Over 20 press freedom groups have slammed Congress for its subpoena of journalist Seth Harp, author of a recent book that exposed crimes within the most secretive ranks of the military, saying that Congress is trying to chill inquiry into the military as the Trump administration threatens numerous countries. Last week, the House Oversight Committee voted to issue a subpoena for Harp after he…
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Minnesota officials said Thursday that the Trump administration has barred them from assisting in the investigation into an ICE agent’s killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, marking an extreme step in the GOP’s seeming all-out efforts to prevent accountability for the shooter. The head of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the state’s investigations agency…
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North Carolina voters have chosen Democrats in three straight elections for governor; the state’s Republican-led legislature has countered by siphoning off some of the powers that traditionally came with the job. These power grabs have had a profound effect on both democracy in the state and on the everyday lives of North Carolina residents, Democrats argue. The changes are “weakening…
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The Trump administration has reportedly frozen federal child care subsidies for every state in the U.S. after a right-wing social media influencer made a debunked video purporting to show fraud in Somali-run daycares in Minnesota this week. On Tuesday, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Jim O’Neill said that the agency had frozen all child care payments to Minnesota following…
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As major anti-transgender bills loom and Congress prepares to vote on sweeping restrictions on transgender healthcare over the next two days, Representative Sarah McBride gathered with reporters outside the Capitol to denounce what she called the Republican Party’s “obsession” with transgender people. McBride was joined by Representatives Ocasio-Cortez and Johnson for the press scrum…
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New polling finds that a comfortable majority of Republicans say they would rather the U.S. fund health care programs at home than continue to send billions to Israel, in the latest show of the increasing divide between the public and U.S. political leaders on Israel policy. Polling conducted last month asked whether or not Republican voters believe that the U.S. should give Israel funding…
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