Month: September 2020

Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs chairman says he regrets participating in Trump photo-op | GOP senators back Joint Chiefs chairman who voiced regret over Trump photo-op | Senate panel approves 0B defense policy bill Trump on collision course with…

A man was found dead at the Hollywood home of top Democratic donor Ed Buck on Monday, less than two years after a 2017 investigation into the death of another man who died from an overdose at his place. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, paramedics went to Buck’s apartment in West Hollywood…

As France, India, the U.S., and other nations face unprecedented and deadly heat waves, new research published Wednesday showed the planet has warmed more quickly in recent decades than at any point in the past 2,000 years. The new research, published in the journals Nature and Nature Geoscience, draws upon historical data which demonstrates warming…

A new Public Citizen analysis shows that over the past five years—as rising global temperatures repeatedly set records—national television news networks and the 50 most widely circulated newspapers in the United States increased their coverage of right-wing think tanks denying the climate emergency or that the global crisis is the result of unsustainable human activity.…

Click:Manlift Slew Drive The Trump administration is reportedly advancing a massive arms sales to Taiwan as White House tensions with Beijing are rising. According to the Washington Post, “The State Department late Thursday submitted the package for informal review, said the people familiar with the sale.” The $8 billion package includes 66 F-16 fighter jets…

A new analysis from the nonprofit advocacy group Consumer Reports warns that American drivers could lose about $460 billion dollars in fuel savings if the Trump administration implements its proposal to gut federal fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards for passenger cars and light-duty trucks. “The evidence shows that lowering fuel economy and emissions…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday evening was incredulous over the behavior of New York Times columnist Bret Stephens in response to an innocuous tweet mocking him as a metaphorical bedbug infesting the Times offices.  On Monday, after news broke of the Times “infestation,” George Washington University digital communications professor David Karpf joked that the bedbugs represented Stephens. That prompted…

Lawyers for President Donald Trump Wednesday argued in a Manhattan courtroom that were the president to shoot someone on 5th Avenue in New York City, he could not be prosecuted while in office because of presidential immunity.  “Trump’s lawyers openly declared that Trump is above all laws, including murder,” tweeted Rep. Bill Pascrale (D-N.J.) in…

Rep. Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardGabbard drops defamation lawsuit against Clinton It’s as if a Trump operative infiltrated the Democratic primary process 125 lawmakers urge Trump administration to support National Guard troops amid pandemic MORE (D-Hawaii) plans to hold a rally Feb. 2 in Hawaii to formally launch her 2020 White House bid, her campaign announced Friday. Gabbard…

A long-delayed hearing on alleged voting irregularities in North Carolina’s 9th District is set to begin on Feb. 18, the State Board of Elections announced Monday. The date for the meeting comes days after North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, appointed five members to a new elections board after the previous panel was dissolved…