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Lawmakers urge Congress to take action on southern border to keep migrant decline

A pair of lawmakers on opposite sides of the aisle on Sunday warned the decline in migrants at the U.S. southern border is likely not permanent and called for congressional action to maintain the drop. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), in two separate interviews on CBS News's "Face the Nation," agreed...

Criminalizing people living in the street doesn’t work

The Supreme Court can authorize governments to default to unlimited criminalization, an ineffective, expensive and cruel response. Or it can maintain restrictions on criminalization that encourage all governments to try humane and effective solutions.

A growing number of students rely on free school meals. What happens in the summer?

A growing number of states have implemented free lunches for all students in recent years, making the school year easier for families who are food insecure. But the summer is a different story. While new federal summer food programs are being cheered by advocates, some states haven't been able to implement those initiatives, and school...

‘The Apprentice’ Trump biopic shut out at Cannes

“The Apprentice,” a new biopic about former President Trump’s rise in the real estate industry, did not clinch any awards at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend. The biopic is directed by Iranian Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi and stars actor Sebastian Stan playing the then-New York real estate developer Trump and Jeremy Strong as...

Sports lessons are life lessons: Let trans Americans play 

Sports change lives — I know that from personal experience. But to experience the power of sports, trans athletes must be allowed to play.  

NATO boss takes apparent swipe at Biden, argues to end restrictions on US weapons for Russian targets

NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg echoed calls for the U.S. to end restrictions on Ukraine's ability to use American weapons to strike targets inside of Russian territory.

Pennsylvania Democrat blasts Alito for blaming flag controversy on his wife

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Penn.), in a Sunday interview, blasted Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for blaming his wife for displaying the upside-down flag outside his home in the days following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. In an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” Dean invoked Memorial Day as she stressed the importance...

Trump mocks Libertarians at their own convention 

Former President Trump mocked Libertarians while speaking at their own convention over the weekend after he was met with boos from the crowd. Trump attempted to make an appeal to Libertarians during their national convention on Saturday, at one point even suggesting that they should nominate him as their candidate for the 2024 election. That...

When is the next cicada-geddon?

An even bigger adjacent joint emergence will be when the two largest broods, XIX and XIV, come out together.

Donalds responds to MSNBC’s Joy Reid: ‘Crabs in a barrel’

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) on Sunday pushed back against criticism that he was being used as a “prop” while campaigning with former President Trump in the Bronx this past week. Donalds – a prominent Black Republican lawmaker and close ally of the former president’s – defended himself after MSNBC host Joy Reid said Trump was...

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