The Justice Department is reportedly investigating Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke after a probe into his conduct was referred by the Interior Department’s internal watchdog. Interior’s inspector general is currently conducting multiple investigations into Zinke possible use of his office for personal gain, including a Montana land deal backed by the chairman of oil giant Halliburton […]
Hard on the campaign trail in the lead up to the midterm elections, President Donald Trump is beating the fear-mongering drum hard. In addition to declaring that the caravan of a few thousand people (estimates run from 3,600 to 7,000) walking at around 28 miles a day and still 1,000 miles away from the U.S. […]
FedEx said on Tuesday that it will stop providing discounts to members of the National Rifle Association, eight months after ThinkProgress reported that the shipping company was helping the gun lobby entice members. The decision comes three days after a gunman entered a Pittsburgh synagogue and shot and killed 11 people and wounded several others. The […]
FedEx said on Tuesday that it will stop providing discounts to members of the National Rifle Association, eight months after ThinkProgress reported the that the shipping company was helping the gun lobby entice members. The decision comes three days after a gunman entered a Pittsburgh synagogue and shot and killed 11 people and wounded several […]
I’m willing to admit that African Americans have an unsteady and unequal alliance within the Democratic Party. Over the years, plenty of political observers have waxed extensively about the fact that black voters disproportionately cast ballots for Democrats, but often receive relatively little in return. And, to be honest, I’ve said so as well. The […]
I’m willing to admit that African Americans have an unsteady and unequal alliance within the Democratic Party. Over the years, plenty of political observers have waxed extensively about the fact that black voters disproportionately cast ballots for Democrats, but often receive relatively little in return. And, to be honest, I’ve said so as well. The […]
In a victory for environmentalists, a Wyoming court has found that a controversial trespass law violates the right to free speech. The state’s district court ruled Monday that Senate File 12, better known as the Data Trespass Law, is unconstitutional because it is “in violation of the First Amendment.” The law made it illegal for […]
Fox News continues to push a conspiracy theory that a caravan of migrants traveling through Mexico toward the U.S. border represents an “invasion,” even after it motivated a gunman to carry out the largest mass killing of Jews in American history at a synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning. The gunman, Robert Bowers, repeatedly referred […]
Fox News continues to push a conspiracy theory that a caravan of migrants traveling through Mexico toward the U.S. border represents an “invasion,” even after it motivated a gunman to carry out the largest mass killing of Jews in American history at a synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning. The gunman, Robert Bowers, repeatedly referred […]
The attorneys for one of the extremists found guilty of plotting in 2016 to bomb Somali immigrants in Kansas floated a novel defense in an effort to obtain a lighter sentence for their client: blame Donald Trump. In a sentencing memo filed Monday and first reported by HuffPost, James Pratt and Michael Shultz said their […]
After Saturday’s mass shooting by a xenophobic anti-Semite at a Pittsburgh synagogue left at least 11 dead — the worst single attack on American Jews ever — Donald Trump departed from his own dabbles in anti-Jewish bigotry to tell the nation “there must be no tolerance for anti-Semitism in America.” Nonetheless, in the days since that […]
President Donald J. Trump, paragon of good taste, played the song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams at a political rally in Indiana, the same day that 11 people were murdered at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In another time, this gaffe would likely have gone unremarked upon by most people, Pharrell included. Surely Trump […]
Noor Haidary was just a few blocks away from Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday, when he heard police sirens from Temple Sinai, where he works as a custodian. “I saw the police driving this way and that,” Haidary told ThinkProgress. He walked outside and watched as first responders made their way to the […]
It was the first case outcome of its kind: a total of $780,000 in damages for two transgender women who were denied medically necessary health care because of their gender identity. It was also likely the first time a court found that facial feminization surgery was medically necessary. The women now hope that if eight […]
The Trump administration designated a Civil War site in Kentucky as a national monument, a decision that runs counter to the administration’s emphasis on reducing the size of national monuments. The move has sparked skepticism among green groups. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Friday — under authority of the Antiquities Act of 1906 — […]
Donald Trump, in an interview with Axios, said that he plans to sign an executive order stripping many Americans of their citizenship. Though it is unclear how far Trump wants to go, or whether he would attempt to retroactively strip many existing citizens of their citizenship, Trump apparently wants to target the children of undocumented […]
Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison for allegedly terminating her own pregnancy with medication she ordered online. By the time the Indiana Court of Appeals overturned the feticide conviction in 2016, Patel had been incarcerated for three years. Patel is one of at least 20 people who was arrested or investigated for […]
President Donald Trump complained that his predecessor Barack Obama wasn’t criticized for the 2015 mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina during an interview with Fox News on Monday. After Laura Ingraham asked the president about last week’s attempted bombings of almost a dozen prominent Democrats who have been frequent […]
Vice President Mike Pence attended a campaign event in Michigan on Monday for Republican Senate candidate John James, GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Schuette, and other conservatives on the ballot. The rally near Grand Rapids, occurring just two days after a gunman murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue in what is likely the deadliest anti-Semitic […]
A Monday campaign event for Corey Stewart, the Republican Senate candidate from Virginia and Minnesota man who is very concerned about the destruction of Confederate monuments, featured a speaker who urged conservatives “to turn that ‘blue wave’ into a blue grave.” According to a video tweeted by Ian Sams, communications director for Sen. Tim Kaine […]
President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Monday it is sending 5,000 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in the latest stunt designed to raise fears about a migrant caravan traveling north from Central America. The Pentagon, under Defense Secretary James Mattis, reportedly approved operation Faithful Patriot last week. Despite initial estimates that 800 troops would […]