Demonstrators hold signs at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump’s executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Atlanta. (AP/Branden Camp)
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Tony Podesta, pictured here in 2004 while running the Kerry-Edwards campaign. accepted 170,000 dollars from Sberbank, Russia’s largest banking institution, to lobby against sanctions on Russia. (AP/Jacqueline Larma)
An LAPD officer investigates the scene of a single-vehicle accident in which journalist Michael Hastings was killed. (Photo: Al Seib/LA Times)
Mass deportations became a routine occurrence under the Obama administration. According to a report from the Miami Herald, during the first seven years of Obama’s presidency “more than 2.7 million foreign nationals were deported.”
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
WASHINGTON, DC — The transparency advocate group Wikileaks has made plenty of enemies in the U.S. government over the years, but yesterday’s events likely earned them several more.
Maintenance workers inspect the damage to one of the spires on Benedictine Hall at St. Gregory’s University following an earthquake in Shawnee, Okla, Nov. 6, 2011. (AP/Sue Ogrocki)
PAWNEE, OKLAHOMA– For the last several years, something strange has been going on in Oklahoma. While the occurrence of earthquakes in the state usually hovers between one to three quakes annually, Oklahoma is now averaging one to three significant earthquakes per day.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 26, 2016. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
Police tape marks off the burned front lobby of the Islamic Center of Palm Springs in Coachella, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. Flames were reported just after noon on Friday. The fire was contained to the small building’s front lobby, and no one was injured. (AP Photo/David Martin)
Donald Trump’s first month in office has already left countless human rights organizations and activists reeling. The ACLU and a small army of lawyers have been working around the clock, pro bono, to fight an executive order that has targeted visa holders, green card holders and DREAMers. One would hope that things couldn’t get any worse in such a short span of time.
And yet, they have.
A protester dressed as a diabolical version of Uncle Sam holds a suitcase full of money at the U.S. border fence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. (AP/Christian Torres)
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has taken its first concrete step toward constructing “the wall” — the much-touted physical barrier which Donald Trump has long promised to erect along the U.S.-Mexico border.
