A Democratic lawmaker had a sharp critique for the Trump administration on Tuesday after President Donald Trump opted to back off plans to charge fees in the Strait of Hormuz.During a live segment with CNN anchor Boris Sanchez, Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) responded to Trump’s decision change after the Un…
The Trump administration is coming under fire for its response to the outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a foodborne illness that causes explosive diarrhea and has so far been documented in more than two dozen states.Public health officials still have not identified the source of the outbreak, which typica…
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Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) — currently running for re-election — pulled a “do you know who I am” on a Las Vegas police officer to get out of a ticket, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.In body camera footage obtained by the Review-Journal, a Metropolitan Police sergeant pulled over Lombardo’s F…
A civil rights lawsuit filed on Tuesday accuses White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller of orchestrating a deportation conspiracy with a group its own spokesperson allegedly called “a vigilante force.”The suit was filed in federal court in New York under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 — a Rec…
As the Trump administration announced a new round of sanctions on Cuba’s tourism ministry, energy companies, and other entities on Monday, four Democratic members of Congress returned from a trip to the island and described how the oil blockade the US has imposed there for nearly six months “is prod…
A former senior Homeland Security (DHS) official is warning Americans about President Donald Trump’s upcoming address on Thursday, drawing on firsthand experience from the first Trump administration to predict what the president intends to discuss.“The White House hastily manufactured a Big Lie in 2…
President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee Pentagon spending was confronted over the $3.2 billion in defense contracts tied to his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump since he took office.Acting Pentagon Comptroller Jules W. Hurst III faced the confrontation Tuesday at his Senate Armed Services Commi…
The Supreme Court’s just-completed term was so extreme that even its apparent wins for democracy can’t redeem it, according to civil rights litigator Sherrilyn Ifill, because the real story is how the justices reached the outcomesthe outcomes.Speaking on Slate’s Amicus podcast during the show’s annu…
ICE has suspended traffic stops after two recent fatal shootings in a “huge reversal” of its previous policy, CNN immigration correspondent Priscilla Alvarez reported Tuesday. The move comes after ICE fatally shot two men this week in Biddeford, Maine, and last week in Houston, Texas, both during ve…