Month: September 2020

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is trailing state schools superintendent Tony Evers by 10 points in his reelection bid, according to an NBC News/Marist poll released Thursday. Walker gets 43 percent of likely voters’ support in the survey, while 53 percent support Evers. ADVERTISEMENT Walker also has a significant deficit when comparing the two candidates’ favorability…

Two hours before Canada was set to announce how it would retaliate against the controversial U.S. aluminum tariff, President Donald Trump’s administration reversed course. It will once again allow Canadian raw aluminum to be imported into the U.S. duty free, the Office of the United States Trade Representative said in a statement Tuesday. It had…

Amid widespread outrage and condemnation over the tear gassing of mothers, their children, and other asylum seekers and migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday, Ronald Colburn, president of the Border Patrol Foundation and former national deputy chief of the CBP, appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning and claimed the gas—which reports said led…

Click:barbecue filling torch President Donald Trump was panned on Monday for his dismissal of his own administration’s recently released climate assessment. “In all seriousness, the willful denial and obfuscation by Trump on climate change is a crime against humanity. Billions of people will bear incalculable harm for generations to come.  Much, much, much worse than…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) unflinching support for taxing the wealthiest Americans at a rate doubling what they currently pay each year made waves among conservatives over the weekend—but at least one likely Democratic presidential candidate’s backing of the proposal may indicate that it may soon get broader support from the party. On ABC‘s “The Week,”…

In an event described as “breathtaking, heartbreaking, strong, and beautiful,” representatives from native communities around the world came together in Washington, D.C. on Friday for the first-ever Indigenous Peoples March. Organized as a rebuke to the violence and injustices that Indigenous Peoples often face—from the murder of native girls and women to police brutality to…

The deeply harmful government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s demand for billions in border wall funding continued with no agreement in sight. From his vacation spot in Cabo San Lucas, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Sunday sent markets tumbling with a bizarre Twitter statement assuring the public that there is absolutely no reason to believe…

Confirming what a number of Trump critics have pointed out about the president’s ability to pass some of his most dangerous policies while stoking public outrage about unrelated matters, a top Interior Department official shared with fossil fuel executives recently how this strategy has been beneficial to corporate polluters. According to the Guardian, at a…

Formula 1’s team bosses insist triple-header weekends should not become a fixture on the sport’s calendar in the future because of concerns over the strain they put on personnel. Teams have been working flat-out since the start of the 2020 season in July, concluding at Mugello a grueling run of nine races in 12 weeks,…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s former longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen is reportedly willing to campaign against Trump and the GOP ahead of the…