Correction: Florida-Puerto Ricans story
In a story June 30 about Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees, The Associated Press reported erroneously that about 2,000 Puerto Ricans are using federal housing assistance vouchers to stay at Florida hotels.
Category Archives: US News
Supreme Court nomination will put red-state Democrats in even bigger campaign quandary
Red-state Democrats seeking re-election this fall were already facing the difficult task of navigating between their own virulently anti- Trump national party and the Republican-leaning voters needed to win back home. But that narrow path has become even more of a tightrope now that incumbents will be asked to take sides on the president's impending Supreme Court nomination.
US tourist dead after tour boat explodes in the Bahamas
An American tourist was killed and several other people were injured when a tour boat exploded in an exclusive district of the Bahamas, officials said. The watercraft was carrying 12 passengers - including 10 American tourists and two Bahamians - off the exclusive island of Exuma Saturday morning when there was an explosion aboard and the boat burst into flames, according to the US Coast Guard and local reports.
Protesters pack Capitol Square to fight Trump immigration policy
Hundreds of people gathered at the Capitol Square in Richmond to protest the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy toward undocumented immigrants, prompting the separation of thousands of children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to CBS 6. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who attended the rally, said the demonstrations are a way of showing the Trump administration that people do not approve of the family separation policy. "And bluntly, the president thought he could separate kids form their parents and the American public wouldn't care.
Report: Barrett Never Suggested Roe v. Wade Was ‘Erroneous Decision’
Supreme Court candidate Amy Coney Barrett never suggested the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision was an "erroneous decision" as the Los Angeles Times claimed in an article late last week, The National Review's Ed Whelan writes.
Donald Trump To The Left: ‘Better Take It Easy’
There isn't much more vomit-inducing than the slavishly starry-eyed devotional that passes for an interview of Donald Trump by Maria "Money Honey" Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures . I don't think Kim Jong Un or Vladimir Putin could expect a better propaganda push for their most excellent leadership.
Judge delays aid deadline for displaced Puerto Ricans
Citing "deficiencies" in federal assistance to Puerto Rican evacuees, a judge ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to extend the temporary hotel voucher program. Hundreds of displaced families in Florida, and nearly 1,700 across the country, could benefit from the temporary court order.
Still More Reader Photos From Demonstrations
From meander: A big crowd in San Francisco. The march took us from Dolores Park in the Mission District to Civic Center.
Supreme Court Defeat for Unions Upends a Liberal Money Base
The Supreme Court decision striking down mandatory union fees for government workers was not only a blow to unions. It will also hit hard at a vast network of groups dedicated to advancing liberal policies and candidates.
They ‘listen when it’s Amazon.’ Second headquarters race revives transit, education projects
SAN FRANCISCO By definition, 19 cities on Amazon's list of potential homes for its second headquarters won't make the cut. But even if they don't win the golden ticket up to 50,000 tech jobs and a $5 billion investment Amazon may be leaving its stamp.
Family separation highlights immigration in Arizona midterms
The outrage sparked by the sights, sounds and stories of children separated from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border underscores the outsized role immigration will play in the midterms in Arizona. On all sides of the political spectrum, campaigns are emphasizing immigration policies with would-be voters as Democrats push to make gains in traditionally conservative Arizona, where more than 1 in 8 residents is an immigrant.
The Latest: Agency plans to review all migrant kids’ cases
The small gro... . In this Wednesday, June 27, 2018, photo, a small group of stay-at-home mothers, with children at their sides, work to organize an immigration rally in Portland, Ore.
Sinclair Broadcast Group
In April, America's journalistic class sounded the alarm at the alleged totalitarian menace of a local TV news syndicate, the Sinclair Broadcast Group, beaming out the same fake-news-is-bad-for-democracy promotional message to all its markets. Many of the sentiments in that advertorial were indistinguishable from recent campaigns by The Washington Post and The New Yorker , but the Sinclair journos reading the script did appear less than thrilled with the assignment.
Trump: I ‘probably won’t’ ask Supreme Court nominees about Roe v….
President Donald Trump said he "probably won't" ask potential Supreme Court nominees about whether they would overturn Roe v. Wade.
Take Your Pills
When Eben Britton received a prescription for Adderall along with a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , the former NFL player's wife says in the Netflix documentary Take Your Pills , she believed he had "a medical issue that was being treated." But when she and her friends used Adderall as a study aid in college, "I looked at it basically as abuse."
Vietnamese refugees who got a warm welcome in US puzzle at family separations, harsh talk
As a refugee, Lynn Le landed at Camp Pendleton among thousands of mothers and fathers clutching their children, desperately searching for a sign that at last they would be safe in America, far from Communist persecution at the end of the Vietnam War. Her father, Phong Le, held her close to his side.
Jordan Peele’s ‘Fake Obama’
Comedian and Academy Award winner Jordan Peele in April released a video that seemed to portray Barack Obama calling President Donald Trump "a total and complete dipshit." It was created by new software that allows for the generation of a novel variant of realistic fake news.
Nancy
In its glory days, when it was written and drawn by Ernie Bushmiller, Nancy walked the fine line that separates genius from idiocy. The newspaper comic was as inane as a dad joke and as beguiling as a Zen koan ; the best path to enjoying it, and perhaps to attaining enlightenment, lay in embracing the fact that you weren't ever sure whether it was the smartest or stupidest thing in the paper.
To Change the Church
There are roughly 1.28 billion Roman Catholics in the world. Of those, some probably do not know their Church says getting divorced and remarried without annulment counts as adultery.
Chappaquiddick
Many expected Chappaquiddick to be right-wing propaganda. After all, why make a feature-length film about what happened that 1969 night when Sen. Edward Kennedy drove a car off a bridge, resulting in the death of passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, if not to score political points? But Chappaquiddick tells a story that's not about policy, left or right, but about glamour and the often brutal assertion of privilege and power.