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…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson The European Commission warned Poland Wednesday that it could impose unprecedented sanctions if the country moves forward with plans to reform its judicial system. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) has been given one week to halt reforms that would give the government greater control over the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Alexa Archambault A hardline conservative group of about three dozen members of Congress, known as the House Freedom Caucus, introduced Wednesday a petition to bring a clean Obamacare repeal bill to the floor of the House of Representatives. The bill, which is essentially a copy of the Obamacare repeal legislation…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Felicity Jones of “Rogue One” and “Inferno” will appear as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a biopic about the Supreme Court justice’s life. Deadline Hollywood reports that Jones was retained in place of Natalie Portman, who stepped back from the project. The film is called “On The Basis Of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The chief of staff of Iran’s military made a veiled threat against U.S. forces abroad Thursday in response to the Trump administration’s new sanctions against the country. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri warned the U.S. that applying the new sanctions and designating Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps…