Month: September 2020

Giffords, the political organization run by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), is going after top Republicans in Congress ahead of the 2018 midterm elections over their stances on gun control.  The group, which is made up of a lobbying arm, a PAC and a law center, has an “incumbent-defeat priority list” that includes House Speaker Paul…

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Five Saint John’s University wrestlers were mentioned in the D3wrestle.com preseason individual rankings released Oct. 25. Senior Mitch Hagen (Sunburg, Minn./Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg) was ranked second nationally at 184 pounds, while junior Nick Schuler (Roseville, Minn./Totino-Grace) and senior Chris Stevermer (Savage, Minn./Prior Lake) were listed as “contenders” to crack the top 10 at 165…

This is a developing story and may be updated… An Article of Impeachment against President Donald Trump was officially introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday. “The Constitution does not provide for the removal of a President for impulsive, ignorant incompetence.  It does provide for the removal of a President for High Crimes…

Nearly 50 years ago, the U.S. electric utility industry was warned about potential risks posed by climate change if it continued to rely on fossil fuels. Rather than heed those warnings, the industry spent the following decades instilling public doubt and making substantial investments in fossil fuels—according to a report released Tuesday by the Energy…

“Trump must immediately cease talk of pre-emptive war—which must be authorized by Congress—and commit to the diplomatic path advocated by both American experts and the South Korean government.” —Rep. John Conyers In a letter delivered to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday, 62 House Democrats denounced President Donald Trump’s “belligerent” and “reckless” threats against…

In what Planned Parenthood is calling a “political stunt,” the Republican governor of South Carolina issued an unanticipated executive order on Friday that cuts off public funding for his state’s abortion clinics, threatening a variety of healthcare services for Medicaid recipients and others. Gov. Henry McMaster’s order (pdf) bans South Carolina agencies from distributing “state…

With much of the Caribbean devastated by Hurricane Irma’s 185 mile-per-hour winds and 20-foot storm surges, South Florida anticipating similar destruction as the Category 4 storm approaches for a direct hit, and the Houston area beginning a recovery from Hurricane Harvey which is expected to last years, President Donald Trump’s budget proposal displays open hostility…

The Trump administration has issued a number of statements regarding the mounting allegations against Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of sexual assault and harrassment by dozens of women. But new revelations about a court case involving one of President Donald Trump’s own accusers has put the predatory behavior Trump freely admitted to,…

A top GOP donor in Florida is threatening to withhold contributions to candidates and political groups that do not get behind a ban on assault weapons, The New York Times reported.  In an email to half a dozen Republican leaders on Saturday, Florida-based real estate developer Al Hoffman Jr. decried the rash of mass shootings that…

A surprise attack by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) on a Democratic candidate ahead of Texas’s congressional primaries has drawn national attention to the primary fight in Texas’s 7th District.  Texans head to the polls on Tuesday for the first primaries of the 2018 elections. But while there are more than a dozen contested…