Elena Kagan on “taking big questions and making them small”
On Sept. 12 Justice Elena Kagan spoke at Hannah Senesh Community Day School in Brooklyn, interviewed by journalist Dahlia Lithwick.
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Food aid matters to thousands of Utah households
More than 10 percent of Utahns are struggling with food insecurity , or limited or uncertain access to enough food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program makes a difference for thousands of Utah households, ensuring they have money for food and room in their budget to afford rent and other basic needs.
Thursday hearing for Kavanaugh accuser stuck on last details
Plans to hold a high-stakes hearing next week with testimony from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, teetered with uncertainty Sunday as a Senate panel scrambled to resolve potentially make-or-break details, such as potential witnesses who could corroborate her decades-old sexual assault claim. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said lawyers for Ford are contesting two GOP conditions of the proposed 10 a.m. Thursday hearing - that Ford and Kavanaugh will be the only witnesses and that an independent counsel will ask the questions.
Top Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin says Ford a deserves a fair hearinga
A top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault is "a credible witness" who has been subject to death threats since coming forward with her allegation. "I think Dr. Ford has come forward understanding what she was going to face," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said of Christine Blasey Ford to ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on This Week Sunday.
The Freedom Flights: How Cuba’s Fidel Castro rid himself of dissidents
Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat tried not to squirm as he sat in a bunker in Havana's airport in 1971, waiting to board the DC-3 that would jet him and other Cuban nationals off the island. He was tense, as they all were.
OP-ED: We need to hear from Christine Blasey Ford
In amoral political terms, Senate Republicans have been skillful in handling Christine Blasey's Ford's allegations that the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school.
China sends hospital ship to deal with Venezuelan crisis
A Chinese navy hospital ship docked near Venezuela's capital on Saturday as the OPEC nation's deepening economic crisis garners the attention of the U.S. and other world powers. Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino was on hand to greet the People's Liberation Army Navy's ship, the Peace Ark, on its latest stop as part of the 11-nation "Mission Harmony" tour announced in June.
Congress could make FAA boost size of seats, legroom on airplanes
WASHINGTON The Federal Aviation Administration would be required to set new minimum requirements for seats on airplanes under legislation to be considered in the House this week, possibly giving passengers a break from ever-shrinking legroom and cramped quarters. The regulation of seat width and legroom is part of a five-year extension of federal aviation programs announced early Saturday by Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate committees that oversee the nation's air travel.
Trump supporters want Kavanaugh accuser to testify. They’re sure he will be cleared.
Republican lawmakers insist they will vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court even if his accuser refuses to testify this week about her sexual assault allegation. But surprisingly, some of President Donald Trump's most passionate supporters want the Senate - and all of America - to hear from Christine Blasey Ford before lawmakers vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation to the nation's highest court.
‘Incredibly frustrated’: Inside the GOP’s effort to save Kavanaugh amid assault allegation
Just as he did several weeks ago to prepare for his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh was back inside a room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building - again facing questioners readying him for a high-stakes appearance in the Senate. This time, the questions were much different.
Cancer research money abused for jailing immigrant children
The Department of Health and Human Services is going to take money from cancer research and use it for detaining immigrant children . Cenk Uygur, Brett Erlich, Michaela Watkins, and Aida Rodriguez, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
Theodore Decker: Devastating storms come fast, bureaucratic response slow Updated at
In the fall of 1991, as a reporting intern with the Gloucester Daily Times in coastal Massachusetts, I helped to cover what the world knows now as "The Perfect Storm." For weeks afterward, the paper documented the destruction.
Florida Lawmakers Deaf to the Needs of Hearing Aid Users
It wouldn't make much sense to require employees at Best Buy to understand the inner workings of vacuum tubes. Or to mandate that Apple Store staffers be fluent in the ancient language of telephone switchboards.
Andrew Gillum announces plan to improve Florida’s education
Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Andrew Gillum have different ideas on what they'd do as governor to improve education in Florida. One thing they agree on is that teachers should have higher pay.
Hicks column: Selective history lessons are little more than Propaganda 101
Robert Smalls was a former slave who went on to become a state lawmaker and congressman during the Reconstruction period. His legacy includes the creation of South Carolina's public school system.
Joe Kennedy’s tweet on sexual assault insensitivity is a bit much
Should any member of the Kennedy family be lecturing any other politician about insensitivity to the rape and abuse of females? On Friday morning, the president tweeted out, re: the Kavanaugh-Ford contretemps: "I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time and place!" "2 of 3 sexual assaults are never reported.
Letter: Hirono stands up for the underdog
Our U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono has been in the news often lately, interviewed about our errant president and more recently about Judge Brett Kavanaugh, accused of sexual assault. Read More
Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Process Is a Maelstrom of Insincerities
Judge Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in by committee chairman Chuck Grassley at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, September 4, 2018. he current era of scorched-earth politics began five years after there was, according to Christine Blasey Ford, in 1982, an alcohol-soaked party in a suburban Washington home.
No debating this fact: Tran, Chalifoux Zephir trade barbs
STATE SEN. DEAN TRAN may not want to participate in a traditional debate with his Democratic challenger, but it appears one is happening online in slow motion.
Dems see Kavanaugh saga as playing to their advantage
House Democrats increasingly see the controversy swirling around Brett Kavanaugh as a political boon just weeks ahead of the midterm elections - a saga they think will energize female voters already put off by Donald John Trump Sunday shows preview: Trump sells U.N. reorganizing and Kavanaugh allegations dominate Ex-Trump staffer out at CNN amid "false and defamatory accusations" Democrats opposed to Pelosi lack challenger to topple her MORE Senate Republicans are pressing for a confirmation vote on Kavanaugh, Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, despite Christine Blasey Ford's allegations that he sexually assaulted her when both were teenagers decades ago. Kavanaugh has fiercely denied the allegations.