Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition

More than 100million citizensof eight countries are now banned, to varying degrees, from traveling to the United States, thanks to a minor procedural ruling from the Supreme Court on Monday. Legal scholars caution that the decision is not necessarily an indication of how the justices will rule on President Donald Trump’s travel ban should it come before them for a hearing on its merits, but it is nonetheless part of a long history of U.S.

With the GOP’s tax plan moving ahead and the Obamacare fight in the rearview mirror, Republicans in Congress are setting their sites next on deregulating Wall Street. But unlike the previous battles, they can count on Democratic help in this fight. They will also face an invigorated populist wing of the party.

The lead author of the Senate Republican tax plan, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah, said that the federal government no longer has the money to fund the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP. “The reason CHIP is having trouble [passing] is because we don’t have money anymore,” Hatch said. “We just add more and more spending and more and more spending, and you can look at the rest of the bill for the more and more spending.

Adriana was still breastfeeding her daughter Riley, when officers came to her home in Texas and arrested her, her husband, and his brother. Adriana, who was in a different room with her children at the time, said the officers seemed to know exactly what they were after when they went into her brother-in-law’s room; they found a small amount of marijuana. Police arrested all three.

To commemorate Gay Pride month this past summer, Howard Pulchin, an executive at the giant public relations and lobbying firm APCO, published a somber essay on the company’s website. Pride “feels awfully different” this year, he wrote, alluding to a rising tide of anti-gay sentiment. News had broken of anti-gay pogroms in Chechnya. In Washington, President Donald Trump’s administration was rolling back protections for transgender students.

Tensions between the business-friendly wing of the Democratic Party and the progressive faction have endangered the Democratic candidate for mayor of Atlanta in what ought to be a cakewalk of an election. On Tuesday, Atlanta’s heavily Democratic-leaning voters will go to the polls in the runoff in the mayoral election.

Research backed by the U.S. and Israeli military scandalized a conference near Tel Aviv earlier this year after a presentation showed how the findings would help drone operators more easilylocate people — including targets — fleeing their strikes and better navigate areas rendered unrecognizable by prior destruction.

Beginning on Wednesday, Jair Bolsonaro, a hard-right member of the Brazilian Congress and a 2018 presidential hopeful, will visit Florida, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, D.C. And he’s expected to get a rowdy welcome: Brazilian activists in the U.S. are gearing up to let him know his extreme right-wing politics won’t go unnoticed during his stateside trip. Bolsonaro is making the journey in hopes of courting overseas support for his 2018 presidential candidacy.

As the controversy over protests during the national anthem grew, President Donald Trump denounced NFL owners as being “afraid of the players,”a state of affairs that he called “disgraceful”.

In an otherwise predictable New Jersey election season, the state’s largest public sector union has come out behind a Trump-supporting Republican facing an incumbent Democrat. The New Jersey Education Association, which is New Jersey’s top political spender, is backing Republican Fran Grenier against Steve Sweeney, the Democratic state Senate president and New Jersey’s second most-powerful elected official.

Abailiff pushedJabar Ali Refaie’s wheelchair into a federalcourtroom in Tampa, Florida, on September 20. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit and looking weak from not having had the drugs he takes to treat his multiple sclerosis, the 37-year-old Refaie was here for a bond hearing after being indicted on felony charges that allege he sold counterfeit BMW logos and diagnostic software on eBay.

Despite being called “Sanctuary Sally” by her Republican opponent, Sally Hernandez sailed to victory in last year’s Travis County, Texas, sheriff’s raceby pledging to end the department’s voluntary cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That Hernandez’s stance would find a receptive audience in Travis County, which isdominated by the liberal bastion of Austin, was not altogether surprising.

The Democratic Party has fully mobilized multiple times this year in defense of the Affordable Care Act. But when it comes to the future of health care, the party has quietly given up on the idea of trying to make theACA principle of regulated private insurance markets work. Instead, they see expanding public health insurance as the future. Republicans have only themselves to blame. The most visible sign of this shift from private to public was the release of Vermont independent Sen.

A lot of the debate around blackNFL players kneeling to protest police killings and racism seems to take placein a historical vacuum. The history of athletes and protest is seldom mentioned and, what’s worse, the reason why Colin Kaepernick and his comrades began protesting during the national anthem has been drowned out in the shouting.

Businesses ground to a halt here in Barcelona and across Catalonia on Tuesday, as a general strike was observed and protesters poured into the streets. Two days after the Spanish government authorized the use of force to disrupt a referendum on independence from Spain, Catalans for and against secession remain livid. The small village of Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona #VagaGeneral3O pic.twitter.