As mayors from towns along the Mississippi River huddled over their phones on March 22nd, they cautiously awaited answers from members of the National Weather Service and emergency agencies across the federal government: “How bad is the flooding going to be? And what can we do to stop it?” Flooding …
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Last week, the House of Representatives voted 420-0 for a measure calling for the Justice Department to release Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s final report to the public. The resolution made its way over to the Senate, where Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) blocked it from being brought up for a vote, …
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According to a study led by Michigan State University professor Mark Skidmore, some $21 trillion in Pentagon accounting transactions, made over a 17-year period, lack supporting data. This doesn’t mean the money is gone — the Pentagon only received roughly $9.2 trillion in budget money during that time — but …
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Whether or not President Trump realized he was watching a rerun from December of a Saturday Night Live episode last night may not have mattered. As we know, it doesn’t take much to get under his skin. Trump took to Twitter this morning to bellow loudly about what he sees …
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Hillary Clinton along with Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Julián Castro gathered with civil rights leaders including Jesse Jackson to commemorate the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday”—the day in 1965 when peaceful marchers were battered and teargassed by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge …
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President Donald Trump‘s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is expected to offer damming testimony about his former boss during a public hearing before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. ET and will be available on most cable news and broadcast networks including CNN, …
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Income inequality isn’t typically a big issue at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. But it was this year, partly because Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) proposed a 70 percent marginal tax rate on income over $10 million shortly before the conference began last month. Though the millionaires and billionaires …
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With Friday’s deadline approaching, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney hit the Sunday morning news shows to let the American people know that the nonsensical and hurtful government shutdown they just endured might be back for another round. Mulvaney told Chuck Todd on NBC’s Meet the Pressthat “you …
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Harley-Davidson is struggling to roll with President Trump’s trade war.Bloomberg reports that the motorcycle giant’s retail sales figures dropped 10 percent in thefinal three months of 2018, marking their eighth straight quarterly decline. Harley shares fell 9.5 percent. In recent years, Harley-Davidson has been in a precarious state. Its once-robust …
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Trump administration officials who leave the White House never truly go away. If they’re not in jail (or about to be, ahem, Michael Cohen), they’re on reality TV. Former communications chief Anthony Scaramucci is no exception. Scaramucci aka “The Mooch” was announced as one of the cast members of the …
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