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Published time: 21 Jul, 2017 04:02 President Donald Trump’s choice of Sam Clovis to head the USDA’s top science post breaks with the US Code, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. Clovis is a well-known skeptic of climate change and has no natural science degree. Pending Senate confirmation, Clovis will be the next undersecretary […]
This Is Us MVP Sterling K. Brown would be the first to tell you that the last thing he ever expected was to be famous — never mind so famous that he’d end up being interviewed for The TVLine Podcast as one of our Dream Emmy nominees. “I always thought that I would just be […]
Thomson Reuters Democratic Sen. Jon Tester said Sunday that he would vote against Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court. Gorsuch was “a smart man,” Tester said in a statement, “but that doesn’t make him right for a lifetime appointment to the US Supreme Court.” “With Judge Gorsuch on the bench, […]
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File WASHINGTON (AP) — The Wall Street attorney chosen by President Donald Trump to head the Securities and Exchange Commission has worked on many of the kinds of deals the agency regulates and represented some of the world’s biggest financial firms. A financial disclosure report that Jay Clayton filed with the government […]
The Muslim filmmaker directed The Salesman, which won Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. Anousheh Ansari, who presented the award, read out Farhadi’s statement from abroad, which referenced President Trump’s immigration ban for seven majority Muslim countries. It said: “It’s a great honour to be receiving this valuable award for the second time. “I’m […]
The annoucement was made by London Mayor Sadiq Khan on behalf of Asghar Fahadi’s The Salesman. The film is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards in Los Angeles – which the director refuses to attend because of President Trump’s executive order. The Iranian film will be screened for free in […]
REUTERS/Carlos Barria When Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch chose the words “disheartening” and “demoralizing” to describe attacks on the integrity of the federal judiciary this week, many took them to be a cautious but not-so-subtle message to Senate Democrats. Navigating the nor’easters of Washington’s confirmation process means winning over at least eight Democrats. And […]
A stunning interruption on the Senate floor led to the ban on Democratic Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren from ever speaking in the chamber on the nomination of Republican Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions’ to the US Office of the Attorney General. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) quashed the progressive champion as she read from a […]
AP Photo/Alex Brandon Lawmakers held the floor of the US Senate late Monday night in an eleventh-hour effort to tank the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, Betsy DeVos. Democratic senators railed against DeVos on the Senate floor and on social media, calling her unfit to oversee the nation’s education system. Sen. […]
US President Donald Trump’s pick for Labor Department head, Andrew Puzder, has admitted to employing an undocumented immigrant for years, an admission that has caused Cabinet nominees to withdraw in the past. On Monday, Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants (the company that owns the fast food restaurants Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr.), admitted to employing […]
