In the wake of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, the Maine Republican senator said the next Supreme Court justice should be picked by the winner of November’s presidential election.
A number of anti-abortion politicians and activist groups see their goal of ending nationwide abortion rights in sight.
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman previously has said such vacancies should not be filled during a presidential election year.
Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in London could have far-reaching consequences for press freedoms. The WikiLeaks founder faces an ever-evolving array of espionage and hacking charges related to the release of diplomatic cables that revealed war crimes committed by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Assange faces almost certain conviction, if extradited, and 175 years in prison.
He clearly does not care about being called a hypocrite about the Supreme Court.
The iconic Supreme Court justice told her granddaughter her “most fervent wish” just days before she died.
Schumer’s statement is verbatim what Mitch McConnell said four years ago when Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016.
Ginsburg, who was once passed over for a clerkship on the Supreme Court because of her gender, was the second woman to sit on the nation’s highest court.
Trump’s ambassador pick wants to pull the U.S. out of Afghanistan. The failure to confirm him shows how far Republicans are from being anti-war.
This week President Trump described the work of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, who died in 2010, as “propaganda” meant to “make students ashamed of their own history.” But Zinn believed the opposite, that teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda and unexamined received wisdom. We air excerpts from a 2009 interview with Zinn in which he explained his approach to education.
As climate-fueled wildfires continue to ravage the West, the Trump administration has tapped a well-known climate change denier for a top position at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. University of Delaware professor David Legates has written papers calling for more fossil fuel emissions and has had his work supported by the Robert Mercer-funded Heartland Institute and Koch Industries, as well as major gas companies.
As the official United States death toll from COVID-19 approaches 200,000 people, we speak with infectious disease expert Dr. Monica Gandhi, who says President Trump’s refusal to promote face masks has made the pandemic much worse. “Masks are a pillar of pandemic control. They are incredibly important,” says Dr. Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as a division head at San Francisco General Hospital.
As the Trump administration celebrates deals establishing diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, we speak with Palestinian American legal scholar Noura Erakat, who says Trump’s “peace” agreements are a sham.
“Dana, have you been able to read the book? The evidence is overwhelming,” the “Rage” author told Dana Perino.
The Republican and former college football coach stumbled when asked his position on the landmark 1965 civil rights law.
More and more, the president claims the only way Democrats can win is by cheating – even as he seeks to delegitimize mail voting.
Becki Falwell told the operator that her husband had cuts on his face from falling after he’d been drinking.
President Donald Trump has had a “flat out disregard for human life” during the COVID-19 pandemic, Olivia Troye said.
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Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in London could have far-reaching consequences for press freedoms. The WikiLeaks founder faces an ever-evolving array of espionage and hacking charges related to the release of diplomatic cables that revealed war crimes committed by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Assange faces almost certain conviction, if extradited, and 175 years in prison.
We get an update on the massive fire at the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, which has left 13,000 refugees and migrants from Afghanistan, African countries and Syria without access to shelter, food or sanitation. The fire has raised concerns about a coronavirus outbreak and comes as migrants protest their living conditions during the pandemic.
The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is deepening amid the pandemic and cuts to international aid from the United States and its allies, leaving millions of Yemenis facing famine after years of a brutal U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing campaign that has devastated the country. CNN’s senior international correspondent Nima Elbagir says what is happening in Yemen is not a natural disaster but a “man-made catastrophe” directly tied to U.S. policies.
The online giant Amazon has made an extraordinary amount of money during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many people shelter at home and shop online. A new Public Citizen report documents how Amazon set prices for essential products during the crisis at levels that would violate price gouging laws in many states, and marked up some products by as much as 1,000%. “This is an ongoing thing. They are doing this currently.
The reports add to concern that the attorney general is politicizing the Justice Department amid Trump’s efforts to cast himself as a “law and order” president.
Tony Schwartz said that in all the years he’s known Trump, he’s not once felt more frightened than he does now.
The president continues to politicize the virus and misrepresent the facts.
The Democratic presidential nominee whispered into his mic: “I’m not the president. He’s the president.
“Are you high?” one person asked the president.
As the Trump administration celebrates deals establishing diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, we speak with Palestinian American legal scholar Noura Erakat, who says Trump’s “peace” agreements are a sham.
Journalist and author Mychal Denzel Smith joins us for a wide-ranging discussion on the uprising against racist police, the upcoming presidential election and why he says a Biden win won’t cure his Trump-era depression, and his new book, “Stakes Is High: Life after the American Dream.