Did President Trump save 77,000 coal mining jobs?

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events "If we had not overturned this rule, we were looking at nearly 70,000 jobs across the country." - Unidentified participant in President Trump's signing of H.J. Resolution 38, eliminating the Stream Protection Rule, Feb. 16, 2017 "I'm really pleased that we repealed a regulation that was going to be very, very damaging to my state.

Father Of Slain SEAL Says Son Died For Trump To Make ‘Grand Display’: ‘I Want An Investigation’

The father of a Navy SEAL killed during a mission that Donald Trump approved just a week into his administration blames the president for his son's death. William Owens told The Miami Herald that he refused to meet with Trump when the remains of son, William "Ryan" Owens, were returned to Dover Air Force Base.

Spurned Reporters Should Dump Trump Briefings and Turn to Investigative Journalism

Donald Trump was unhappy Saturday that the major media had neglected to report a point made by Herman Cain in an interview on Fox. Cain alleged that in Barack Obama's first month, the Federal budget deficit rose $200 bn., but in Trump's first month it fell to only $12 bn.

Big Pharma Quietly Enlists Leading Professors to Justify $1,000-Per-Day Drugs

Over the last three years, pharmaceutical companies have mounted a public relations blitz to tout new cures for the hepatitis C virus and persuade insurers, including government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, to cover the costs. That isn't an easy sell, because the price of the treatments ranges from $40,000 to $94,000 - or, because the treatments take three months, as much as $1,000 per day.

Watch: Democratic National Committee Chooses Tom Perez As New Chair

The first Latino appointed to the position of DNC chair, Perez beat fellow front-runner Keith Ellison, a representative from Minnesota, by 35 votes. Watch the announcement of Perez's win below: For many, Perez's victory represents the continuation of an " establishment " Democratic Party, and numerous progressives had hoped Ellison would win and revive the party.

If History Has Taught Us Anything, It’s That Clinton Scandals…

I decided to invest some time in Keith Gessen's widely discussed Putin essay , some of which is useful and some of which is strawman burning But it's hard for me to get beyond the argument boldfaced below, and I'm equally amazed to see other people parroting it: There is no reason at this point to dispute the consensus view of most intelligence analysts that Russian agents hacked the DNC and then leaked the emails to Julian Assange; it is also a well-known fact that Putin hated Hillary Clinton. Furthermore, it is true that the election was very close, and it did not take much to tip the result to one side.

The Trump Administration: Restoring Integritude to the White House

The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump's associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials briefed on the matter tell CNN. But a White House official said late Thursday that the request was only made after the FBI indicated to the White House it did not believe the reporting to be accurate White House officials had sought the help of the bureau and other agencies investigating the Russia matter to say that the reports were wrong and that there had been no contacts, the officials said.

Trump backtracks on LGBT issues

There was candidate Donald Trump in Colorado, waving a rainbow flag emblazoned with a "LGBTs for Trump," a photo opportunity meant to signal he was a new brand of Republican when it comes to protecting LGBT Americans. Four months later, faced with a major decision point on the issue, Trump's White House held up another slogan: defense of states' rights.

Fox News Dismisses Huge Town Hall Participation As Paid Liberal Organizing

Fox News personalities are attempting to downplay the huge number of constituents that are attending town hall events held by their members of Congress as "manufactured" and "paid-for," and advocating for the cancellation of events because progressive groups are "activating people to turn out and cause a raucous." Wall Street Journal : "Members Of Congress Are Preparing To Confront A Wave Of Activism When They Return Home To Their Districts."

Nativists And White Supremacists Love Trump’s New Immigration Executive Orders

The Department of Homeland Security on February 21 rolled out a pair of memos meant to set internal guidelines for the implementation of President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant executive orders. The flagship policies of those executive orders are unpopular with a majority of Americans, but they have been a cause for celebration among nativists and white supremacists.

U.S. Gave Hundreds of Millions in Financing to Supplier of Mines Accused of Slave Labor

Over the past decade, the U.S. supplied an industrial chain said to involve slave labor, human rights violations and environmental destruction in Africa with $315 million in taxpayer-supported credit . Between 2007 and 2015, the US Export-Import Bank provided 48 insurance policies to the New Jersey-headquartered Connell Company to pursue deals with at least 17 mining companies in seven sub-Saharan countries.