The National Rifle Association’s longtime advertising agency said it will no longer represent the gun group as the company faces a lawsuit from the NRA. Ackerman McQueen, which has worked with the NRA since the 1980s and more recently created the dedicated streaming outlet NRATV, announced Wednesday it was severing ties, The Wall Street Journal […]
Iconic feminist Gloria Steinem said “the only male human being” she’d vote for in the 2020 presidential election is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D). “Mayor de Blasio is among my top four choices for president and the only male human being who is on that list,” Steinem said at a Tuesday news […]
WASHINGTON ― Robert Mueller on Wednesday encouraged Americans to read his special counsel report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and reiterated his office’s position that, while President Donald Trump could not be charged with a crime while in office, that doesn’t amount to an exoneration. “If we had confidence that the president clearly did not […]
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) defended his calls for impeachment proceedings to begin against President Donald Trump, telling his supporters that Congress has a duty to “keep the president in check,” regardless of their political affiliation. “I’d do it whether it was a Republican president or a Democratic president. It doesn’t matter. You elected me to […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hit back at a minor league baseball team that depicted her as an “enemy of freedom” in a Memorial Day tribute clip by revealing a regular morning ritual she goes through to ensure her safety. The lawmaker on Tuesday responded to a controversial video that the Fresno Grizzlies aired at Chukchansi Park with […]
A French mother and daughter are suing the state for failing to ward against air pollution they say caused them both serious respiratory problems in the first ever such case to come to court. The pair asked for €160,000 (£140,000) in damages from the state at the administrative court of Montreuil in the east of Paris […]
A federal judge blocked on Friday President Donald Trump from building sections of his long-sought border wall with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency. US District Judge Haywood Gilliam, Jr., on Friday immediately halted the administration’s efforts to redirect military-designated funds for wall construction. His order applies to two high-priority projects to replace […]
The only Republican challenging Donald Trump for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination has warned the president will “get as good as he gives” in what could be a bruising encounter. Bill Weld, the former Massachusetts governor, vowed to hit back hard if the US president resorts to targetting him on Twitter. Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph […]
Buoyed by his party’s resounding success in the European elections, Matteo Salvini threw down the gauntlet with Brussels on Tuesday, demanding that the EU relax its spending rules for member states. The deputy prime minister, whose League party emerged as by far the strongest political force with 34% of the vote, said he was determined […]
Serbia has put its military on alert after more than 20 people in Serb-dominated areas of Kosovo were arrested and 11 injured during raids by police special forces. Two members of the United Nations mission to Kosovo, a local and a Russian citizen, were also detained but released and hospitalised after outcries in New York […]