White House Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller was on Will Cain’s FOX News television show on Tuesday and made a rather startling statement. “What they don’t teach you in school is that from 1920 to 1970, there was negative migration [in America],” Miller told Cain. “There was a half century of negative migration. […]

Maine’s Medicaid system has been hit with a bombshell fraud claim, with a whistleblower alleging that a Portland-based contractor siphoned off millions in taxpayer dollars while its CEO was running for political office in his native Somalia. The outfit at the center of the storm, Gateway Community Services, is now being compared to the $1 […]

President Trump briefly paused a conversation with reporters aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, cutting himself off as a passenger pushed open the lavatory door beside him. The moment came as Trump was admonishing a reporter for swinging a boom microphone too close, prompting a quick laugh before he resumed his remarks. “You’re gonna have […]

In a striking scene in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge asks two men raising money for the poor, “Are there no prisons? … And the Union workhouses? … Are they still in operation?” When the charity supporters reply that many would rather die than go to such places, Scrooge replied, “If they would rather die … they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” Later in the story, Scrooge is reminded of his dehumanizing words and is […]

Hoosier State Republicans are signaling that a new congressional district map may make its way to the governor’s desk in time for midterm elections, but some hurdles still lie ahead. In a six-to-three vote Monday night, Indiana’s Senate Elections Committee advanced a new redistricting map already approved by the state’s House of Representatives. Currently, seven of Indiana’s […]