Explaining The Confusion Behind The Limited Travel Ban Guidelines
The State Department guidelines for the limited travel ban allow for some family members and not others, including grandparents. Reuter's Yeganeh Torbati explains the confusion.
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The biggest winner in the current health-care debate: Single-payer
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events People rally in favor of single-payer health care for all Californians on Tuesday in South Gate, Calif. We still don't know who will ultimately prevail in the debate over the future of American health care: the Republicans who want to overhaul Obamacare, or the Democrats who want to keep it in place.
The Violent “American Century”
John Dower is one the most preeminent historians of World War II's Pacific theater and the aftermath of the conflict in Asia. His book War Without Mercy described the racial component of the U.S. campaign against Japan.
UN: Saudi Bloc attempt to close Al Jazeera is attack on Freedom of Expression
Reuters reports that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, is "extremely concerned by the demand that Qatar close down the Al Jazeera network, as well as other affiliated media outlets." "Whether or not you watch it, like it, or agree with its editorial standpoints, Al Jazeera's Arabic and English channels are legitimate, and have many millions of viewers.
American Judge Says ‘Democracy Is Broken” as Court Declines to Oversee Drone Killing
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In Sickness and in Health
In this still image from "The Big Sick," stand-up comic, actor and writer Kumail Nanjiani pitches woo to Zoe Kazan, the on-screen counterpart of Nanjiani's real-life wife and "Sick" screenplay co-writer Emily V. Gordon. In "The Big Sick," stand-up jokester Kumail Nanjiani describes acceptable professions for a Pakistani-American.
Numerous States Reject Trump’s Demand for Voter Data
A handful of states are pushing back against a sweeping demand from a controversial Trump voting commission for information about voters in every state. Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity was met with outrage at its inception last month, as it is headed by " notorious vote suppressor " Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and is tasked with investigating " the imagined scourge of voter fraud ."
BLACKMAIL
MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough described President Donald Trump's "unmoored behavior" in a Washington Post column where they alleged that "this year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked." Brzezinski and Scarborough wrote they ignored the "desperate pleas" from the White House.
Fox & Friends ignores WSJ report suggesting possible Russia collusion
President Donald Trump's favorite morning news show, Fox News' Fox & Friends , completely ignored a Wall Street Journal report about a Republican Party operative who sought former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's emails from Russian hackers and who may have been working with then-Trump senior adviser Michael Flynn. On June 29, the Journal reported that before the 2016 presidential election, GOP operative Peter Smith "mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton's private server, likely by Russian hackers."
Trump’s Muslim Ban Comes Into Effect
People from six mainly Muslim countries and all refugees now face tougher US entry due to President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban. It means people without close family or business relationships in the US could be denied visas and barred entry.
Mika/Joe Respond: ‘Donald Trump is Not Well’
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough: President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal. America's leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to be president.
Nostalgia Isn’t Just an Escape-Science Says It’s Important for Coping, Too
In his song "Time Was," counterculture singer Phil Ochs reminisces about a past "when a man could build a home, have a family of his own. The peaceful years would flow; he could watch his children grow.
The conservatives defending and applauding Trump’s sexist statement about Mika Brzezinski
President Donald Trump's sexist tweets targeting MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski's appearance were defended and applauded by a variety of conservatives including a Fox host, the White House deputy press secretary, fringe right-wing media figures, and other Republicans. I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me .
Scientist: EPA Pressured Me to Change Testimony
A Minnesota scientist who leads an Environmental Protection Agency scientific advisory board says she was pressured by the agency's chief of staff to change her congressional testimony to downplay the Trump administration's decision not to reappoint half the panel's members. Emails show that EPA Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson asked Deborah Swackhamer, who recently retired from the University of Minnesota, to stick to the agency's stance at a hearing last month that the decision on those appointments had not yet been made.
Hillary Clinton and the Fear of War With Russia
Editor's note: The following essay is an excerpt from "How I Lost by Hillary Clinton" and reprinted by arrangement with OR Books . CLINTON: I would love it if we could continue to build a more positive relationship with Russia.
Scientists Have Made a Discovery That Could Make Phone Charges Last Months
A new material could relieve the nagging concern that plagues many a cell phone user and help significantly reduce our carbon footprints. It is formed of thin layers of atoms which make up a magnetically polar film.
Cheer Up, Democrats
For starters, consider the numbers. Every one of these races was a long shot, and in every case the Democrat did notably better than his counterpart in 2014 or 2016.
Top Court Reinstates Trump’s Travel Ban, Will Hear Arguments
The Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration mostly enforce its 90-day ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries, overturning lower court orders that blocked it. The court did leave one category of foreigners protected, those "with a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States," the court said in an unsigned opinion.
Disabled Activists Put Their Bodies On the Line to Defend Health Care
Security officials on Thursday remove an activist from a group involved in a sit-in outside of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. during a protest against proposed cuts to Medicaid. "They haven't told us what we're being arrested for yet," said Rhoda Gibson, an organizer with ADAPT , a groups that advocates for disability rights.
Finally, the Poor Will Have the Freedom to Die
While officiating Secretary of the Treasury Jay Gould's third wedding, Vice-President Torquemada found time to tweet a picture of the wedding of a bunch of millionaires and billionaires and use this as the message: Before summer's out, we'll repeal/replace Obamacare w/ system based on personal responsibility, free-market competition & state-based reform pic.twitter.com/JzCyxX9kJb Senate Republicans are expected to revise their health bill early next week, adding in a provision that could lock Americans out of the individual market for six months if they fail to maintain continuous insurance coverage.