A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Trump's firing of the head of a board that resolves disputes between federal employees and the government was unlawful. read more
Donald Trump's administration is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US's climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.
Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an extraordinary cavalcade of pollution rule rollbacks on Wednesday, led by the announcement it would potentially scrap a landmark 2009 finding by the US government that planet-heating gases, such carbon dioxide, pose a threat to human health.
The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, a research tool that publicizes the status of freedoms and threats to civil liberties worldwide. read more
The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization's staff -- a prelude to President Donald Trump's plan to dismantle the agency. read more
Republicans and their morbidly rich donors have hated Social Security ever since it was first created in 1935. They've called it everything from communism to socialism to a Ponzi scheme. In fact, it has been the most successful anti-poverty program in the history of America, one now emulated by virtually every democracy in the world. But the rightwing billionaires hate it for several reasons. read more
Trump and his goons treated Zelenskyy like trash and demeaned him as not sophisticated enough to know that Russia would respond positively to this offer if only Ukraine would sign onto The Plan.
But of course everything they say is a lie no matter whothey are talking to.