighters are continuing to battle flames in central Portugal on Sunday from a forest fire that broke out a day earlier and has claimed the lives of at least 61 people. “At least four other significant wildfires affected different areas of the country on Sunday,” the Associated Press writes, “but the one in […]