Press play to listen to this article Voiced by Amazon Polly Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a long-awaited plan to overhaul EU asylum procedures Wednesday, aiming to unify European capitals behind a common migration policy after years of deadlock and acrimony over the issue. Despite entrenched positions among national capitals, the Commission president hopes that…
The New York Times is commending Democratic Pennsylvania congressional candidate Conor Lamb for his performance in a deep-red district, saying it shows that Democrats should challenge Republicans in every race this fall. “Regardless of who wins the special House election in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, the Democratic candidate, Conor Lamb, has already accomplished something impressive by showing that his party ought…
The bipartisan No Labels group is looking to expand its fight for political moderates to more than a dozen primaries this year after being emboldened by Rep. Daniel LipinskiDaniel William LipinskiEngel scrambles to fend off primary challenge from left Liberal group backs challenger to Engel in Democratic primary The Hill’s Campaign Report: Campaigns scale back amid coronavirus threat MORE’s (D-Ill.)…
Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanBush, Romney won’t support Trump reelection: NYT Twitter joins Democrats to boost mail-in voting — here’s why Lobbying world MORE’s (R-Wis.) decision to retire from Congress has set off more alarm bells for Republicans worried about whether they can hold the House in the midterm elections. The ripple effects of Ryan’s…
Denouncing the GOP tax bill as a “dangerous” scheme that “gives away huge amounts of money to those who need it least and takes money from those who need it most,” a group of 10 religious leaders occupied an office of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Thursday demanding that she reverse her decision to support…
Consumer advocacy groups denounced the Department of Education’s decision on Wednesday to reverse the Obama administration’s pledge to forgive for-profit student loan debt—instead introducing an income-based system under which only some students will be liable for debt they incurred when attending schools in the fraudulent Corinthian Colleges chain. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced that instead…
AEW’s one-hour Late Night Dynamite special, which aired on TNT following game three of the NBA Western Conference Finals last night, averaged 585,000 viewers. The special began at 12:38 a.m. on the East Coast. It finished ninth overall in the 18-49 demo with a 0.26 rating. That matches the rating NXT did on Sept 1 when it…
In response to President Donald Trump’s announcement this week that he plans to hold an awards ceremony for dishonest media outlets, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Friday it was organizing its own event to honor anti-press world leaders. CPJ documents threats to press freedom including cases of journalists being killed, injured and imprisoned…
Highlighting President Donald Trump’s general lack of support for the constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of speech and the press, the president’s ever-evolving animosity toward the news media culminated in his #FakeNewsAwards, which he doled out on Wednesday night via the internet—as soon as the Republican National Committee’s website issue was resolved. The stunt—the subject of endless…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his embrace of the offshore prison at Guantánamo Bay by signing an executive order to not only keep it open but to possibly imprison more people there in the never-ending, ever-expanding war on terror. “Instead of vowing to end a longstanding national disgrace once and for all,…