Friday, August 14, 2026

Tag: White House

Biden should give thanks to First Peoples for giving him the...

This Thanksgiving, Biden supporters can give thanks to Indigenous Peoples. But please don’t blame them if Biden turns out to be a turkey.

Public health vs. politics: White House scrapped nationwide Covid-19 testing plan...

More than five months into the crisis, there continue to be critical testing shortages and delays. How did we get here?

Exclusive: White House privately warns 11 cities must take “aggressive” action...

New red flags about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak come after Trump focused on upsides in televised briefing.

White House document shows 18 states in coronavirus “red zone”

Unpublicized recommendations say states should return to stringent control measures.

US coronavirus data will now go straight to the White House....

Despite the inevitable challenges that come with tackling a pandemic in real time, the CDC remains the best-positioned agency – not just in the US but the entire world – to help us manage this crisis as safely as possible.

President rages as Twitter labels White House disinformation

Trump has come to depend on his Twitter feed as a way to circumvent the press and directly share his unfiltered thoughts with the public.

The war on words in Donald Trump’s White House

These days, witnessing the administration’s never-ending cruelty at the border, the shenanigans of a White House caught red-handed in attempted bribery in...

Here are some of the climate-linked disasters and rollbacks Trump’s ‘environmental...

“It's fitting that President Trump is promoting his awful environmental record on the same day that the White House is flooding after a historic storm.”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave her position as White House press...

Sanders, 36, was part of the Trump campaign and then moved into the principal deputy press secretary role in the White House before being elevated to her current position.
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Greenwald: White House spread false story about Venezuela burning aid trucks...

"Every time the U.S. wants to start a new war, it does it the same way, which is, it invents some really inflammatory, emotionally wrenching lie that gets people to hate the government they want to topple so much that they set their rationality aside and support the war."

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The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

Trumping the future

Okay, I’ll admit it. Sometimes I can’t take the bad news. It’s too much. It’s so extra, as the kids like to...

Legal battle looms as Louisiana mandates Ten Commandments in classrooms

Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed House Bill 71 into law, mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in "large, easily readable font" in public classrooms by the start of 2025.

The dark side of ecotourism: When green travel exploits people and the planet

As luxury eco-retreats and voluntourism surge, experts warn that without systemic reform, the industry may be doing more harm than good.

Gorsuch shouldn’t be confirmed until we know the person who picked him is cleared...

Neil Gorsuch shouldn’t be confirmed until Trump comes clean.