Three months after Parkland, America grieves yet another massacre of children by a young man with guns. This year has seen an average of slightly more than one school shooting per week in the United States. About 51 million households in the US don't earn enough to afford
A new White House proposal would prevent Planned Parenthood and other organizations from receiving federal money while providing abortions, even if those services use private funding. After one death and more than 170 known incidents of illness, the CDC says romaine lettuce is now safe to eat. A year into
“Gaza buries its dead as death toll from protests at fence with Israel rises to at least 60.” Are we to assume that the protests—and not the Israeli military—killed these people? American media avoids saying who it was that killed more than 60 Palestinians on Monday. In Pennsylvania,
Yesterday, North Korea seemed to take an abrupt about-face, canceling a meeting with South Korea and threatening to call off the Trump-Kim summit—possibly over US-South Korea military drills or diplomatic disrespect around its nuclear program. The Senate votes today to repeal the net neutrality changes that
Funerals begin in Gaza after 58 Palestinians were killed and 2,700 were injured in conflict with Israeli forces during the controversial inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem. Israel and the White House pin the violence on Hamas, and refuse to bear responsibility for an outcome that was obvious
By maligning McCain, the Trump White House reached a new low for political debasement this week. Worth remembering with all this talk of torture: Christopher Hitchens got waterboarded so you’d know what it’s like. Liuba Grechen Shirley is the first female candidate to get federal permission to use
Senator John McCain—recently mocked by a White House official, not to mention grossly insulted on TV by a Fox News analyst—is fighting Trump with his dying breaths. Europe’s biggest economies take steps to protect their commercial and political interests in Iran. Here are five scenarios for what
President Trump thanks Kim Jong Un for releasing three Americans detained in North Korea. Here's how it happened and what it means. Michael Cohen made more than $2 million "working as a Trump whisperer." He's not the only one. A black student at Yale
Normally silent about the doings of the White House, Obama responds to Trump’s plan to pull out of the Iran deal. Trump’s plan to abandon the nuclear deal, with no alternative policy in place, puts “US diplomacy on a collision course with some of Washington's closest
European diplomats, despite recent talks, expect Trump to say he intends to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal this afternoon. If Trump moves to re-impose sanctions, look for a brief preservation of the deal between Iran and Europe, and then possibly a resumption of nuclear work. A good
