[ad_1] A shale gas well drilling site is pictured in 2020 in St. Mary’s, Pa., a key battleground state where the fracking industry has brought in jobs. Keith Srakocic/AP hide caption toggle caption Keith Srakocic/AP In a sit-down interview with CNN on Thursday, Vice President Harris said she wouldn’t ban fracking if elected president, a […]

[ad_1] Politics / August 30, 2024 But the hope I felt when she became the nominee has been curdling into despair over her refusal to allow a Palestinian to address the convention—and her continuing silence on Gaza. Ad Policy Delegates wearing keffiyehs hold up signs with the names of people who died in the Gaza […]

[ad_1] It was Harris’ first major interview as the Democratic presidential nominee. She said she’d appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if elected, and she responded to questions about policy shifts over the years. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with CNN for her first major interview as the Democratic presidential nominee. […]

[ad_1] Politics / August 30, 2024 Harris and Walz held their own during an interview driven more by media-made controversies than substance. Ad Policy Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz sit for a joint interview with CNN’s Dana Bash. (Screen shot/ CNN) No sooner had Vice President Kamala Harris agreed to the high-profile […]

[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When Congress held hearings in December 2023 to investigate allegations of campus antisemitism, they brought in the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania. At the […]

[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first ever federal action against a system that misleads consumers about the recycled content in plastic products. A ProPublica investigation in June showed how the […]

[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A congressman intervened to help former President Donald Trump’s social media company jump the line for a difficult-to-obtain foreign-worker visa to bring a company executive to the U.S., according to interviews and […]

[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Every fall, I spend an evening in my investigative reporting class extolling the virtues of searching court records. Lawsuits can shine a light […]

[ad_1] A voter entering a polling place in Mountain Brooks, Ala., on Super Tuesday on March 5, 2024. Alabama is one of several states where GOP officials are launching fresh efforts to purge their voter rolls of noncitizens, even though there’s little evidence noncitizens vote in significant numbers. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption […]

[ad_1] Vice President Harris is pictured during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash in Savannah, Ga., on Thursday — her first in-depth, on-the-record conversation with a journalist since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. Will Lanzoni/CNN hide caption toggle caption Will Lanzoni/CNN Vice President Harris sat for her first interview Thursday night since entering the presidential […]