Thousands of foreign nationals are waiting south of the U.S.-Mexico border to claim asylum. The backlog is a direct result of the Trump administration’s efforts to clamp down on burgeoning asylum claims. Approximately 13,000 people are on waiting lists to claim asylum in the U.S., an Associated Press investigation found. The AP determined the amount […]
Talk About a City of Stoners!: Denver Voters Approve Decriminalization of ‘Magic Mushrooms’…
Voters in Denver approved the nation’s first referendum on decriminalizing hallucinogenic mushrooms Tuesday. Though it took election officials until Wednesday afternoon to tabulate the vote, 50.6 percent of the 176,000 voters picked “yes,” and 49.4 percent voted no. The voters endorsed a change in Denver law that will require police to make arresting people for […]
Three-Year-Old Migrant Boy Found Crying and Alone in Texas Cornfield…
Border agents have found a three-year-old migrant boy crying and alone in a Texas cornfield near the U.S.-Mexico border with just a phone number and his name written on his shoes. The little boy was discovered in the early hours of Tuesday morning in a field in the Rio Grande Valley, which runs along the […]
Heavily-Armed Men Filmed Escorting Migrants Across the Border…
2018 Midterms a Voter-Turnout Bonanza, Census Bureau Finds…
The 2018 midterm elections this past November saw the highest voter turnout in a century, according to a report released by the Census Bureau. The high-water mark of 53.4% of citizens of voting age casting ballots came four years after the lowest turnout in the last four decades, when only 41.9% of eligible voters went […]