Month: September 2020

The large-scale and indiscriminate bombing of Raqqa, Syria by the U.S. military and allied forces last year likely breached international humanitarian law and amounted to war crimes, according to a new report by Amnesty International. The coalition’s “war of annihilation,” as it was called by Defense Secretary James Mattis, killed hundreds of civilians and injured…

In a political maneuver one commentator described as a “monstrous” attempt to “use functionally kidnapped children as literal hostages” to advance an extremist anti-immigrant agenda, House Republicans are circulating a legislative plan that would limit the Trump administration’s family separation policy while simultaneously ramming through cuts to legal immigration and adding billions to fund the…

Click:1P 2 200kA Surge White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah on Tuesday declined multiple opportunities to deny a report that President Donald Trump struck an undisclosed agreement with outgoing Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy over replacing him with Brett Kavanaugh—Kennedy’s former law clerk. After Trump revealed Monday night that he had selected Kavanaugh—who has been…

“Mitch McConnell should follow the Mitch McConnell rule. Let the American people have a say when women’s health and equal rights are on the line.” As the #MidtermsBeforeSCOTUS hashtag began to take off on Wednesday, that was how Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) responded to the news that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring, a…

Resisting the Trump-Pence administration’s anti-choice and anti-woman agenda, dozens of woman dressed as handmaids from the novel and TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” are planning to greet Vice President Mike Pence when he arrives in Philadelphia on Monday for a GOP fundraiser. The white bonnets and red dresses and capes worn by the protesters will…

What’s more troubling: That the grotesque liar and right-wing narcissist Donald Trump was elected by the American people to be President of the United States in 2016? Or that there is now apparently a secret cabal of unelected right-wing officials inside his White House—at least according to a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday afternoon—that…

Donald Trump Jr.Don John TrumpTrump Jr. calls elderly supporter who was assaulted Trump Jr. hits Howard Stern for going ‘establishment,’ ‘acting like Hillary’ Trump Jr., GOP senator lash out at Facebook for taking down protest pages on stay-at-home orders MORE on Sunday penned an op-ed backing a Wyoming businessman in an upcoming primary to replace outgoing…

Former Libertarian presidential candidate Gary JohnsonGary Earl JohnsonWhere Biden, Trump stand in key swing states Amash decides against Libertarian campaign for president The Hill’s Campaign Report: Amash moves toward Libertarian presidential bid MORE announced on Tuesday that he’s launching a Senate campaign in New Mexico. Johnson announced his bid on the Libertarian ticket over Twitter,…

Susan Mills considers herself fortunate. As of Sept. 9, she’s been able to visit her 84-year-old mother, Barbara, daily at her long-term care home, west of Ottawa. Since May, Mills had been trying to become an essential caregiver — defined by the province as a visitor who provides essential support services and direct care to…

While workers’ wages have steadily declined since congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump pushed through massive tax cuts for corporations and wealthy Americans in December, a new Politico analysis finds that rather than using their savings to raise employee pay or create jobs, companies are generating “eye-popping payouts” for executives with a record-breaking stock buyback…