Voting rights advocates are raising alarm over the Trump administration’s efforts to add a new question to the 2020 census, asking respondents whether or not they are U.S. citizens. Census researchers currently testing the survey have seen “an unprecedented amount of concern about the confidentiality of census data, particularly among immigrants,” according to the Huffington […]
In spite of his record low approval ratings and a series of polls that peg him as the loser in the next presidential race, President Donald Trump reportedly believes that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—who is seen as a top challenger to Trump in 2020 and currently the most popular politician in the country—is not “a […]
Nearly 100 people were killed and more than 150 injured on Saturday after an attacker detonated an “explosive-laden” ambulance in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for what was described by one aid group as “a massacre.” “The attacker used the ambulance to get through a security checkpoint in central Kabul, […]
National Republicans are feeling increasingly optimistic about their chances of avoiding an intraparty bloodbath in the West Virginia Senate primary. A spate of recent polling shows ex-coal CEO Don Blankenship fading into third place in the primary race, after an outside group with ties to the national GOP spent heavily to sink his candidacy. That’s […]
Ex-coal CEO Don Blankenship, who lost the GOP primary bid in West Virginia this week, is actively plotting how to undercut state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s Senate candidacy. Greg Thomas, an adviser and campaign manager for Blankenship, said on Thursday that Blankenship will not support his former rival and “all options are on the table” as Blankenship weighs […]
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt argued in at least two recent interviews that green groups, scientists, and other advocates working to slow the climate crisis are “arrogant” in saying that humans should work to keep the earth from warming. “Do we know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100 […]
Click:ecolchi Providing further evidence that the bank deregulation bill currently sailing through the Senate—with the essential help of 12 Democrats and Sen. Angus King (I-Maine)—is more about enriching large financial institutions than helping community banks, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in a report unveiled late Monday that the bipartisan measure would exempt big banks […]
Animal rights advocates denounced the Trump administration’s reversal of a ban on animal trophy imports, announced in a memo issued last week, and the secrecy with which President Donald Trump’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) will now allow some Americans to import endangered species they have killed in African countries. The agency said it […]
A lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump has violated constitutional law by profiting from his Washington, D.C. hotel will proceed, after a federal judge in Maryland rejected the Trump administration’s bid to have the case thrown out on Wednesday. The attorneys general of Washington, D.C. and Maryland allege that Trump is in violation of the […]
A new report released on Equal Pay Day shows that the gender wage gap has actually worsened for women under 40 in recent years, despite increased media attention on the issue alongside mounting demands that businesses and politicians crack down on workplace sexual harassment, which researchers have tied to pay inequality. “Despite the great awareness […]