Chris White The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is crafting a regulation dramatically curtailing the agency’s ability to retroactively veto water permission permits. EPA’s regulation mirrors a memo former agency administrator Scott Pruitt drafted before resigning his post in July. His memo directed the Office of Water to create a rule prohibiting the EPA from vetoing…
Nick Givas MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough accused President Donald Trump of declaring war on facts and America’s Intel community, Monday on “Morning Joe.” “The Intel community has proven itself time and time again to put America first,” Scarborough said. “You look, what Donald Trump’s own appointees are saying, what Dan coats is saying, the director of national…
Rob Shimshock Actor Kevin Spacey’s first film since becoming the target of sexual misconduct allegations opened to $126 Friday and $162 Saturday. Only eight theaters in the U.S. carried “Billionaire Boys Club” on its opening weekend and, when accounting for the average ticket price in U.S. theaters, a little fewer than 50 people actually saw…
Joshua Gill The Roman Catholic bishop of Pittsburgh rejected calls for his resignation Sunday, saying that the church today is not the one described in Pennsylvania’s sex abuse report. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court released the grand jury report Tuesday, which detailed instances of sex abuse and cover-ups in six dioceses over 70 years and which accused David…
Will Racke A New York state lawmaker proposed a bill to make it a hate crime to call 911 on people of color without any valid suspicion that they are engaging in criminal activity. State Democratic Sen. Jesse Hamilton’s proposal would add to existing prohibitions on false 911 reports by designating racially motivated calls as…
Emily Larsen Vice President Mike Pence said that the U.S. has more military satellites than any other country. Verdict: True The U.S. has 166 military satellites, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Russia and China have the next largest constellations at 89 and 84 military satellites, respectively. Fact Check: Pence touted U.S. military…
Evie Fordham The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized a generic version of EpiPen Thursday in response to the drug’s ballooning price as the agency continues to incentivize the pharmaceutical industry to make generics to reduce drug prices. American drug company Mylan manufactures the anti-allergic reaction product, which can cost up to $600 for a…
In my first installment about the film Pulp Fiction, I used Jordan Peterson’s theory of order, chaos, and personal responsibility to interpret the actions of Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent (John Travolta). In this second installment, I want to focus on one of the film’s most important characters: Butch (Bruce Willis). For those unfamiliar with…
On August 3rd, 1966, stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce was found dead in his bathroom, seemingly of a drug overdose. Only 40 years old at the time, Bruce’s untimely death followed a string of run-ins with the law, and a four-month period in a New York workhouse. The crime that landed Bruce in hot-water towards the…
Grace Carr Nine states have laws banning abortion that would become effective if Roe V. Wade is overturned, and four states have laws intended to ban abortion should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the legal right to abort. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wisconsin have laws that were passed…