White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci waged war with President Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, Thursday morning over leaks from the White House to journalists. But Scaramucci’s fight against leaks appears to be at least partially focused on public information, and on the perfectly legal transfer of information from officials to the press. After…
Though there is much more to learn about the lone victim—identified by family and friends on Sunday as Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal from Virginia—who lost her life in the vicious attack in Charlottesville on a group of anti-racist demonstrators, the last public message she left behind offered at least a semblance of what inspired…
With at least five reported dead after Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Gulf Coast earlier this weekend, Texas residents are expected to continue battling “unprecedented” rainfall and life-threatening, “catastrophic” flooding for several days. “An extremely serious situation with few if any close parallels in modern U.S. hurricane history is taking shape over the southeast third…
As much of the media’s attention shifted to Hurricane Irma’s impact on Florida, the affected Caribbean islands were left cut off from aid in recent days as officials assessed the storm’s damage. The region’s isolation gave way to desperation as residents scavenged for food and drinking water—leading to media reports of “looting.” But critics questioned…
Ahead of the COP23 climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany next week, an annual bulletin released on Monday revealed that last year, the average global concentration of carbon dioxide surged at a record-breaking pace to the highest level in approximately 3 million years, renewing scientists’ concerns that more action is needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions….
Click:korean novel Poland on Friday set a deadline of 2049 to abandon coal mining — part of a green shift that’s delighting many in Brussels. Over the past few months, the Polish Climate Ministry has rolled out a 10 billion złoty (€2.2 billion) green investment package and a deal to boost the country’s offshore wind…
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) outraised its Democratic counterpart, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in January. The NRCC on Tuesday announced it took in $10.1 million in January, while the DCCC reported it raised $9.35 million in the same time. “With the advent of tax reform, Republicans are on offense as we start 2018,” NRCC Communications Director…
Majority Forward, the nonprofit arm of the Democratic Senate Majority PAC, is going on offense with a digital ad campaign in 10 states as it seeks to frame the GOP’s tax plan as a handout to corporations and the wealthy. The ad campaign, which was provided first to The Hill, signals how Democrats plan to…
This post will updated throughout the day… See below for pictures and dispatches from scheduled games… #TakeAKnee Tweets Sunday is game day for the National Football League and the hashtag #TakeaKnee is going viral as people across the nation see how players and teams respond to calls by President Donald Trump to punish players who…
The Republican Party’s attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may have failed, but that hasn’t stopped President Donald Trump from doing everything in his power to sabotage the law—including personally intervening to ensure that individual states don’t take steps to bolster health insurance markets and lower premiums. “Shameful healthcare sabotage—more hypocrisy from the…