ArticleGroup fights Big Bend bor­der con­struc­tion

A non­profit aimed at pro­tect­ing Nat­ive Amer­ican his­tor­ical sites filed a law­suit in fed­eral court Fri­day to block the Trump admin­is­tra­tion’s bor­der secur­ity con­struc­tion in Big Bend National Park. The law­suit claims that the...

ArticleTrump to Supreme Court: Let ball­room go for­ward

WASHINGTON — Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump’s admin­is­tra­tion on Fri­day asked the U. S. Supreme Court to allow the White House to con­tinue con­struc­tion on its $ 400 mil­lion ball­room project while it appeals a lower court’s order to halt the...

ArticleI’m quit­ting, says Trump press chief

DONALD Trump’s press sec­ret­ary Karoline Leav­itt is quit­ting the White House to devote time to her young fam­ily, she said last night. Ms Leav­itt, 28, who gave birth to a second child in May and had returned from mater­nity leave only on July 16,...

Article‘Our voice mat­ters.’ South Flor­ida voters take advant­age of final days of early vot­ing

ArticleDOJ elec­tion fraud charges remain absent

Two months after threat­en­ing charges related to Cali­for­nia’s June primary elec­tion, one of Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump’s top pro­sec­utors in the state has filed a total of zero cases. First Assist­ant U.S. Attor­ney Bill Essayli’s radio silence...

ArticleThe Trump fam­ily’s unpre­ced­en­ted cash grab

The US gov­ern­ment has ear­marked $1.6 bil­lion to help a small Amer­ican com­pany, Kaz Resources LLC, mine tung­sten in Kaza­kh­stan. There’s a good argu­ment to be made that such an invest­ment is in the national interest. China dom­in­ates the...

ArticleDemo­crats’ pro­gress­ive clashes widen

Pro­gress­ive can­did­ates for gov­ernor in Wis­con­sin and U.S. Sen­ate in Min­nesota made their final pushes ahead of Tues­day’s elec­tion, increas­ing the pres­sure on a Demo­cratic estab­lish­ment that has spent the year on its heels. The...

ArticleThe polit­ical changes you make today can bite you tomor­row

Some­times things go one way, and then they just turn around. What was once an advant­age dis­ap­pears or even turns into a dis­ad­vant­age. It’s that way in just about everything, most espe­cially in polit­ics, where par­tisan advant­ages ebb and...