U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes scolded Trump administration lawyers on Monday for failing to provide sufficient notice before cutting down hundreds of trees in East Potomac Park over the weekend. The tree work quickly prompted an emergency order to halt progress and a morning hearing. The home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in Washington, D.C.,…
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Pro-Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) ads appeared to target the wrong city of Portland in a GOP super PAC mix-up, running ads in Oregon instead of Maine. “During a recent independent expenditure, our media vendor mistakenly placed approximately $25,000 in digital advertising in the Portland, Oregon media market instead of Portland, Maine,” a spokesperson from Republican…
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Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, on Monday said he does not approve of the Trump administration’s decision to livestream the military execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, warning that it could “imitate the terrorists.” Broglio said in a statement released by the Archdiocese for the Military…
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Pennsylvania authorities on Monday confirmed the state’s sixth death connected to a measles case as the state deals with the highest number of cases nationally. The Franklin County Coroner released an advisory on Monday stating a 39-year-old woman with “several underlying conditions” died following a recent measles diagnosis that had been treated. The coroner’s office…
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