Mairead McArdle

Goldman Sachs Will No Longer Take Companies Public Unless They Have at Least One ‘Diverse’ Board Member

By Mairead McArdle 2:21 PM

CEO David Solomon announced plans to implement a policy to stop financing initial public offerings of companies that have no minority or female board members.

Immigration

Trump Administration Praises Mexico for Blocking Central American Migrant Caravan

By Mairead McArdle January 23, 2020

Mexican National Guard members, some in riot gear, have blocked the caravan from advancing further into Mexico.

Elections

Technical Error Registers Hundreds of Non-Citizens as Voters in Illinois

By Mairead McArdle January 23, 2020

Since 2017, Illinois has required the state's citizens to be automatically registered to vote upon applying for or renewing a driver's license or ID card.

Energy & Environment

Mnuchin Brushes Off Greta Thunberg’s Climate Warnings: ‘Who Is She?’

By Mairead McArdle January 23, 2020

Mnuchin said Thunberg should study economics in college before lecturing the U.S. on policy.

Law & the Courts

Federal Government Backs Ohio’s Down Syndrome Abortion Ban

By Mairead McArdle January 22, 2020

The federal government on Tuesday threw its weight behind an Ohio law prohibiting abortions based on a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome.

U.S.

White Nationalists Arrested ahead of Richmond Rally Planned to Kill Gun-Rights Demonstrators to Spark Civil War

By Mairead McArdle January 22, 2020

Three alleged members of a white supremacist group were plotting to murder demonstrators at Monday's gun rights rally in Richmond before they were arrested by the FBI