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"It is clear that Trump and Senate Republicans are not at all interested in learning the truth about Brett Kavanaugh's history of abusing women, but rather want to push forward his nomination and will do so at all costs, including vile and disgusting smear attacks against the brave women who have come forward to share their stories - like Deborah Ramirez and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. "Despite desperate attempts by Donald Trump and Republicans in the Senate to make it so, Brett Kavanaugh is not the victim here: Deborah Ramirez and Christine Blasey Ford are.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of the Inspector General released a report today finding that the agency's practice of routinely granting "emergency" approval for use of pesticides across millions of acres does not effectively measure risks to human health or the environment. The inspector general recommended that the EPA "develop and implement applicable outcome-based performance measures to demonstrate the human health and environmental effects of the EPA's emergency exemption decisions."
A Union of Concerned Scientists analysis released today highlights the significant health risks posed to military families and communities by a class of synthetic chemicals found in firefighting foam, nonstick cookware and other products. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are long-lasting compounds known to accumulate in the human body and environment, including water supplies.
John Lewis Congress losing faith in Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi Obama to urge rejection of 'authoritarian politics and policies' in speech Florida's Darren Soto fends off Dem challenge from Alan Grayson MORE John Andrew Boehner Democrats should be careful what they wish for Blue wave poses governing risks for Dems Nancy Pelosi: Will she remain the 'Face of the Franchise'? MORE , and Republican legislatures across the country. He declared that voting rights are under attack in America.
It was the call issued in 1968 by country music's "First Lady," Tammy Wynette, instructions famously spurned in 1992 by then-First Lady Hillary Clinton as she waved away allegations of sexual impropriety against her husband. "You know, I'm not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette," Clinton said in a "60 Minutes" interview.
As the FBI and local authorities desperately search for a 6-year-old boy who went missing in a North Carolina park, investigators are using divers, helicopters, drones and the boy's parents' voices to try to find him. Maddox Ritch, 6, who has autism and does not talk, went missing Saturday while at the Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia with his family, police said.
Don't go looking for that pesky 2018 federal farm bill anytime soon. As a matter of fact, it's likely to be 2019 before the bill surfaces again, and even then, it's likely to "beat up on poor people" just about as much as it does now, in the words of Congressman Jim McGovern, who is on the conference committee that's now hammering out differences ... (more)
Democrat Kate Brown and Republican Knute Buehler nearly tied, nonaffiliated voters lean toward GOP, in latest survey of likely voters. The governor's race between Democratic incumbent Kate Brown and GOP candidate Rep. Knute Buehler remains hair-raisingly close, according to a new poll by Clout Research.
The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. On June 18, President Trump announced that he was directing the Pentagon to develop a new branch of the US military, a "Space Force" that would give the US "dominance" in that realm.
The investigation into Russian election interference is often called the Mueller probe, but it's Rod Rosenstein who oversees it. Rosenstein's fate as deputy attorney general remains in the air after a revelation surfaced last week that he floated the idea of recording President Donald Trump.
In this Oct. 19, 2016, file photo, former U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., listens to Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. speak during a campaign stop in Detroit.
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] on Monday reversed [opinion, PDF] a district court order that required the Tennessee Valley Authority [official website] to dig up and remove a large amount of coal ash at one of its power plants, holding that the Clean Water Act [materials] does not regulate pollutants that reach navigable waters through groundwater. The appeal concerned a US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee [official website] order requiring the TVA to "fully excavate" the coal ash ponds of its Gallatin Fossil Plant.
Registration will allow you to post comments on GreenwichTime.com and create a GreenwichTime.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Virginia's two Democratic senators are recommending a federal prosecutor and a magistrate judge to replace a conservative district judge in the Eastern District of Virginia.
A judge reinstated an oil and gas lease on land in northwestern Montana considered sacred to some tribes in the U.S. and Canada - a ruling that could test the depths of the Trump administration's support for the energy industry. President Barack Obama's Interior Department improperly canceled the nearly 10-square-mile lease adjacent to Glacier National Park in 2016, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C., said this week.
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Court on Monday blocked a lower court ruling [opinion, PDF] that expanded the types of documents voters could use to prove their identity for elections in North Dakota, siding with state officials over Native American tribal members. North Dakota's legislature passed a law [text, PDF] in 2017 that required voters to provide a valid form of identification to the proper election official before receiving a ballot.
While her party's leaders are plowing ahead with their support for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of the key swing votes, wants the sexual assault allegation to be taken seriously. "It's very important to take allegations of those who have come forward, to take them seriously and I think we need to go into this hearing with the view that we will listen to Dr. Ford's story, we will listen to Judge Kavanaugh's response and then we will weigh what we have heard," the Alaska Republican told a massive scrum of reporters.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh is being accused of sexual assault and therefore is claimed to be unfit for confirmation to the Supreme Court of The United States . How many times have we witnessed Democrats miraculously and implausibly, at the 11th hour, unearth a phalanx of women who just happen to have been assaulted, harassed or raped by a Republican their party opposes for election or an appointment, as in this instance, to the SCOTUS.
The Class Action Fairness Act permits removal of many class actions from state to federal court, but includes a "local controversy" exception that forbids removal where two-thirds or more of the proposed class resides in the state where the action is brought. In disputes over efforts to use CAFA to remove class actions, the residence of the class members often is difficult to assess.
The Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act and the Know the Lowest Price Act passed through voice vote Tuesday and are intended to help patients find out whether a prescription would cost less if they were to pay for it out of pocket rather than through their health plan. The first bill applies to private health insurance while the other applies to patients who are covered by Medicare, the government program for adults 65 and older and people with disabilities.