Molly Prince on November 28, 2018 House Democrats selected Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as the nominee for speaker of the House on Wednesday in a closed-door meeting with the caucus. The nomination marks a win for Pelosi in the first major step in her bid to reclaim the leadership position when Democrats take back control of the…
Emily Larsen on November 28, 2018 After U.S. border agents fired tear gas at migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday, people on Twitter claimed that the Obama administration also used tear gas at the southern border. “For all the libs and mainstream media liars freaking out about tear gas used at the border… Obama’s border…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A Pew Poll released Wednesday shows that majority of Muslims in the United States sees the country as a friendly place. Fifty-five percent of United States Muslims found that Americans acted friendly towards them, according to the poll. Thirty percent of surveyed Muslim Americans had a neutral position…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Jack Crowe on July 21, 2017 White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigned Friday over President Donald Trump’s appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. Spicer reportedly told Trump he believed Scaramucci’s appointment was a major error after Trump offered him the job at 10 a.m. Friday, according to the NYTimes. Trump attempted…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Ian Tartt “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch The French government is offering climate scientists from around the world lucrative grants to temporarily move there and do research on global warming. President Emmanuel Macron’s administration set up the website, “Make Our Planet Great Again,” which advertises positions for senior researchers, junior researchers and PhD students…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman The U.S. is expected to issue an ultimatum to the United Nations Human Rights Council Tuesday: either remove anti-Israeli bias or America may withdraw. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said Saturday that Washington would decide whether to withdraw after a three-week session in Geneva, Switzerland wraps up…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that his country has no interest in taking up the Trump administration’s offer of renegotiating the terms of the Paris climate deal. Macron told President Donald Trump that France will keep open lines of communication with Washington, D.C., but the country will no…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen Where a person lives in the United States could determine how long the person lives, and the disparity between counties has grown over the past 34 years, according to a new study. “Geographic disparities in life expectancy among U.S. counties are large and increasing,” the authors write…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Wednesday that the United States won’t mandate that other countries adopt human rights values as a precondition for a relationship. During a speech at the Department of State, Tillerson noted that when it comes to issues like national security, relationships with other…