As with any emergency, there will be a minority who refuse to heed warnings from experts. However, it’s one thing to put your own well-being at risk. It’s another thing to put others at risk. Case in point: the COVID-19 pandemic has attracted a mixed response from citizens, government officials, and the media. Early on,…
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced today that Chicago’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade will be delayed to prevent further spread of the coronavirus. The decision was made following guidance from public health experts, including the CDC. The St. Patrick’s Day parades and associated activities “present very unique circumstances for Chicago,” the mayor…
Beloved long-time Jeopardy host Alex Trebek gave fans an update on his health on Wednesday. A year ago, Trebek was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The 79-year-old game show host recorded a roughly two-minute video addressed to fans. “Hi, everyone. If you’ve got a minute I’d like to bring you up to date on my health situation,”…
South Bend mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg gave a brief interview with Univision on Wednesday. Buttigieg took the opportunity during the interview to criticize the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, which resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents at the border. He has been an outspoken critic of President…
More than 400 former federal prosecutors asserted in a statement published on Medium Monday that President Donald Trump would face multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice if he did not hold his current office.
In a series of tweets earlier this week, Donald Trump continued his relentless attacks on the First Amendment. The president of the United States – the so-called “leader of the free world” – suggested that the New York Times “will have to get down on their knees and beg for forgiveness.” To be sure, some…
The United States is a nation where presidential overreaches, outright abuses of power, and largely successful attempts to undermine our constitution’s system of checks and balances stretches back over generations – and, in fact, one can find examples dating to the earliest days of our democratic republic. Whether or not these scandals amounted to “high…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren became the first 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to call for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump on Friday. The Massachusetts Democrat decided to call on the House to move to impeach Trump shortly after reportedly reading the redacted Mueller report on Thursday. Warren pointed to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s finding that Trump may have…
After two years of investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller released his findings into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and the extent to which the Trump campaign coordinated with Russians. The report was delivered to the Attorney General in March, and a redacted version of the report is now being made available to the…
The president of the University of Notre Dame, Rev. John I. Jenkins, has released a statement in reaction to the devastating fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. In a statement, Jenkins writes: We are deeply saddened to see the damage to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, a church whose exquisite Gothic architecture has…
