Opinion - The White House doesn’t need a big, beautiful ballroom
As an environmental activist in California, I joined in several campaigns to save imperiled places, including: “Save Lake Tahoe” and “Save the Bay.” In 1972, I took a l...
Opinion - Are you ready for ‘Hawley Bucks’?
There is no public policy idea so dumb to preclude some member of Congress from whole-heartedly supporting it. And the latest example is a proposal to hand out billions...
Shaheen compels answers on Trump deportations to Costa Rica, Panama
The ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is forcing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to transmit to Congress agreements reached with the governments o...
Trump's politically motivated sanctions against Brazil strain relations among old allies
SAO PAULO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has made clear who his new Latin America priority is: former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a personal and political a...
Trump says GOP ‘entitled’ to 5 more House seats in Texas
President Trump argued Republicans are “entitled” to pick up five additional House seats in Texas as state GOP officials try to advance a new congressional district map...
Maddow Blog | Most Americans are stressed about grocery prices, despite Trump’s weird falsehoods
On a nearly daily basis, Donald Trump boasts that gas prices have fallen below $2 per gallon in several states. As the president’s lies go, this one is pretty lazy — it...
DOJ admits how little Epstein-Maxwell grand jury transcripts reveal in latest court filing
When the Trump Justice Department moved to unseal grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases, it seemed the transcripts wouldn’t reveal m...
Weather Service is now hiring back hundreds of positions that got cut in the DOGE chaos
The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by Department of Go...
School Staff Fear Homeless Students Would Be Hurt by Trump Block Grant Plan
This article was originally published in Chalkbeat.Trump wants to put money for homeless kids into a block grant. School staff are wary.Federal funding for homeless stu...
Trump trails Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders in favorability polling: Gallup
President Trump trails progressive stalwarts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in favorability polling, according to a new survey c...