“The President of the United States may be willing to violate the Constitution to get reëlected,” the congressman from Staten Island said. “I will not.”
Under a Trump Administration policy called the Migrant Protection Protocols, asylum seekers are forced to wait in dangerous border towns for court proceedings that can drag on for months.
Since receiving a federal bailout a decade ago, G.M. has angered workers by announcing plans to cut its U.S. workforce, while doing spectacularly well for its shareholders.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, the strongest one in the islands’ recorded history, Floridians with boats and planes began an evacuation that rivalled Dunkirk in its approach.
At the convention, there were no visible allusions to recent mass shootings, which have killed dozens of people, but many attendees were happy to discuss the topic.
A coalition of miners, their families, and labor activists encamped beside a train loaded with a million dollars’ worth of coal, pledging not to move until the miners get the wages they are due.