Billionaire Drug Pusher Indicted
U.S. prosecutors charged billionaire, founder of an opioid medication maker, John Kapoor, with fraud and racketeering. This follows indictments against...
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Elizabeth Warren: Trump Keeps Choosing Big Banks Over Working Families
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said President Donald Trump’s appointment of Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is more...
Trump Family To Save $1 Billion Under New Tax Plan, Middle Class Gets Shafted
According to a new analysis of the tax plan that passed the House this week, the entire Trump family will...
Trump Made Millions of Dollars From Drug Money Laundering in Panama: Newsweek Reports
President Donald Trump made tens of millions of dollars in profits by allowing Colombian drug cartels and other groups to launder...
Trump Claimed Keystone Pipeline Had ‘No Downside’ And Now It’s Leaking 210,000 Gallons Of Oil
In another failure for Donald Trump, the Keystone XL pipeline he revived shortly after taking office leaked more than 200,000...
Despite Trump Tantrums, Growth Of Solar Power Strongest In Red States & Republicans Love Solar
Donald Trump’s desire to pollute America’s skies with millions of tons of poisonous gases from coal-fired generating plants is running...
Voters Reject Psycho President As Number Who Believe Trump Is Mentally Fit Falls To New Low
A new Quinnipiac University Poll found that the number of Americans who think that Trump is mentally fit to be...
The Seven Republican Super-Donors Who Keep Money In Tax Havens
Seven Republican super-donors helped bankroll the conservative push for power in the 2016 election cycle, between them pumping more than...
Trump’s Exit From Anti-Corruption Pact Helps Big Oil Hide How Much It Pays In US Taxes
The Trump administration has pulled out of a global deal to combat corruption in the fossil fuel industry, a move...
Bernie Sanders Sounds The Alarm: Middle-Class Americans Will Foot The Bill For GOP Tax Scam
Bernie Sanders sounded the alarm about the GOP tax plan on Thursday, saying the massive tax cuts for wealthy Americans...
How Corporate Giant Nike Stays One Step Ahead of the Taxman
Everyone knows Nike. Most people probably own a pair of Nikes. It is unquestionably one of the best-known brands in...
Bernie Sanders Warns of ‘International Oligarchy’ After Paradise Papers Leak
Bernie Sanders has warned that the world is rapidly becoming an “international oligarchy” controlled by a tiny number of billionaires,...
Trump Administration Wants to Use Taxpayer Dollars to Keep Outdated Coal Power Plant Operating
You hear it all the time from Trump supporters, the tired old shibboleths about “government shouldn’t be picking winners and...
Trump’s Sabotage Efforts A Miserable Failure As Obamacare Signups Break Record
Despite Donald Trump’s efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, a record-breaking number of Americans enrolled in Obamacare insurance plans...
The GOP Tax Plan Tells Us That It Is The Rich Who Matter To Republicans
The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. Last year, the genius and muscle of...
Trump’s Anti-Environment Agenda Will Cost Us $34 Billion A Year In Health Costs
According to a new report, the cost of the anti-environmental platform of the Trump administration could total as much as...
Trump And His Cabinet Will Make $3.5 Billion From Their Tax Scheme
The tax plan being pushed by Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Washington is nothing more than a “get...
Predator Bill O’Reilly Shelled Out $32 Million To Settle Sexual Harassment Suit
According to The New York Times, Bill O’Reilly paid $32 million to settle a sexual harassment suit by Fox News...
Republicans Are Refusing To Give Healthcare To Kids Until Billionaires Get Tax Cuts
Republicans are refusing to renew the CHIP program that provides health insurance to 9 million children until millionaires and billionaires...
The U.S. Tax Code — $4.6 Billion In U.S. Oil Company Subsidies Per Year
In a new study of 800 undeveloped U.S. oil fields, researchers found that about half of the fields will never...
Republicans Finally Admit That Trump Is Unfit For Office
Republican Senator Bob Corker unloaded on Trump in a recent interview with The New York Times, where he said that...
Trump Throws 1 Million Americans Off Of Their Health Insurance By Ending CSR Payments
Trump’s decision to stop making the ACA’s cost-sharing payments to help people get access to affordable healthcare will result in...
White Supremacist Steve Bannon Declares War on the Republican Establishment
After calling on Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) to resign over his criticism of President Trump, former White House Chief Strategist...
