LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Henry Rodgers Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul backed President Donald Trump’s criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions via Twitter on Thursday, saying that he “should not have recused himself.” Trump harshly criticized Sessions on Wednesday in an interview with The New York Times, claiming that he would have picked somebody else for attorney general if he…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett White House Homeland Security Adviser Thomas Bossert said Thursday morning that the United States, contrary to many reports, would still like to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad removed. During an interview at the Aspen Security Forum, Bossert stated that even though removing Assad is not necessarily the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jack Crowe Tesla founder Elon Musk claimed he received “verbal government approval” Thursday for his hyperloop project, a high speed train that would transport passengers from New York to Washington, D.C. in 29 minutes. City center to city center in each case, with up to a dozen or more entry/exit…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Josh Guckert Tired of Government Ineptitude, Man Takes Initiative on Stairs But without government, who would build the park stairs? One man has the answer for that question, and his city isn’t happy. In Toronto, retired Mechanic Adi Astl took matters into his own hands after several of his neighbors…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed Thursday to remain in his post as attorney general, after President Donald Trump disparaged the AG in candid remarks to The New York Times. Sessions told reporters that he was proud of the Department of Justice’s work under his leadership, and said…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Low-income Americans saw greater week-to-week pay gains in the last quarter than any other group tracked by the Department of Labor. For the first time in roughly a decade, the weekly take for workers in the bottom 10th percentile of the wage scale grew at a quicker…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A white man running for mayor in St. Petersburg, Fla. told black people to “go back to Africa” during a Tuesday forum. Republican candidate Paul Congemi responded to fellow candidate Jesse Nevel’s proposal to create more recreational and community centers for the black community as a form of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett The sequel to former Vice President Al Gore’s 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth” is the height of “climate narcissism,” an attendee of the film’s Wednesday night premiere told Axios. Axios’s Amy Harder reported that the sequel’s Washington D.C. premiere “showed how much of the climate movement is out of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Comedian Bill Nye “The Science Guy” said Wednesday that the climate change movement can only move forward once the older generation begins to die off. “Climate change deniers, by way of example, are older. It’s generational,” Nye told the Los Angeles Times in an interview. Nye added that he…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke The Trump administration is not likely to throw its support behind a Senate plan to revive an amnesty bill for illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, administration officials said Wednesday. A White house official told McClatchy that President Donald Trump would not sign an updated version of…