The total taxpayer cost for Trump's Fourth of July extravaganza in DC tomorrow is unknown, but it's going to be expensive—and $2.5 million of the bill will be covered by funds diverted from National Park improvement. Iran will "take the next step"
This month marks the longest US economic expansion on record, and the longest stretch of monthly job gains. Most of those jobs are in the service sector, doing little to lift communities suffering lost manufacturing jobs. A good headline to summarize the weekend in diplomacy: “Trump Helps Bring Shunned Authoritarians
Following a meeting with Xi at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Trump announces trade negotiations with China are "back on track." Trump tweets an invitation to Kim Jong-un to meet up and shake hands at the DMZ tomorrow. Obama birthers are going after Kamala Harris, questioning
Among the takeaways from the first night of Democratic debates: Castro had a breakout evening, Warren stayed the course, and de Blasio surprised. Here's what to watch for in tonight's debate. In a pair of rulings, the Supreme Court blocks adding a citizenship question to the
Democrats pass a $4.5 billion emergency border aid bill tied to efforts to oppose Trump's broader immigration agenda. Republicans in the Senate have a different plan in mind. Robert Mueller will testify before Congress on July 17. Two neighborhoods in Chicago, Streeterville and Englewood, have the most
Hundreds of migrant children are being moved from a Border Patrol station in Texas after lawyers visited last week and discovered the squalid conditions, where detainees aren’t provided with adequate soap, toothpaste, and other essentials. "For God's sake, they're kids, man." Town residents
Tomorrow's ICE raids in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco are intended to detain up to 2,000 families, targeting people "who have received final orders of deportation." "We've never had anything like this
Trump tweets that he called off a retaliatory strike on Iran with 10 minutes to go after learning it could kill 150 people, which he said wouldn't be "proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone." It was unclear why Mr. Trump would have been getting information
It’s World Refugee Day. Here’s the story of a baby separated from his father while both of them tried to apply for asylum in the United States. The number of people displaced worldwide by war, persecution, and violence in 2018 would amount to the world’s 20th most
In a victory for trans rights, the 9th Circuit vacated a lower court's precarious decision that Trump's trans military ban is unconstitutional, and has ruled the ban discriminates against transgender people. "The past few weeks have witnessed a nasty internecine fight among religious conservatives about
