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Jan 12 2017
News
FACT CHECK: Trump Lawyer's Claim And Comparison to Rockefeller Is a Head Scratcher
Among the unusual elements of President-elect Donald Trump's Wednesday news conference was a 15-minute interlude in which an attorney took the podium and described Trump's plan to address potential conflicts of interest between his businesses and the responsibilities of his office.
NPR (Online News)
Sep 06 2019
News
California dive boat owner quickly asks judge to limit payouts to victims’ families
The owners of the California diving boat that burned during a Labor Day weekend charter near Santa Barbara, killing 34 people aboard, have turned to a 19th-century maritime law to argue they should not have to pay any money to the families of victims.
In their petition filed Thursday, attorneys for the owners Truth Aquatics Inc., Glen Fritzler and his wife, Dana, cite an 1851 statute in
Los Angeles Times
Nov 17 2020
News
Facebook, Twitter CEOs Brace for Another Grilling Before Senate Committee
CEOs of two big social-media platforms hope to show senators Tuesday that their companies performed better in the 2020 elections compared with 2016, but they are likely to face hostile questions anyway.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Facebook Inc.’s FB -1.87% Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter Inc.’s TWTR -0.16% Jack Dorsey are expected to tout improvements their companies made in
Wall Street Journal (News)
Oct 29 2019
Opinion
The high price of the public charge rule: America will get sicker if this anti-immigration measure goes into effect
Earlier this month, changes to a federal rule were supposed to go into effect that would have put an overwhelming number of immigrants in danger. The rule would expand the scope of the “public charge rule” and deny permanent-resident status to certain immigrants when the government believes they are likely to receive public benefits, such as Medicaid, food subsidies and housing assistance.
New York Daily News
Jul 24 2019
News
Budget Deal Reached
“President Donald Trump and congressional leaders have announced a critical debt and budget agreement… The agreement is on a broad outline for $1.37 trillion in agency spending next year and slightly more in fiscal 2021. It would mean a win for lawmakers eager to return Washington to a more predictable path amid political turmoil and polarization, defense hawks determined to cement big
The Flip Side
Mar 19 2015
News
Where do strained U.S.-Israeli relations go after Netanyahu’s victory?
President Obama told the U.N. General Assembly 18 months ago that he would seek “real breakthroughs on these two issues — Iran’s nuclear program and Israeli-Palestinian peace.”
Washington Post
Jun 30 2020
News
Supreme Court hands win to religious schools
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a Montana policy that excludes religious schools from a general student aid program violates religious freedoms protected under the U.S. Constitution.
The 5-4 majority decision, which fell along ideological lines, said that by making state-backed private school scholarships off-limits to parochial schools, the program ran afoul of First Amendment
The Hill
Aug 07 2020
News
Trump’s environmental rollbacks: A four-year tide of regulatory change
Days after entering office, President Donald Trump made a promise: He would eliminate two rules for every one signed into existence.
Since then, he has sought to make good on that pledge and more – touting his reversal of a “regulatory assault” on the economy at a White House event on July 16, saying, “The American people know best how to run their own lives.”
Although many
Christian Science Monitor
Jun 02 2016
News
Politifact: Hillary Clinton's Repeated Claims Using Private Email Server 'Was Allowed' is False
As Hillary Clinton's email scandal continues to get worse, with an Inspector General report debunking a number of lies about her personal server last week, the Clinton campaign is ignoring the law of holes: When you're in one, quit digging.
Townhall
May 07 2018
News
Trump shows how much faith he has in Giuliani, with more attacks on Mueller's investigation
On Sunday, Donald Trump’s new attorney/spokesman/official promoter of chaos, Rudy Giuliani said that Trump had agreed to concentrate on doing his job—dealing with North Korea, threatening to break a treaty with Iran, sneaking in phone calls to Putin when John Kelly isn’t looking—and leave dealing with Mueller to Giuliani. Which Giuliani is dealing with in his own very special way.
Daily Kos