As senator, Harris decried the ‘ongoing pollution crisis along California’s border with Mexico’ Kamala Harris tours border, 2011 (Office of the Attorney General of California/Wikimedia Commons) As a California senator, Kamala Harris sought to protect the U.S.-Mexico border from an urgent “crisis”—but it wasn’t the immigration crisis. On April 30, 2019, the presumptive Democratic presidential
Hundreds of the most prominent U.S. environmental organizations are waging war on bipartisan permitting legislation moving through the Senate, despite the bill’s provisions fast-tracking green energy development. The Energy Permitting Reform Act—introduced last week by Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee leaders Joe Manchin (I., W.Va.) and John Barrasso (R., Wyo.)—is the product of months
Republicans said Google violated the law with its routing of emails. A federal judge on July 31 tossed a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) over Google routing the RNC’s emails to recipients’ spam folders. The RNC failed to state a claim under California Unfair Competition Law (UCL) or for intentional interference with
Trump and his attorneys repeatedly asked Merchan and other courts to terminate the gag order, arguing that it violated his constitutional right to free speech. A New York state appeals court has denied former President Donald Trump’s request to lift a gag order imposed in his business records falsification case, with the order remaining in
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) on Thursday said the Biden-Harris administration “betrayed the American people” by striking a “sickening” plea deal that lets the three terrorists behind the 9/11 attack avoid the death penalty. “On September 11, 2001, as the world watched the deadliest terrorist attack in American history, the American people rallied together in
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is threatening to subpoena Columbia University should the school refuse to provide internal communications on campus anti-Semitism from Josef Sorett, the dean at the center of the texting scandal that has rocked the Ivy League institution, as well as other university leaders. The committee’s chairwoman, Rep. Virginia
MOSCOW/ANKARA (Reuters)—The Biden administration has agreed to what may be the biggest prisoner swap with Russia since the Cold War, a senior administration official confirmed Thursday. Jailed U.S. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were among 26 prisoners from the United States, Russia, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Belarus being