WASHINGTON ― Anti-tobacco advocates are raising alarms about a bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) this week that would raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products nationwide from 18 to 21. While they support the overall goal of the legislation, some advocates worry that a provision […]
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, whose role is foster economic growth and job creation, did the opposite as a Sears board member, profiting from the once-mighty retailer’s downfall and costing thousands of workers their jobs, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) say. Warren and Ocasio-Cortez tore into Mnuchin Thursday in a three-minute video posted on […]
WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes President Donald Trump has committed crimes by obstructing justice, thinks his actions are impeachable, and is extremely hesitant to move forward. “Impeachment is a very divisive place to go in our country,” Pelosi told reporters Thursday during her weekly press conference. In perhaps Pelosi’s starkest terms yet, the […]
President Donald Trump ordered Thursday that Attorney General William Barr be given authority to declassify information as part of his investigation into inflammatory claims that U.S. intelligence agencies “spied” on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. “President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation […]
A federal grand jury in northern Virginia on Thursday returned a superseding indictment charging WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 18 counts related to his work with former U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning. The indictment included 17 counts of espionage, raising major questions about the First Amendment and journalism in the 21st century. Assange was arrested […]
Former president Barack Obama hung out with the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy’s after-school program on Wednesday and showed of his sports skills. America’s 57-year-old former leader looked effortlessly cool in sunglasses, a polo, and slim-fit pants, hitting baseballs like he was born to do it. Obama was appointed quarterback in a pickup football game […]
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani shared a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that had been making the rounds of right-wing media. Then, without irony, the personal attorney to President Donald Trump fired off a series of tweets on another matter that included a lecture on integrity. “What is wrong with Nancy […]
Attorney George Conway posted a wicked takedown of Donald Trump’s retort to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this week that he doesn’t “do cover-ups.” The husband of White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway simply quoted the president’s own words on Twitter Thursday, coupled with an image of the check former Trump attorney Michael Cohen said he received as […]
President Donald Trump is insisting he “was extremely calm” on Wednesday as he refused to meet with Democrats to discuss infrastructure, instead gathering reporters for a press conference to bash special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a letter to Congressional colleagues Wednesday night said Trump walked out of infrastructure talks with […]
A high school in a Chicago suburb is spending more than $53,000 to reprint its 2018-2019 yearbook after staff discovered photos inside in which students were flashing the white supremacist “OK” hand sign. Administrators at Oak Park and River Forest High School released a statement last week notifying parents that they were withholding the yearbooks […]