ArchiveJune 2020

Donald Trump’s executive order barring work visas for a wide range of immigrants will hurt the United States, the nation’s largest scientific society warned on Tuesday. “Restricting immigration does not make America great or safe,” Sudip Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said in a statement. Preventing highly skilled workers from coming to...

Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has no idea what the “19” in “COVID-19” stands for, instead choosing to once again use a racist term for the deadly disease coronavirus causes. The comment came during a speech in Arizona to members of Turning Point USA — a group of young, Trump-supporting, right-wing activists — in which he rattled off a list of names people had used to...

Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) unveiled a proposal Monday that would give a tax credit to families to go on vacation even as coronavirus cases increase in several areas of the country. McSally’s proposal would provide each adult a $4,000 tax credit, plus $500 per child, to be used for a vacation, meaning a family of five would receive $9,500, according to a press release from McSally’s office. The...

A career federal prosecutor will testify on Wednesday that Attorney General William Barr explicitly intervened in the sentencing of Donald Trump associate Roger Stone on Trump’s behalf — a bombshell allegation that comes amid investigations into political interference at the Department of Justice. Stone was convicted in federal court in November 2019 on all seven counts of the indictment...

A Minnesota congressman claimed Tuesday that those protesting racism and police brutality are “at war” with America, its beliefs, and “western culture.” “The Democrat ‘Black Lives Matter’ Party, along with armies of rioters, are at war with our country, our beliefs and western culture,” Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) wrote in a Facebook post. “Their...

Donald Trump has repeatedly accused his critics and political opponents of committing crimes since taking office, at times even threatening to have them prosecuted, arrested, or even suggesting they should be executed. On Friday, he threatened to brutalize peaceful protesters on the eve of his first campaign event in months, a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “Any protesters, anarchists...

LGBTQ undocumented immigrants had two U.S. Supreme Court victories to celebrate last week: one that clarified protections against anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace, and a second that, for the time being, blocked the termination of an Obama-era program that benefits undocumented immigrants brought into the country as children. On Monday, the nation’s highest court ruled in Bostock v...

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is not happy with Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York. The reason? Cuomo is considering imposing quarantines on travelers to New York from out of state to curb the spread of the coronavirus. However, the measure is one that the Florida Republican had previously instituted in his own state. DeSantis signed an executive order on March 24 requiring 14-day quarantines of...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott thinks the record number of new coronavirus cases in his state is “unacceptable.” But he has not taken meaningful action to curb the virus’s spread. “To state the obvious, COVID-19 is now spreading at an unacceptable rate in Texas, and it must be corralled,” the Republican said at a press conference on Monday. “We must find ways to return...

Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was not kidding when he said he wanted to slow down COVID-19 testing because too many tests were coming back positive. “I don’t kid, let me just tell you, let me make it clear,” Trump said before leaving the White House on a trip to Arizona. Trump made the original comments on Saturday during a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “When you...