“Trump is losing his grip on the dictatorial power he so covets,” said one legal analyst. The US Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt President Donald Trump a major loss by rejecting the administration’s request to strike down a temporary restraining order that barred him from deploying the National Guard in Chicago. In a 6-3 ruling that featured dissents from Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel […]
“Trump is killing jobs, raising energy costs, and harming the planet,” said Sen. Tim Kaine. “Grinch!” The Trump administration’s efforts to thwart a transition from climate-wrecking fossil fuels to renewable energy continued on Monday with a halt on five wind farms along the US East Coast under the guise of national security concerns. The US Department of the Interior announced that […]
The Venezuelan government condemned the seizure as “a serious act of international piracy;” meanwhile, a US official said the Coast Guard was pursuing a third tanker in the Caribbean. The Trump administration’s “total and complete blockade” of “all sanctioned oil tankers” off the Venezuelan coast was already denounced by critics as “an act of war”—and the United States further escalated its […]
“During a disaster… Waymos would be blocking evacuation routes. Hard to believe no one asked these questions, until you realize that good governance is suspended when billionaires knock on the door,” said one observer. A citywide Pacific Gas & Electric power outage Saturday in San Francisco paralyzed Waymo autonomous taxis, exacerbating traffic chaos and prompting […]