On Thursday, a federal court judge blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order, which was essentially an effort to enact his voting-rights restrictions without legislation. Trump’s executive order mandates the U.S. Post Office maintain a list of Americans aged 18 or older to “confirm to be Unit…
During a late June visit to the Middle East on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with leaders of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait to discuss foreign policy matters — including President Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement with Iran. Trump’s son-in-law Michael Boulos was sitt…
Legal analysts and scholars are lashing out at the U.S. Supreme Court conservatives after another round of decisions.Taking to social media on Thursday morning, commentators trashed one ruling in particular: President Donald Trump’s decision to block asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. The cas…
On Wednesday, representatives of NATO met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in an effort to bolster his reluctant commitment to the alliance. According to reporting by the iPaper, they brought “visual aids” that had less to do with pleading their case than with stoking “Trump’s ego.” As…
On Wednesday, a statement by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy prompted a prominent retired military prosecutor to reveal his unvarnished thoughts about what he called the “vulgar” “MAGA cult.”This criticism flared after Duffy spoke at the National Mall as part of the country’s 250th birthday cele…
After Box Elder County Commissioner Lee Perry lost a GOP primary race in Utah on Tuesday, he blamed a vote in favor of a data center for the loss. Perry’s “yes” vote, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, cleared the way for a massive data center in the area. Perry, in his concession, said, “Do I thin…
When Donald Trump declared, during his 2016 campaign, “I love the poorly educated,” that line underscored his claim to represent working-class voters. And a decade later, Trump — despite being a billionaire — and his allies continue to depict MAGA as a movement designed to make the working class mor…
A Colorado-based storm chaser was visited by the FBI after cracking a joke about introducing algae spores into the “paint” a Virginia company used on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Patrick Pineda, a photographer of severe weather, motion designer and video game developer, cracked a joke on so…
The president contaminated the Reflecting Pool that’s in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Donald Trump had the bottom of it painted blue in celebration of himself, er, America’s 250th anniversary. The $14-million paint job is now peeling. Algae is blooming. Efforts to kill it with hydrogen peroxide ha…
The housing bill that sailed through the US Congress this week is going to become law no matter what the president decides to do. On Monday, it passed the Senate by a vote of 85-5. On Tuesday, it passed the House by a vote of 358-32. Even if Donald Trump were to veto it, those numbers suggest the wi…