VP Mike Pence Spends $240,000 to Attend NFL Game to Make a Political Point
Vice President Mike Pence spent more than $200,000 to attend the 49ers-Colts game he left on Sunday after players knelt during the anthem, according...
Republicans To Pay For Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich By Cutting Social Security/Medicare
Republicans are going to unveil the details of a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations, but they aren’t...
Subsidizing Earth’s Demise: US Taxpayers Forced to Prop Up Dirty Energy Industry
In the midst of a hurricane season that shows just how expensive inaction on climate change can be, two new...
Trump Jr. Cancelled Secret Service Protection So He Could Go Kill A Moose
Rumors swirled when it was announced that Donald Trump, Jr. would be relinquishing his Secret Service protection a few weeks...
Fascist Trump Hides Behind The Troops As Criticism of His Handling of Puerto Rico Grows
Saturday, President Trump conflated criticism of him with criticism of our soldiers and first responders. In fact, the U.S. territory...
Top Environmental Democrat Busts Trump’s Scam of Exploiting Public Land for Private Use
Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Ranking Member of the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, busted Trump on his secret plan to use...
Trumpcare Is Back, and It’s Even More Disgusting
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduce the latest proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act,...
Wind Power Saved USA Tens of Billions of Dollars, Study Finds
A study done by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and published by Nature Energy in August finds that wind power in...
Trump promised to put American workers first. He lied.
As Donald Trump celebrates Labor Day by proposing to slash taxes for CEOs such as himself, it may come as...
Obama Greatness Proven By New Census Data Showing He Raised Incomes and Lowered Poverty
Incomes went up, poverty went down, and the number of people with health insurance increased during Barack Obama’s final year...
Trump Uses Massive Damage From Hurricanes To Call For Giving Himself A Tax Cut
The tax cuts and tax reform that are being discussed would overwhelmingly benefit Donald Trump. How big of a tax...
Trump Walks Away And Refuses To Answer When Asked If Hurricanes Are Related To Climate Change
When he was asked by reporters if the hurricanes are related to climate change, Donald Trump didn’t answer and walked...
Activists Target Reactionary Midwest Politicians Opposing Wage Increases
U.S. activists plan protests in up to 400 cities across the United States on Monday’s Labor Day holiday to demand...
Before Harvey Hit, Trump Voided A Federal Rule To Protect Infrastructure From Future Flooding
President Donald Trump, who will visit Texas on Tuesday for a first-hand look at Hurricane Harvey’s deluge of rainfall, flooding...
Exxon Mobil Misled Public On Climate Change For 40 Years, Study Reveals
Exxon Mobil Corp. deliberately deceived the public about the dangers of climate change for four decades, a new Harvard University study...
Report: Vacationing Trump Entourage Bankrupting Secret Service
The Secret Service can’t pay hundreds of its agents to protect President Donald Trump’s large family and their frequent travel, Director...
Fox News Spent $50 Million To Settle Sexual Harassment Suits In The Last Year
According to the latest round of financial filings, Fox News has had to pay out $50 million in the last...
Alt-Right Fascist Trump Goes Off The Rails With His Moral Equivalency Rant
President Donald Trump spoke again Tuesday on the white supremacist conflict in Charlottesville, Virginia, defending his much-criticized initial statement on the protests and...
The Secret Service Spent $13,500 Of Taxpayer Money On Golf Cart Rentals For One Trump Vacation
While millions of Americans are underpaid and worried about the future of their health care, the Secret Service spent $13,500...
Obama Raises $10.8 Million To Combat GOP Election Rigging
The Obama backed, and Eric Holder chaired, National Democratic Redistricting Committee has raised $10.8 million in six months in their...
Bernie Sanders Attacks Nissan’s ‘Greedy’ Anti-Union Campaign
Bernie Sanders has attacked Nissan for doing “everything it can” to stop workers from unionizing at its Mississippi plant despite...
Bernie Sanders To Propose New Rule Requiring Fair Prices For Taxpayer-Funded Drugs
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to propose a new rule Monday that would require pharmaceutical companies to charge fair prices...
Rooftop Solar Is Growing Like A Weed, Despite Fossil Fuel Billionaires Trying To Crush It
Thom Hartmann talks about the growing interest and support for residential solar power applications, and all the way dirty fossil...
