Julián Castro, former mayor of San Antonio and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary under President Barack Obama, formally declared on Saturday that he is seeking the Democratic nomination for president in the 2020 contest—an announcement that’s been expected since he launched an exploratory committee last month. In a Saturday morning speech at San Antonio’s…
With a former coal lobbyist at the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the past six months—and a self-described “advocate” against the agency’s work prior to that—the EPA has drastically reduced the fines it’s levied against pollution-causing industries and companies since President Donald Trump took office. The Washington Post reported Thursday that under…
Displaying what one United Nations human rights expert called “arrogance” considering international outcry over the Trump administration’s record of human rights violations, the State Department has refused to cooperate with U.N. investigators regarding their complaints about such issues for the better part of a year. As the Guardian reported Friday, the administration has “quietly and…
After Josh Alexander and Homicide were announced for this October’s edition of Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport, the show got its first female competitor announced Saturday night as current Impact Wrestling Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo has been added to the show. After being released from WWE during the April pandemic cuts, Purrazzo appeared on Impact a month…
Click:Lighting The Republican Party of Virginia in a new campaign on social media declared that Democrat Leslie Cockburn, a House candidate running against Republican Denver Riggleman, “hates America.” The organization released an attack ad against Cockburn on its official social media accounts Friday. “Leslie Cockburn: hates veterans, hates ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], hates Israel,” the…
Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisRand Paul introduces bill to end no-knock warrants The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook McEnany says Juneteenth is a very ‘meaningful’ day to Trump MORE (D-Calif.) held a campaign rally in Greenville, S.C., to get voters motivated for the upcoming midterm elections among rumors of a potential…
DAVIE, Fla. — Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantisRonald Dion DeSantisGOP tentatively decides on Jacksonville for site of convention DeSantis pushing to host Republican National Convention in Florida Florida bars and theaters to reopen starting Friday, DeSantis says MORE engaged in a volatile and often angry war of words in Florida on Wednesday, ending the…
President Donald Trump’s prediction that he’ll be taken to court over his national emergency declaration proved correct on Friday afternoon, with the ACLU announcing it would file one of several lawsuits against the Trump administration over the “blatantly illegal” move. The organization noted in a statement that the president openly admitted the national emergency declaration,…
NASA scientists confirmed in a report Wednesday that 2018 was one of the hottest years on record, continuing what the New York Times called “an unmistakable warming trend.” Last year was the fourth-warmest on record since scientists began recording such data 140 years ago, according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). This finding…
Chelsea Manning’s advocates are decrying what they they see as the Trump administration trying “to punish an outspoken whistleblower” following the revelation that she’d been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury. Manning, whose 35-year sentence for exposing U.S. war crimes was commuted in 2017, said she plans on fighting the subpoena. “Chelsea gave voluminous…