LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman President Donald Trump called former FBI Director James Comey a “showboat” in an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt set to air Thursday evening. “He’s a showboat, he’s grandstander, the FBI has been in turmoil,” President Trump said of Comey, according to NBC News. “You know that, I know…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Democrat strategists want Sally Yates, the acting Attorney General President Donald Trump fired for for refusing to defend his travel ban, to run for governor in her home state of Georgia. Yates hasn’t said if she’s interested in the bid yet, but murmurs are beginning among Democrat strategists that she…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall President Donald Trump released a tweet Thursday trolling comedian Rosie O’Donnell on the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Trump sub-tweeted a six-month-old tweet from O’Donnell that called for Comey’s firing. “FIRE COMEY,” O’Donell’s tweet stated. We finally agree on something Rosie. https://t.co/BSP5F3PgbZ — Donald J. Trump…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke Former Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida was found guilty Thursday of 18 of the 22 charges brought against her in a corruption case. The charges include conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, lying on financial disclosure forms, obstructing the IRS, taking money from a charity that claimed…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch Most American adults thought the “March for Science” protests organized in April didn’t help and may have even hurt activists’ goals of increasing federal funding for science and public concern over global warming. Forty-four percent of Americans believe the protests “will make no difference and 7% believe…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr A yearlong internal review the Associated Press released Wednesday examining an agreement the organization made with Nazi Germany concluded the AP did not aid the regime during World War II. The Associated Press struck an agreement with Helmut Laux, a Waffen SS officer, during Word War II…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman Maine Democrats and Republicans teamed up to alter the state’s minimum wage law Wednesday in a way that both sides say will benefit restaurants and its employees. The state legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research, and Economic Development voted 11-2 Wednesday to restore the “tip credit,” which allows restaurants to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said he doesn’t understand why so many activists defend what the agency chief called the Obama administration’s dodgy environmental record on water issues. Pruitt, who sued the EPA more than a dozen times as Oklahoma’s attorney general, told reporters Wednesday that the Obama administration…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley President Donald Trump’s abrupt dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey disrupted the political scene in ways that White House did not anticipate, and the fallout may stymie one of the administration’s top priorities. The prospect of future Supreme Court vacancies has kept the Republican party unified…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A magazine editor resigned Wednesday after receiving backlash over an opinion article in which he encouraged cultural appropriation in literature. Hal Niedzviecki, a novelist and editor for Canada’s Write magazine, sparked outrage for insisting that cultural appropriation is a good thing and that there should be an…