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A new political action committee backed by a major New York hedge fund and Democratic politician turned cable news commentator Bakari Sellers plans to spend more than $1 million in a bid to oust progressive second-term Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib from the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections. “It’s flattering that billionaires who […]

Source: CNN Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, said on Twitter Thursday that billionaires aren’t the bad guys. Musk tweeted that it is “morally wrong & dumb” to use the word billionaire as a pejorative if that person is using their wealth to create products that make “millions of people happy.” [snip] Musk ran a […]

Source: Reuters By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Friday extended its streak of victories in jury trials against rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, securing a guilty verdict in its prosecution of a New Jersey man facing a felony charge. After less than a day of deliberation, a […]

Ahead of next week’s 50th annual United Nations Stockholm environmental conference in Sweden, a global coalition of parents, grandparents, and caregivers on Friday joined thousands of worldwide advocates calling on countries to back a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to “give children a liveable planet.” “Our children deserve to live in a world that is safe. […]

A child crosses under caution tape at Robb Elementary School.Brandon Bell/Getty Images Law enforcement noted they made the “wrong decision” when they didn’t confront the gunman sooner. Three days after an 18-year-old gunman fatally shot 19 students and two teachers and wounded 17 others in a fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, […]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) spoke at the National Rifle Association convention in Houston on Friday ― three days after a gunman killed 19 elementary school students and two teachers in his state ― to argue that guns were not to blame for the latest mass shooting. “It’s a lot easier to moralize about guns and […]

CLAIM: A compilation of screenshots shows that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has tweeted identical messages after 12 mass shootings in the U.S. from 2012 to 2022. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The image begins with a real message Cruz tweeted following Tuesday’s shooting at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, but the following 11 tweets have been fabricated […]

Source: Politico The Justice Department has released portions of a previously unseen alternative version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on ties between former President Donald Trump and Russia. However, the 37-page report prepared at the direction of Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann and released this week under the Freedom of Information Act is heavily redacted. […]

Source: New York Times In the latest legal blow to Donald J. Trump, a federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit the former president filed that sought to halt the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices.The ruling, in federal court in Albany, was Mr. Trump’s second defeat related to the investigation […]

Election worker Monica Ging processes a ballot for Pennsylvania’s primaries this month at the Chester County Voter Services office in West Chester, Pa. Matt Slocum/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Slocum/AP Election worker Monica Ging processes a ballot for Pennsylvania’s primaries this month at the Chester County Voter Services office in West Chester, Pa. Matt […]

I drove my daughter to school today. She thanked me for the ride, I wished her a good day, and she toddled off to the middle school doors. Her khaki pants needed ironing, her pony tail was coming loose and she hefted her backpack onto her shoulder like a sack of potatoes. The gun industry […]

Immediately after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the state’s Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, argued that the best way to prevent such a horror from happening again would have been to arm the school’s staff. “We can’t stop bad people from doing bad things. We can potentially arm and prepare and […]

A Clackamas County election worker shows barcodes on ballots that are bad (top) and good on May 19 in Oregon City, Ore. Ballots with blurry barcodes that can’t be read by vote-counting machines delayed results in a key U.S. House race. Gillian Flaccus/AP hide caption toggle caption Gillian Flaccus/AP A Clackamas County election worker shows […]

President Joe Biden is preparing to announce his plan to forgive up to $10,000 of student debt for those who qualify based on their income, The Washington Post reported, citing three sources. White House staffers have been preparing drafts but are waiting on the president to decide, according to CNN. The policy is expected to […]