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Siding against Charter, a New York appeals court ruled Thursday that the state attorney general can pursue claims that the company’s broadband ads duped consumers. The ruling upholds a decision issued earlier this year by New York County Supreme Court Justice Peter Sherwood, who ruled that the Federal Communications Commission’s regulations about broadband didn’t override…
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday asked the Pentagon to make preparations to house as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on American military bases, a United States official said. New, makeshift detention facilities are being envisioned to house thousands of immigrant families that are crossing illegally into the United…
Photo: Getty America in 2018 is obviously not Nazi Germany, but one can be forgiven for seeing far too many echoes when it comes to our current child detention and family separation crisis. I am thinking especially of three things. The first is the voice of a man identified as a Border Patrol agent in…
White House chief of staff John Kelly and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders listen during a Roosevelt Room event Oct. 31, 2017, at the White House in Washington, D.C. Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) I thought white people were evil. I was wrong. Whenever anyone mentions the historical atrocity of chattel slavery, white people…
Illustration: Jim Cooke/GMG This morning, Splinter published the personal cell phone number of White House adviser Stephen Miller, an official so monstrous as to reportedly find humor in the disturbing images of child immigrants separated from their undocumented parents. Here’s Stephen Miller’s Cell Phone Number, If You Need It The Trump administration’s policy of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Staunton, Virginia, are detailed in federal…
I’ve never quite understood Marvel’s reluctance to introduce a gay character in their movies, mostly because have you seen those movies? They are gay, honey. They are fully on the precipice of coming out. They are so gay that I found pictures of Tom Daley in their search history. But which movie is the gayest? To…
The San Francisco Bay Area has rapidly become the richest region in the country—the Census Bureau said last year that median household income was $96,777. It’s a place where $100,000 Teslas are commonplace, “raw water” goes for $37 a jug, and injecting clients with the plasma of youth —a gag on the television show Silicon Valley—is being tried by…
President Trump caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday and signed an executive order that ends the separation of families by indefinitely detaining parents and children together at the border. “We’re going to have strong, very strong borders but we are going to keep the families together,” Mr. Trump said as he signed the order…
The crisis at the southern border has reached New York City, as waves of children separated from their parents have been arriving in the area. At least 106 children have been sent to shelters in New York, the office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, which had confirmed the number with six of the nine shelters…