The top prosecutors of two major American cities issued a preemptive warning to both Donald Trump and federal agents Friday, pledging in an op-ed to prosecute Trump’s troops if they violate the law in their cities.
As Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr prepare to unleash more federal forces in Seattle, Chicago, and other large cities in the U.S., protest crowds are still swelling in Portland—and there are some new faces in the crowd. At least one of them was willing to talk to MSNBC, declaring: “As of last night, I am no longer a Trump supporter.”
Watch as the unnamed woman explains why she can no longer support Trump.
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley argued that the hard cap on religious gatherings was an unconstitutional violation of its parishioners’ First Amendment rights.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is postponing its furlough of more than half of its workforce for nearly another month, Senate Appropriations Vice Chair Patrick Leahy said on Friday. The agency had been set to furlough 13,000 of its 20,000 employees on Aug. 3 until revised estimates showed the agency actually had enough funds to continue work for several more weeks, his office said.
One Twitter user noted “we’re now at a point where Paw Patrol has to fact check the White House.
“It hands the appearance of victory to the wrong people,” a former board member said.
Oregon’s attorney general had sued the Trump administration, alleging federal agents arrested anti-racism protesters without probable cause.
Anyone rushing the reopening of schools needs to consider the emotional cost to kids of infecting family and friends.
Unless Congress or the administration intervenes, monthly loan payments paused due to the pandemic will come due for tens of millions of borrowers.
Instead of wearing all-day smiles, I tell people to fix their masks.
It helped the wrong businesses, saved too few jobs, and failed to stem an economic nightmare with no end in sight.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks were an eloquent dismantling of the playbook men have used to keep women in their place for centuries.
Summer blockbusters have started to look the same in recent years: iterations from the same franchises, with comic-book superheroes leading the pack again and again. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 summer-movie season never really began. With Hollywood’s biggest films delayed for months, or indefinitely, I’ve assembled a list of unconventional and underrated movies with a much more eclectic range of heroes to cheer for or be thrilled by.
The project began, in one telling, five years ago, in a castle that overlooks the Bavarian Alps, where three dozen of the world’s most successful and rivalrous earth scientists came together for a week of cloistered meetings.They gathered, in part, out of embarrassment. For the past four decades, their field—the study of Earth’s natural phenomena, including its land, ocean, and climate—had boomed.
I reached the Canadian border on the Fourth of July.Usually, the Thousand Islands crossing station between New York and Ontario is busy on summer weekends. Not this time. Eight of the nine lanes were closed, and only one car waited ahead of me in the single open queue.Despite the light traffic, I waited a while for my inspection—and when it was my turn, the car behind me waited a while too.
Parenting advice on coming out, single moms, and famous parents.
In our series “Behind the Byline,” we’re chatting with Atlantic staffers to learn more about who they are and how they approach their work. Hannah Giorgis is a staff writer who covers culture.This interview has been lightly edited and condensed.Nesima Aberra: How have you been lately?Hannah Giorgis: Today, I am in better spirits than I have been. I think some of that has been that I feel a little clearer on some of my work that didn’t feel granular to me.
Memoirs by politicians and their family members are in a strange genre that must balance compelling storytelling with personal aims. Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough is better written than most, Megan Garber argues. (Mary has a master’s degree in comparative literature.
As millions of people in the U.S. lose work and face eviction due to the economic crisis brought on by the pandemic, the 1% have seen a massive increase to their wealth, with Amazon founder and world’s richest person Jeff Bezos recently adding an estimated $13 billion to his net worth in a single day. World-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky says the corporate windfall is yet more evidence that the U.S. is run “essentially by the corporate sector” for its own profits.
Is the United States being run by a madman? “What can you say about a person who, before speaking before an adoring crowd, raises his eyes to heaven and calls himself the chosen one?” says Noam Chomsky, responding to President Trump’s boast that he aced a mental acuity test.
“President Trump is desperate,” says world-renowned dissident Professor Noam Chomsky in an extended interview that begins with President Trump’s vow to send a “surge” of federal agents into major Democrat-run cities across the United States. “His entire attention is this one issue on his mind: that’s the election. He has to cover up for the fact he is personally responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans.
We bring you Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s full address from the floor of the House when she excoriated her Republican colleague, Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida, after he verbally attacked her earlier in the week on the steps of the Capitol and used a sexist slur overheard by a reporter, calling her a “fucking bitch,” then issued a non-apology from the House floor. “My mother got to see Mr.
He berates owners and workers for the most inconsequential reasons, and some places have lost business as a result.
The GOP tried and failed to do its homework the night before it was due.
Too few materials, too many coronavirus outbreaks, and a never-ending canister shortage.
Guess what happens if the government takes away all the aid it’s been sending people.
The announcements come a day after President Donald Trump threw his support behind facial coverings to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert said he had last spoken with the president late last week.
