Month: May 2019

A year after a record number of Kentucky teachers ran for state Legislature and mass protests shut down schools across the state, two educators are setting their sights on more powerful statewide offices. Jacqueline Coleman, a high school assistant principal, and Kelsey Hayes Coots, a middle school teacher, both participated in last spring’s protests, during which…

A new report details the negative consequences suffered by black women and girls when people perceive them as older than their white peers. Researchers at Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality reported their findings Wednesday after speaking to groups of black girls and women across the country about whether their real-life experiences reflected what…

President Donald Trump unveiled his vision for a major reform to the legal immigration system Thursday, calling for the slashing of family-sponsored visas in favor of those for highly skilled and educated workers. The White House is betting that the idea of slowing family-based migration while raising the number of high-skilled migrants will unify the…

The Department of Homeland Security has begun transporting undocumented immigrant families to cities beyond the U.S.-Mexico border “due to capacity limitations” at border patrol stations, a Customs and Border Protection official confirmed on Friday. Since Dec. 21, the official said, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released roughly 180,000 migrants into the U.S. interior, transporting them by…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday attacked the GOP when she claimed it “doesn’t care about babies at all — especially brown, black or poor ones.” The lawmaker doubled down on her criticism of Alabama’s strict new abortion law in a series of tweets in which she accused “the GOP extremists trying to invoke ‘the…

The syndicated game show “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” is ending after 20 years on TV and nearly 3,000 episodes, Variety first reported Friday.  “‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ will not return in national syndication for the 2019-20 season,” a representative told Variety. The popular game show debuted on ABC in 1999 with…

The Trump administration says it has terminated an agreement with California that would have directed nearly $1 billion toward the state’s high-speed rail project. The U.S. Transportation Department said Thursday in a statement that it would “deobligate” $928,620,000 in funds for the project, saying the California High-Speed Rail Authority “repeatedly failed to comply” with the agreement…

We finally have some bipartisan agreement on a very important issue facing America: Who should sit on the Iron Throne? A recent survey just ahead of the “Game of Thrones” finale by consulting firm Firehouse Strategies and Optimus found that 50 percent of those polled believe that Jon Snow should take the throne. That broke down to…

CNN’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Friday accused Attorney General William Barr of simply regurgitating Fox News’ talking points in a bid to cast a positive light on President Donald Trump. Toobin said he was “amazed” by an earlier “astonishing” interview that Barr had given to Fox News in which he defended the probe…

Has Stephen Colbert cracked the code when it comes to President Donald Trump’s tweets? The comedian riffed on reports of White House social media director Dan Scavino’s undue influence over the president on Friday’s broadcast of “The Late Show.” Colbert suggested Trump’s tweets, that are sometimes typed by Scavino, were actually like “an internet password.” “You…