Casualties of War: General Motors warned that another round of import tariffs could make cars sufficiently more expensive to force the company to scale back production and lay off workers. GM said that a new round of tariffs considered by …

Deadline Shooting: Five people were killed yesterday in a shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md. A suspect was arrested. He is described as a 38-year-old local man with a grudge against the paper. One of the dead was …

Right Turn: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the swing vote between four conservatives and four liberals, announced that he’s going to retire, potentially giving President Trump and the Republicans a replacement appointment that will shape court decisions for decades. On …

As Goes New York: Primary votes in seven states yesterday resulted in a shocker in New York where 28-year-old political rookie Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat 10-term Democratic Rep. Joseph Crowley, who was considered a candidate for Speaker of the House if …

Catch and Release: In a tacit admission that immigration policy isn’t so easy as big talk, Customs and Border Protection  announced that it is backing away from President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy of detaining illegal immigrants and returning to the …

Let Them Eat Cake: While being driven to his golf course in Virginia yesterday, President Trump tweeted a call for illegal immigrants to be deprived of due process and sent immediately back. He wrote, “We cannot allow all of these …

Separation from Reality: President Trump yesterday trotted out families of people murdered and killed by illegal immigrants in an effort to draw sympathy away from the thousands of children separated from parents who entered the country illegally . “They are …

Summer Kamp: Just a day after President Trump announced he would keep detained immigrant families together, The NY Times  reported that the Pentagon is under orders to prepare for housing up to 20,000 unaccompanied children on military bases in Texas …

Babies in Cages: It took crying babies from South America to get President Trump to back down for the first time in his presidency. Yesterday Trump signed an executive order ending the policy of separating detained illegal immigrants from their …

Tender Age: Babies and immigrant children under the age of 12 are being held in four of what the government calls “tender age” facilities in South Texas, the Associated Press reports. Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio …