National Public Radio’s Teri Gross, host of Fresh Air, declared on Tuesday that Breitbart News is “famous for fake news” and claimed, erroneously, that former Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon “created the alt-right.”
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, is offering faculty and students up to $10,000 to promote social justice messages in their research and curriculum.
President Donald Trump praised his administration’s effort to combat terrorism, citing the importance of the Middle East to stop funding extremist and terrorist groups.
President Donald Trump’s budget director Mick Mulveney reassured supporters that the White House would build a wall, previewing it to reporters at the White House press briefing.
Students from Cornell University hosted a protest to demand that the college provide funding to illegal immigrants.
Lawyers for Planned Parenthood filed an application for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction late Friday night asking the judge in the litigation over Medicaid cuts to prevent Texas from defunding Medicaid to the abortion provider. Officials in Texas took action after gruesome videos filmed at various Planned Parenthood facilities, including the mega-abortion facility in Houston, Texas were released.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the nation’s state-run media have condemned Congress’s approval of new high-level military talks between the United States and Taiwan. The rebuke follows a month of vocal dismay in Beijing over President-elect Donald Trump’s questioning of the “One China” policy, which denies Taiwan’s sovereignty.
The State of Texas gave Planned Parenthood final notice on Tuesday that it would no longer allow it to participate in the Medicaid program in the Lone Star State. The letter from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) said it was “not qualified to provide medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner.”
In April, the Obama Administration made a great show of moving $590 million in taxpayer funds from an account to fight Ebola over to an account for fighting the Zika threat.
The WWF – the world’s richest environmental lobby group – has announced that Britain should remain in the European Union. “The safer option for our wildlife and environment is for the UK to remain within the EU,” it says in a
Stephen Hawking and 150 other distinguished scientists – all fellows of the Royal Society – have written a letter to the (London) Times saying that if Britain leaves the European Union it would be a “disaster for UK science.” No it
Billionaire Donald Trump says it is “unwise” for newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan to fund President Barack Obama’s efforts to resettle Syrian refugees across America.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest consistently vows that President Obama would veto a bill from House Republicans that fully defunds Planned Parenthood. But he remained open to the idea that Obama might sign a bill that partially defunds the abortion corporation.
Governor Jerry Brown’s pet project, the $68-billion bullet train, is finding it difficult to attract any outside investors willing to contribute the vital funds needed to complete the high-speed rail project.
For the past week, President Obama and Senate Democrats have spent the past two weeks blasting Republicans after the House passed a bill which included two different proposals to defund Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Republican leaders in Congress, however, haven’t been as aggressive in their messaging strategy.
