While the mainstream media continues to pretendthat President Trump’s white supremacy is debatable, the same can’t be said for Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the most racist man in Congress for almost 20 years. On Thursday, the New York Times published a story fleshing out King’s anti-immigrant history, which includes a …
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Minutes after Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reclaimed the House speaker’s gavel on Thursday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she would be holding an impromptu press briefing, giving reporters approximately five minutes to prepare. The press corps scrambled to fill the room, and about 10 minutes …
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Though Trump’s decision to shut down the government may keep him in Washington for the holidays, it won’t keep taxpayers from footing a heavy portion of the bill for Mar-a-Lago’s New Year’s Eve party. As was noted by Quartz this week,government spending data shows that the Secret Service paid Grimes …
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On Friday, prosecutors for the Southern District of New York filed a sentencing memo for Michael Cohen. In recommending a “substantial” prison term for the president’s former lawyer-fixer, the SDNY wrote that Trump directed Cohen to make pre-election hush money payments to two women that constitute felony campaign finance violations. …
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“May I say something you’re not going to like? I think the press loves him. All day on TV — and I don’t even watch TV, except sports. But he says somebody had a horse face — all day we hear about that. We hear about Kanye West, all day. …
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Publicly, President Trump says he doesn’t believe the CIA or the FBI when they tell him Vladimir Putin fucked with the 2016 election. He also says he doesn’t believe the CIA when they tell him the Saudi crown prince ordered the murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. For Trump, …
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Amid all the drama of the 2018 midterms, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders cruised to re-election Tuesday night, securing a third term in the Senate with an easy 66.1 percent of the vote. In a year in which longtime Senate incumbents on both sides of the aisle were either unseated or faced …
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TALLAHASSEE — At 10:50 p.m. Tuesday night outside Lee Hall on Florida A&M University’s campus, Democrat Andrew Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, stepped to the microphone. Florida’s first-ever black nominee for governor gave a gracious, hopeful concession speech to a devoted group of supporters after it became apparent that Republican …
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Mary Jennings “MJ” Hegar has overcome a lot of conflict in her life. The Round Rock, Texas, native faced sexual abuse in the military and domestic abuse at home before becoming an Air Force pilot, serving three tours in Afghanistan. When her helicopter was shot down by the Taliban in …
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After weeks of obfuscation and changing narratives, Saudi Arabia claimed that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a fistfight in the Saudi Consulate and said it had arrested 18 people in connection with his death. President Donald Trump told reporters he believed their explanation during a media availability atLuke Air Force …
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