Day: September 17, 2019

Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg delivers brief remarks surrounded by other student environmental advocates during a strike to demand action on climate change outside the White House on September 13, 2019, in Washington, DC. | Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images “I know you’re trying, but just not hard enough.” This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. In a packed…

Fox News They keep using the same false talking point to change the topic. A New York Times story from over the weekend contains a third, previously undisclosed sexual misconduct allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The report was later updated to make it clear the new allegation is not as strongly corroborated as readers of the first version of the story may have been led to believe. Fox News is capitalizing on the…

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) takes part in a panel discussion led by Aimee Allison, touching the changes of the face of power in the United States after a history-making number of diverse members were sworn into Congress. | Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images It’s the first step to getting an impeachment inquiry underway. Amid politicians’ calls for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s impeachment, Rep. Ayanna Pressley is actually trying to get the process started. Pressley…

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang speaks during a forum on gun safety at the Iowa Events Center on August 10, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa.  | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images The blowback over Yang’s debate comments, explained. During the third Democratic debate, Andrew Yang made a joke that played up an Asian stereotype: “Now, I am Asian, so I know a lot of doctors,” he quipped. It wasn’t the first time he’d done so. Two months…

United Auto Workers members picket at a gate at the General Motors Flint Assembly Plant after the union declared a national strike against GM at midnight on September 16, 2019, in Flint, Michigan. | Bill Pugliano/Getty Images They want the automaker to keep good-paying jobs in the US. At a July 2017 rally in Youngstown, Ohio, President Donald Trump told his supporters not to sell their homes because the factory jobs are ‘‘coming back. They’re…

Andrew Yang following the second Democratic presidential debate in July 2019. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Yang’s UBI pilot might violate campaign finance law, but there’s no one to stop it from going forward. Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang promised to spice up September’s primary debate by doing “something no presidential candidate has ever done before in history” live on television. He kept that promise by announcing in his opening statement that he would give away…