Robert Reich | How McConnell Is Killing the Senate

17 April 19

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17 April 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News YOU OUT THERE, WE NEED YOUR ATTENTION TO DONATIONS! Come on, folks; no donations, no RSN. It’s simple. Help out. Look at the progress bar on the site. That is where we’re at. Got to get busy on this. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Robert Reich | How McConnell Is Killing the Senate Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blob Reich writes: "Congress has recessed for two weeks without passing a desperately-needed disaster relief bill. Why not?" READ MORE A boy walks on rubble of a house after it was destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa. (photo: Reuters) Dismay as Trump Vetoes Bill to End US Support for War in Yemen Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK Pilkington writes: "Donald Trump has vetoed a bill passed by Congress to end US military assistance in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen." READ MORE The fire at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame began about 6:30 p.m. Monday. (photo: Thibault Camus/AP) ALSO SEE: Crowdfunding to Rebuild Notre Dame After Fire Hits $1 Billion Doubts Rise Over Macron's 5-Year Plan to Rebuild Notre Dame Thomas Adamson and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny, Associated Press Excerpt: "Nearly $1 billion in donations have poured in for the vast restoration of the fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral - but a pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron that it will be completed within five years was facing accusations of being wildly off track." READ MORE ICE agents make an arrest. (photo: Getty Images) ICE Has Second Thoughts About Deporting the Widower of Fallen War Veteran Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress Entralgo writes: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week deported the husband of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan, but just days later the agency reversed course." READ MORE President Barack Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to historian David Brion Davis in 2014. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) David Brion Davis, Pulitzer-Winning Historian Who Reshaped Study of Slavery, Dies at 92 Harrison Smith, The Washington Post Smith writes: "That slavery is now seen as a defining thread of American history - the subject of great literature and art, as well as of a heated political debate over reparations in the 2020 Democratic primary - is in large part the achievement of Dr. Davis, who wrote more than a dozen books and scores of articles in a half-century career." READ MORE A Colombian soldier looks at the bodies of FARC rebels killed in combat in La Plata, Huila province, July 12, 2002. (photo: Reuters) Colombia: FARC Party Denounces 128 Killings of Ex-Militants teleSUR Excerpt: "Colombian Senator Victoria Sandino is demanding the government give urgent attention to the murders of ex-combatants of the demobilized Marxist guerrilla group, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) 'who have reached their limit,' after the Monday murder of a seven-month-old boy and son of a former militant." READ MORE Scientists measured airborne microplastic particles in the French Pyrenees. (photo: Max Pixel/CC) Airborne Microplastic Particles Are Being Found on Some of the World's Most Remote Places Brooks Hays, UPI Hays writes: "Microplastics are everywhere. The tiny plastic particles have made their way to Earth's poles, to the bottom of the deepest ocean trenches and now to the peaks of French mountains." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation