Tag: David Yaffe-Bellany

The audience laughed during Trump's speech. Trump dismissed Deborah Ramirez’s sexual-misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, saying she “has nothing” because she was “drunk.” The Senate Judiciary Committee hired a female attorney to question Christine Blasey Ford at Thursday’s hearing on a sexual-assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh. Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. Senator Elizabeth Warren unveiled a major housing bill that takes aim at segregation, redlining, restrictive zoning, and the loss of equity by low-income homeowners. (Natasha Bertrand) Snapshot What We’re Reading Separate and Unequal: Georgia is “unnecessarily segregating” some black children with emotional and mental disabilities into a separate school system where the graduation rate is nearly 70 percent lower. “The kids aren’t being educated,” said one former teacher. (Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker) Who Is Rod Rosenstein? : A years-old Baltimore criminal case can help shed light on who exactly the deputy attorney general is, and if he’ll stay in his job. (Dara Lind, Vox) The Ones Who Never Came Home: In the late 19th and early 20th century, thousands of indigenous children were forcibly sent to government boarding schools. Now, the United Nations wants to know what happened to them.