As President Donald Trump’s right-wing Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his first confirmation hearing Tuesday morning, progressive lawmakers and advocacy groups are ramping up what has been described as the “biggest campaign against a Supreme Court nominee in U.S. history” to stop a judge who poses a dire […]
Although it has been more than a year since Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, in parts of the U.S. territory, “it’s like the hurricane hit yesterday”—yet President Donald Trump wants to cut off recovery money, according to Axios, “because he claims, without evidence, that the island’s government is using federal disaster relief money to pay […]
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Rep. Ron DeSantisRonald Dion DeSantisGOP tentatively decides on Jacksonville for site of convention DeSantis pushing to host Republican National Convention in Florida Florida bars and theaters to reopen starting Friday, DeSantis says MORE (R-Fla.) brushed off the controversy following his comments warning Florida voters not to “monkey this up” by voting for his African-American Democratic […]
Vulnerable incumbent Democratic senators in Missouri and Montana are locked in virtual dead heats with their Republican challengers, according to new CBS polling. The latest CBS News Battleground Tracker Poll published Sunday found that Montana Sen. Jon TesterJonathan (Jon) TesterSenate confirms Trump’s watchdog for coronavirus funds Montana barrels toward blockbuster Senate fight The 10 Senate seats […]
VANCOUVER — Registered and psychiatric nurses in British Columbia will be able to prescribe safer drugs for people at risk of overdose under a new public health order that advocates are hailing as a major step in the battle to save lives. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry’s order comes as B.C. experiences a record […]
In response to remarks by billionaire and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on Thursday, climate campaigners denounced as both “absurd” and “offensive” his comparison of environmentalists demanding earth-saving policies to xenophobic supporters of Trump enthusiastically pushing to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. […]
Spurring fresh outrage among those who criticize the cozy relationship between the U.S. government and the Saudi monarchy—with emphasis on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS)—political dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabia national living in self-imposed exile abroad, was tortured and killed last week by a Saudi government ‘murder team,’ according […]
As the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday put out a report that warns, “If the current warming rate continues, the world would reach human-induced global warming of 1.5°C (2.7°F) around 2040,” 350.org released a compilation of stories from 13 communities “fighting against fossil fuel projects and for a fast and […]
When she heard the comments, Vanity Fair reporter Emily Jane Fox said her “jaw dropped to the floor.” President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen has gone public with his accounting of private conversations with his former client that contained outlandish racist comments, including one in which Trump announced in 2016 that black people […]