Markey Demands Trump Cancel Plan to Give Private Companies Enough Plutonium to Build 2,000 Nuclear Bombs

Markey Demands Trump Cancel Plan to Give Private Companies Enough Plutonium to Build 2,000 Nuclear Bombs

  “Only Trump’s get-rich-quick bros would come up with this corrupt and moronic scheme,” wrote Democratic Sen. Ed Markey. A prominent US senator on Tuesday implored President Donald Trump to cancel his administration’s plan to give private companies enough plutonium to build around 2,000 nuclear bombs, warning the move raises “serious weapons proliferation concerns” along with potentially […]

Critics Aghast as Trump Appoints ‘Personal Henchman’ as Acting DNI

Critics Aghast as Trump Appoints ‘Personal Henchman’ as Acting DNI

  “The president has chosen an official who has demonstrated not just willingness but eagerness to use the authorities of government to pursue political retribution,” said US Sen. Mark Warner. President Donald Trump shocked many observers on Tuesday when he appointed Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte to be his acting director of national intelligence, weeks […]

Trump Moves to Dismantle Crucial Ocean Monitoring System

Trump Moves to Dismantle Crucial Ocean Monitoring System

  “Blinding the public to climate change won’t make it go away. It will only accelerate its profound consequences.” In what a number of scientists suggested was the Trump administration’s latest effort to stop tracking the changing climate in hopes of convincing the public that the climate emergency isn’t happening, the National Science Foundation announced Monday that it was dismantling […]

Watch: Trump Admits ‘We Shouldn’t Have Been in Iran’

Watch: Trump Admits ‘We Shouldn’t Have Been in Iran’

  The president also simultaneously claimed to have left Iran’s military alone and destroyed its navy and air force. President Donald Trump said Saturday during an interview with his daughter-in-law that the US should not have waged war on Iran, while making contradictory claims about destroying Iran’s military and leaving it alone. “You look at what happened […]

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