“Congress should not respond to an escalating occupational hazard by permanently removing the Department of Labor’s authority to address it.” A Republican-controlled House committee passed legislation earlier this week that would prevent the US Labor Department from enacting federal standards to protect workers from extreme heat, a move that came amid sweltering heat across the country. The Heat Workforce Standards Act, […]
“He’s never seen a war that he didn’t like.” US President Donald Trump on Tuesday recalled Lindsey Graham’s warmongering ways ahead of the late Republican senator’s funeral, while once again threatening to commit more atrocities in Iran if an agreement to stop the war he and Israel started there is not reached soon. Trump phoned in to Fox News’ […]
“’Bombing boats’ to stop drugs isn’t just cruel and illegal—it’s futile,” said one expert. An internal government analysis has revealed that President Donald Trump’s campaign of strikes against alleged drug boats off the coasts of Latin America hasn’t achieved its purported goal of diminishing the amount of cocaine being trafficked into the US. The Washington Post reported on Monday that […]
A majority of the three-judge appellate panel called part of the president’s March executive order “an unprecedented federal incursion into states’ exclusive power to determine voter eligibility.” A federal appellate panel on Saturday rejected the Trump administration’s request to lift a lower court’s injunction blocking the US Postal Service from enforcing President Donald Trump’s March executive order […]
