Hart Fowler

Native American Warriors Honored With Memorial

It was announced yesterday that a memorial honoring the more than 156,000 active military service members and veterans who are Native Americans and Alaska Natives will open next year in Washington. The steel and stone structure, called the “Warriors’ Circle of Honor,” will be built outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on […]

5y ago

Donald Trump|mexico

Trump Issues Ultimatum To Mexico: Stop Illegal Immigration Or Border Will Close

President Trump again threatened to close the southern border, doing so in a series of tweets on Friday morning. This follows a Customs and Border Protection official’s report that border apprehension in March is on pace to exceed 100,000, the highest monthly total in a decade, according to Fox News. The CBP is the largest […]

5y ago

New York Second State To Ban Plastic Bags

New York state lawmakers have agreed to ban the use of plastic shopping bags as of March 1, 2020. The proposal was added as part of the $175 billion state budget plan which is expected to pass when it is put to a vote on Sunday. The ban applies to any store that is required […]

5y ago

fda|hawaii

Hawaii May Ban Vaping Flavors That Appeal To Kids, Proposal Says

In an effort to stop escalating teenage vaping, Hawaii lawmakers are considering a proposal to outlaw electronic cigarette liquids. According to The Associated Press, a 2017 study conducted by the Hawaii Health Department found 16 percent of middle-school students and 26 percent of high school students were current users of e-cigarettes. Even more disconcerting, the […]

5y ago

EU To Ban Plastic Forks, Knives, And Plates By 2021

While the U.S. is beginning to ban the use of plastic straws, the European Union passed legislation today to ban all single-use plastics by 2021. The ban will prohibit the use of all disposable plastic-made products that are designed to be used only once over a short time span before being thrown away. This include […]

5y ago

March Madness

Cinderella Hopes Alive For Oregon Facing UVA Tonight, Partly Due To Egyptian Transplant Ehab Ahim

Ehab Amin traveled 7,000 miles from Alexandria, Egypt, with stops in Wisconsin and Texas, before landing in Eugene, Oregon. The Oregon Ducks basketball team is thankful he made the trip. The fifth-year senior provided the “pivotal spark” that was instrumental in the Ducks’ victory over UC Irvine Monday, giving them their third trip to the […]

5y ago

Pittsburgh Council Waters Down Proposed Assault Rifle Ban To Avoid State Override

Pittsburgh’s City Council amended their original plan to outright ban assault rifles and passed a tentative measure today that would ban the “use” of assault weapons in public places. The gunman that killed 11 and wounded seven at the Tree of Life Synagogue last October used an AR-15, an assault-style weapon. It was the deadliest […]

5y ago

Facebook|mark zuckerberg

White Separatists And White Nationalists To Be Banned From Facebook

Facebook announced in a blog post today that they are banning any praise, support, and representation of white nationalism and separatism. Motherboard reported last spring that Facebook moderators were banning users from promoting white supremacy, whereas white nationalism and separatism were allowed. Heidi Beirich, head of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Intelligence Project, told […]

5y ago

Affordable Care Act|Barack Obama|Donald Trump|nancy pelosi

Pelosi Shushed House, Halting Their Singing Of ‘Happy Birthday’

It was an awkward moment, one captured by C-SPAN, when Nancy Pelosi addressed the House of Representatives from the floor this morning. She announced it was her birthday, and the gathered representatives stood and applauded. “No singing, no singing,” she said. When some of the members began the opening bars of “Happy Birthday,” she delicately […]

5y ago

Betsy Devos

DeVos Proposes Ending Federal Spending On Special Olympics And Cuts To Other Education Programs

It was another hard day on the Hill today for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Testifying before a House Appropriations subcommittee, she had to defend the Trump administration’s cuts to federal spending on education for the third year in a row. The Chairman of the committee, Democratic Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, began today’s hearing by […]

5y ago

Senator Uses Bizarre Images To Oppose Green New Deal

Member of Congress have always used visual displays to bolster their speeches on the floor. They can reiterate key points in their speeches and make for good photo opportunities. In 2015, Senator James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, brought a snowball to the house floor with a poster of his daughter in an igloo in his front yard […]

5y ago

LGBTQ

Support For LGBTQ Rights Sees Drop In Young Republicans

According to the findings of a survey of more than 40,000 Americans released today, there was a 10 percent drop in support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights for respondents under the age of 30 who identified themselves a Republicans. The New York Times reported that the survey, which was conducted by the Public […]

5y ago

Felicity Huffman|Lori Loughlin

Lori Loughlin And Others May Face Jail Time In College Scandal Case

The parents who allegedly paid bribes to get their children into prestigious colleges face the possibility of jail time if convicted, according to legal experts. Hollywood stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are affluent defendants, and will most likely be able to afford the very best legal representation. They are also most likely first-time offenders, […]

5y ago

Donald Trump|house of representatives

Today’s House Vote To Override Veto Expected To Fail

It is unlikely the House has enough votes today to override President Trump’s veto of Congress’ March 14 resolution that voided his call for a national emergency on the southern border. Last January, the House voted 245-182, with 13 House Republicans breaking with the White House, to pass the resolution. Today, Congress would need another […]

5y ago

Student Demonstrators Take To The Streets Of Downtown Pittsburgh To Protest Police Violence

It was a crowd mostly comprised of students that had walked out of class and took to the rainy streets of downtown Pittsburgh today to protest the Friday acquittal of former police officer Michael Rosfeld in the shooting death of Antwon Rose II. “Three shots in the back, how do you justify that?” was the […]

5y ago

Mueller Report Appears To Exonerate Trump On Election Tampering, Russia Will Not Be So Lucky

Russian officials resisted any “I told you so” moments in their response to the release of the summary of the Mueller report Sunday, though their state-run television news channel Rossiya 24’s reaction was less muted. “We in Russia have nothing to celebrate, the [meddling] accusations against us remain,” wrote Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the […]

5y ago

General Claims Marines ‘Face Fiscal Challenges Without Precedent,’ Due To Increase In Border Spending

President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy Marines to the southwest border and funding transfers under his emergency declaration for a border wall are “negatively affecting Marine Corps readiness,” according to a memo by Marine Corps Commandant General Robert Neller. “Unplanned and unbudgeted” tasks have caused the reallocation of funds from the defense budget, leading to […]

5y ago

Conflicting Reports On Justin Carter’s Accidental Shooting Death

Country/rap singer Justin Carter died yesterday from an accidental shooting, one which involved a gun he was using as a prop for a video shoot. The singer was 35, and left behind two young children. Details are still unclear whether the incident occurred during the actual filming of a video at Carter’s apartment. Carter’s mother, […]

5y ago

indiana

Indiana School Teachers Active-Shooter Training Left Welts, Drew Blood

Last January, during an active-shooter training exercise, teachers at an Indiana elementary school were asked by local law enforcement to kneel down against a classroom wall. They were then sprayed with plastic pellets without warning to show the consequences of inaction during a live shooting. “They told us, ‘This is what happens if you just […]

5y ago

Jordan Peele|Lupita Nyong'o

Jordan Peele’s Much Anticipated ‘Us’ Opens Friday

Jordan Peele’s “Us” opens Friday as the most anticipated horror movie of the spring. The film received an “electrified reaction” after a screening at South by Southwest earlier this month, according to the New York Times, and currently has 100 percent favorable ranking by the top critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Peele wrote and directed his […]

5y ago