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Judge Orders Plane Carrying Deported Mother and Child Turned Around, Blocks More Removals
Suzanne Gamboa and Jacob Soboroff, NBC News
Excerpt: "The court learned that the Trump administration had put a mother and a daughter who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit on a flight to Central America."
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty)
Suzanne Gamboa and Jacob Soboroff, NBC News
Excerpt: "The court learned that the Trump administration had put a mother and a daughter who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit on a flight to Central America."
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty)
Democrats Are Resorting to FOIA Requests to Vet Brett Kavanaugh
Li Zhou, Vox
Zhou writes: "Senate Democrats pushed back with FOIA requests on Wednesday against Republicans' refusal to obtain documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's time as staff secretary during the George W. Bush administration, members of the Judiciary Committee said."
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Medical staff tending to a boy injured by an airstrike in Sada, Yemen, on Thursday. (photo: Naif Rahma/Reuters)
Li Zhou, Vox
Zhou writes: "Senate Democrats pushed back with FOIA requests on Wednesday against Republicans' refusal to obtain documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's time as staff secretary during the George W. Bush administration, members of the Judiciary Committee said."
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Medical staff tending to a boy injured by an airstrike in Sada, Yemen, on Thursday. (photo: Naif Rahma/Reuters)
Airstrike by US-Backed Saudi Coalition on Bus Kills Dozens of Yemeni Children
Ali Al-Mujahed and Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Dozens of civilians, mostly children, were killed or injured in an airstrike on Thursday by U.S. allies on a bus in a crowded market in northern Yemen, according to health officials and international aid agencies."
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Police hold down a man during the Patriot Prayer march in Portland, Oregon, on June 30, 2018, amid a protest by anti-fascist groups. (photo: Mark Graves/AP)
Ali Al-Mujahed and Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Dozens of civilians, mostly children, were killed or injured in an airstrike on Thursday by U.S. allies on a bus in a crowded market in northern Yemen, according to health officials and international aid agencies."
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Police hold down a man during the Patriot Prayer march in Portland, Oregon, on June 30, 2018, amid a protest by anti-fascist groups. (photo: Mark Graves/AP)
Protester Maimed by Portland Police: 'I Thought I Was Going to Die'
Arun Gupta, The Daily Beast
Gupta writes: "Demonstrators injured by a barrage of police stun grenades and other less-lethal weapons in Portland last weekend tell The Daily Beast the city became a terrifying war zone."
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Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), walks out of a New York court house after being charged with insider trading on Wednesday. Democrats are seizing on the case to convince voters the GOP has a 'culture of corruption.' (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)
Arun Gupta, The Daily Beast
Gupta writes: "Demonstrators injured by a barrage of police stun grenades and other less-lethal weapons in Portland last weekend tell The Daily Beast the city became a terrifying war zone."
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Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), walks out of a New York court house after being charged with insider trading on Wednesday. Democrats are seizing on the case to convince voters the GOP has a 'culture of corruption.' (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)
Democrats Seize on GOP Ethics Scandals in Midterms, Because It's Worked Before
Scott Horsley, NPR
Horsley writes: "The Democratic Party used a similar campaign a dozen years ago to successfully take control of Congress, and that year 74 percent of voters told pollsters that corruption and ethics were either 'very' or 'extremely' important to their vote in the wake of a series of Republican ethics scandals."
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Scott Horsley, NPR
Horsley writes: "The Democratic Party used a similar campaign a dozen years ago to successfully take control of Congress, and that year 74 percent of voters told pollsters that corruption and ethics were either 'very' or 'extremely' important to their vote in the wake of a series of Republican ethics scandals."
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Miami Dolphins players. (photo: Wilfredo Lee/AP)
NFL Players Resume Anthem Protests as Preseason Games Begin
Laura Wagner, Deadspin
Wagner writes: "Two Miami Dolphins wide receivers, Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson, kneeled during the national anthem before their team's preseason opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers."
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Laura Wagner, Deadspin
Wagner writes: "Two Miami Dolphins wide receivers, Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson, kneeled during the national anthem before their team's preseason opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers."
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A 747 Global Airtanker makes a drop in front of advancing flames from a wildfire Thursday, August 2nd, 2018, in Lakeport, California. (photo: Kent Porter/AP)
Hothouse Earth Is Merely the Beginning of the End
Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone
Goodell writes: "On the radio, I listened to reports from around the world: in Athens, Greece, a fire killed 92 people; in Japan, a brutal heat wave claimed 80 lives. This summer, wildfires have been burning in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland and Germany. There are even wildfires in the Arctic."
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Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone
Goodell writes: "On the radio, I listened to reports from around the world: in Athens, Greece, a fire killed 92 people; in Japan, a brutal heat wave claimed 80 lives. This summer, wildfires have been burning in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland and Germany. There are even wildfires in the Arctic."
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