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Devin Rutan is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University. Renee Louis is a research specialist with the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. These researchers demonstrate that eviction is a process with abundant opportunities for violations of the Fair Housing Act making overall housing markets more...
The Trump Organization and its longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, have been indicted on charges from a years-long investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office that has involved prosecutors obtaining former President Trump’s tax returns. Prosecutors allege a 15-year scheme (from 2005 through this year) in which the Trump Organization...
It’s been one week since Election Day, and while votes are still being counted, we can evaluate what happened using 2020 exit polling. With the help of, Reuters here are 9 numbers that help explain an historic U.S. election that was conducted in the middle of both a worldwide pandemic...
Donald Trump boasts he’s the best president for Blacks since Abe Lincoln. But are Black lives really better under his administration? Charisse Jones at USA Today answer the question. Unemployment Three years into the Trump administration, African Americans experienced a record low unemployment rate of 5.4% in August 2019. But the...
Eli Watkins, Dan Merica and Katelyn Polantz report on the Dotard’s dossier, a collection of memos that were initially intended as political opposition research by Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer, who was hired in the summer of 2016 by a Washington firm that was already collecting opposition research...
Money can’t buy happiness But it could buy me a boat, it could buy me a truck to pull it It could buy me a Yeti 110 iced down with some silver bullets…” — Chris Janson, “Buy Me a Boat” The presidency of America’s 45th Commander in Chief will make...
North Korea is a totalitarian state that consistently fails to meet the basic needs of its 23 million people. The United Nations World Food Program says 70% of the North’s citizens did not have enough food to eat in 2016. An estimated 25% of the North’s children are physically...
The Legal Information institute at Cornell Law School points out obstruction of justice is defined in the omnibus clause of 18 U.S.C. § 1503, which provides that “whoever . . . . corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes,...
Emily Zanotti outlines how former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn won’t respond to a subpoena from the Senate Intelligence Committee, instead invoking the Fifth Amendment’s right against self-incrimination. Sources confirmed to the NBC News that Flynn will make his demand official in a letter to the committee Monday afternoon. ...
Less than 100 days into the new administration, the dominant story has been his campaign’s involvement with Russia pre and post election. David French gives us understanding as to what we have evidence of happening and what we don’t. Hacking The Russians hacked a few computers, but they...