A massive contract for $400 million was awarded to Fisher Sand and Gravel, a contractor that President Donald Trump reportedly pushed the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to hire, to build a span of new border wall through the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in Yuma County, Ariz. The Defense…
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Descendants of Lynching Victims Disturbed by Trump’s Latest Claim
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump compared the impeachment proceedings against him to the lynching of Black people throughout history. Actual descendants of lynching victims have come out against the president’s claims. “Either he’s very ignorant or very insensitive or very racist and just doesn’t care,” Malinda Edwards, 66, told the…
Trump Compares Impeachment Inquiry to ‘Lynching’ in Swiftly Rebuked Tweet
President Donald Trump compared the House impeachment inquiry to a “lynching,” a term most associated with the mob hanging of Black men in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in a tweet Tuesday morning, drawing backlash from both sides of the aisle but also getting support from Republican lawmakers…
Greta Thunberg, Teen Climate and Environmental Activist, Wins ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’
Greta Thunberg, the teen climate and environmental activist from Sweden, took centerstage as the United Nations General Assembly got underway this week. And after giving an impassioned speech at the UN Climate Action Summit on Monday, Thunberg, 16, was recognized as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood…
Video: Rep. Cummings Says What Every Non-Bigoted American Thinks About Trump's 'Zero Tolerance' Policy
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) expressed what compassionate, non-bigoted Americans feels about the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy on immigration — “We are better than that.” At the House Oversight Committee hearing with Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday, Cummings, a ranking member, slammed the policy that separates migrant…
'Go Back to Africa,' Mayoral Candidate Tells Uhuru Movement Members
A mayoral debate in St. Petersburg, Fla., took a turn for the worse whenPaul Congemi, aRepublican candidate and supporter of President Donald Trump,told his opponent’s African American supporters to take a plane from Tampa airport and “Go back to Africa.” Congemi, 60, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2009 and…
Kansas Man Shouts 'Get Out of My Country' Before Killing Indian Immigrant
Adam Purinton, a 51-year-old white male, killed Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old engineer from India, because he looked “Iranian.” The FBI is investigating the incident as a hate crime. Adam Purinton Purinton opened fire on Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, 32, who is also Indian, at Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe,…