NPR Cookie Consent and Choices. #ThinkBeforeSharing - Stop the spread of conspiracy theories. How the religious right gained unprecedented access to Trump. The US health secretary sat for an interview with a man experts say is the leader of a hate group known for “defaming gays and lesbians”, just two days after Karen Pence, the US second lady, was criticized for teaching at a Christian school that bans homosexuality.
Alex Azar, secretary of health and human services, was interviewed by the Family Research Council President, Tony Perkins, at an anti-abortion event called ProLifeCon in mid-January. “We are the department of life,” Azar told Perkins, “from conception until natural death, through all of our programs.” He then rattled off victories – new policies that make it difficult to obtain an abortion, including allowing healthcare workers to refuse to treat patients based on moral objections. Trump and the Russian mob: why the relationship is deeper than you think. On November 9, 2016, just a few minutes after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, a man named Vyacheslav Nikonov approached a microphone in the Russian State Duma (their equivalent of the US House of Representatives) and made a very unusual statement.
“Dear friends, respected colleagues!” Nikonov said. “Three minutes ago, Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat in US presidential elections, and a second ago Trump started his speech as an elected president of the United States of America, and I congratulate you on this.” Nikonov is a leader in the pro-Putin United Russia Party and, incidentally, the grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov — after whom the “Molotov cocktail” was named. His announcement that day was a clear signal that Trump’s victory was, in fact, a victory for Putin’s Russia. Macron condemned the rise of nationalism in front of Trump and Putin, warning that 'old demons are reawakening'. PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron used an address to world leaders gathered in Paris for Armistice commemorations on Sunday to send a stern message about the dangers of nationalism, calling it a betrayal of moral values.
With US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting just a few feet away listening to the speech via translation earpieces, Macron denounced those who evoke nationalist sentiment to disadvantage others. "Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism: nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism," Macron said in a 20-minute address delivered from under the Arc de Triomphe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. Activists rally to protect Mueller, and a historic victory for voting rights. The Resistance Now is a weekly update on the people, action and ideas driving the protest movement in the US.
If you’re not already receiving it by email, subscribe. Protests against Sessions firing Across the US, thousands of demonstrators protested against Donald Trump’s firing of attorney general Jeff Sessions. Beto O'Rourke's biggest blind spot cost him Texas. Democrats, take note. There is an uncertain hopefulness among Democrats just now about the party’s victories on Tuesday.
All are relieved that Democrats captured the House, though many are puzzled that even this was so difficult. Beyond the House, the victories were even less certain. First they marched, then they mobilized: how the resistance swayed the midterms. The single most important player in the midterm elections may well have been the grassroots resistance to Trump.
Democrats didn’t quite generate the blue tsunami they were hoping for, but they won back the House and prevailed in as many state and local elections as they did because of extraordinary and historic levels of volunteer engagement, for which the resistance can take much of the credit. Millions of those who marched in protest since Trump took office turned their energies this fall toward mobilizing to get voters to the polls: phone-banking, text-banking, and canvassing door-to-door in record numbers, which in turn helped generate record voter turnout across the United States.
An individual has only one vote to cast. 2018 midterms: New scientists elected to US House, Senate - Business Insider Deutschland. Congress just picked up several new science and health experts.Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images The faces of Capitol Hill are changing.
When the 116th Congress heads to Washington in January, there will be a record number of women in the ranks — at least 123, according to the news website Axios, including the first Muslim women, the first Somali-American, and the first Native American women. There will be more scientists too. On Tuesday, nine new science-credentialed candidates were elected: one senator and eight members of the House. The members of the current 115th Congress include one physicist, one microbiologist, and one chemist, as well as eight engineers and one mathematician.