LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Ethan Barton Some of the most highly toxic waste sites in America aren’t being cleaned because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refuses to send staff where they’re needed most, a government watchdog reported Tuesday. The EPA hasn’t changed how it distributes staff to Superfund sites in 30 years, despite acknowledging…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: TIM PEARCE Energy Reporter At least five people are confirmed dead after an earthquake rocked Mexico City Tuesday, just 12 days after the country suffered its strongest earthquake in a century. Tuesday’s earthquake registered as a magnitude 7.1 and struck about 70 miles southeast of Mexico’s capital, according…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Anders Hagstrom on September 19, 2017 The Georgia Tech student shot by police Saturday wrote three suicide notes in his dorm room before summoning police and repeatedly asking them to shoot him, investigators say. Scout Schultz, 21, had a history of mental illness and was shot by police Saturday after…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Juliegrace Brufke GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky blasted the Graham-Cassidy health-care reform bill Monday, questioning why members from expansion states would consider voting for legislation that significantly reduces funding to the areas they represent. According to Paul, the bill — which aims at replacing Medicaid expansion and insurance subsidies with block grants provided to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Ian Tartt Immigration is a hot topic, especially since the most recent presidential election. Some people advocate increased border control while others favor fewer restrictions. Libertarians, while generally falling into the latter category, sometimes end up in the former category. This leads to a lot of arguments over what…
These data breaches are absurd. It needs to be said. Almost 150 million Americans had their Social Security Numbers divulged. Hackers with access to these numbers and the right know-how can create false identities: stealing assets, creating new lines of credit, and altogether absconding with your hard earned money. What to do about it? Today,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: ROBERT DONACHIE Capitol Hill and Health Care Reporter Republicans, not Democrats, are on the verge of being the party that is forever responsible for making Obamacare the law of the land. A small coalition of Republicans in the Senate — Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Bill Cassidy of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: JACK CROWE Political Reporter Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown of California compared President Donald Trump supporters to prehistoric cave dwellers Monday during a New York climate event. Brown, an outspoken Trump critic, issued an usually harsh derision of Trump supporters after dismissing the president’s rhetoric on climate change science and U.S….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: It’s been roughly 230 years since the American Constitution first debuted. Unfortunately, that length of time doesn’t seem to have solidified its presence in the American mind. In fact, many Americans cannot even name the most famous element of its First Amendment. According to a recent survey published by the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Henry Rodgers Dana Milbank, a writer for The Washington Post, believes President Donald Trump is literally killing him. Milbank said he discovered Trump’s presidency is affecting his health after visiting the doctor for his first physical in 49 years, in an opinion piecepublished Sunday. Milbank said he had to report that…