NPR's Noel King talks to royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams about a woman who told the BBC that she was trafficked by Epstein and was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew, who denies the claim.
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A report released on November 18, called "Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States," shows that more than 2 million Americans live without [basic water] conveniences and that Native Americans are more likely to have trouble accessing water than any other group.
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Several congressional Democrats are demanding that Stephen Miller resign. Miller, of course, is one of the president's top advisers on immigration. Here's what's going on. The Southern Poverty Law Center says it got a hold of hundreds of Miller's leaked emails. Miller had sent them to a former journalist at Breitbart, and in them, he talks about white nationalist ideas.
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Opposition is growing in Florida to a water bottling company that wants to take more than a million gallons of water a day from Ginnie Springs. Environmentalists want limits on the amount taken.
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In a Democracy Now! special report, California has become the poster-child for this economic and humanitarian disaster. The state is home to 12% of the country’s population but half of the country’s unsheltered people. As the crisis deepens, so has the criminalization of homelessness.
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A new book by Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter Aaron Glantz [charges] that Harris not only allowed Steve Mnuchin’s OneWest bank to get away with foreclosing on tens of thousands of state homeowners, but then tried to bury the evidence.
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In the most iconic form of corruption, Trump awards the 2020 G-7 to the Trump Doral resort and MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle joins Chris Hayes to discuss this unprecedented corruption.
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The cable news network seems to have purposely taken some of Sanders’ comments out of context as well as doing some creative ‘saturation’ of video.
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This interview with Tulsi Gabbard is a disappointingly complete and shameless ‘gotcha’ attempt by Robin Young. Take a listen and decide for yourself.
This isn’t shame on Tulsi. This is shame on Robin Young, who, instead of conducting a substantive and ORIGINAL interview with Rep. Gabbard, reverts to previously addressed smears and misrepresentations.
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The target of the lawsuit is what was called "The Mississippi Plan," codified in the state's 1890 Constitution "to take political power out of the hands of African-Americans, and it was extremely effective," says Paloma Wu, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center's Mississippi office.
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The politics of race relations have been a central part of Biden’s career, from his high-profile opposition to busing to his authoring of the 1994 Biden Crime Bill. When he talks about his criminal justice record on the campaign trail, he argues today that the focus on the ’94 bill is unfair … but a closer look at his role reveals that it was Biden who was among the principal and earliest movers of the policy agenda that would become the war on drugs and mass incarceration, and he did so in the face of initial reluctance from none other than President Ronald Reagan.
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Republican lawmakers in North Carolina voted Wednesday to override Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of the state budget, in a surprise vote that was rammed through with barely half of state representatives present. Democrats say they were tricked by their Republican colleagues, who promised there would be no votes during Wednesday morning’s session of North Carolina’s House of Representatives in order to allow lawmakers to attend 9/11 memorial services. As the vote was called, one of the few remaining Democrats on the floor, state Representative Deb Butler, led a protest.
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President Trump has ousted John Bolton, who has long been a fierce critic of diplomacy. He had strongly pushed for Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. He also opposed negotiations with North Korea … and he was a key supporter of the attempted U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela and an advocate of regime change in Cuba and Nicaragua. PLEASE WATCH THE INFORMATIVE COMMENTARY AND DISCUSSION!
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Thousands of residents in Newark, New Jersey, remain unable to drink their tap water in an enduring public health nightmare. Lead contamination has plagued the city for years, but lead levels have spiked even higher in 2019. The crisis recently came to a head following revelations that water filters distributed to residents may not have been effective. New Jersey’s political leaders are facing mounting criticism for their handling of the water crisis. Advocates say the city downplayed the severity of the problem for years and has been slow on solutions, comparing Newark’s water crisis to Flint, Michigan.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing worldwide condemnation for vowing to annex nearly a third of the occupied West Bank if he wins next week’s snap election. The United Nations, the Arab League, the European Union and Russia have all criticized Netanyahu’s plan, which he unveiled Tuesday.
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House Republicans in North Carolina today held a surprise vote on the budget while Democrats were out of the chamber.
An NPR investigation finds that the military court and prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have cost taxpayers billions of dollars, with billions more expected.
Administration offers nonsensical explanation for why Hurricane Dorian survivors without visas were told to disembark a Florida-bound ferry on Sunday
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New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted.
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