Month: May 2019

Franklin Graham, a prominent evangelical supporter of President Donald Trump, is calling for Christians across the country to set aside this Sunday as a “special day of prayer” for the president. Graham, son of the famous American evangelist Billy Graham, told his substantial Facebook following over the weekend that this is a “critical time” for the […]

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More than a month after he officially announced he would run for president, Joe Biden has finally entered the 2020 Democratic policy wars with his fellow candidates.  On Tuesday, the former vice president and current Democratic front-runner released a wide-ranging education plan, which includes proposals his campaign contends would raise teachers’ pay and offer universal pre-kindergarten […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) ― Real estate mogul Franklin Haney contributed $1 million to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and all he’s got to show for the money is the glare of a federal investigation. The contribution from Haney, a prolific political donor, came as he was seeking regulatory approval and financial support from the government for […]

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Fox News host Chris Wallace confronted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday with the lawmaker’s own words captured on video lashing the president for ignoring a congressional subpoena. But he was talking about Bill Clinton — not Donald Trump. Graham also insisted at the time that ignoring a subpoena was an impeachable offense. Wallace told […]

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A Republican lawmaker is calling out President Donald Trump for attacking former Vice President Joe Biden and praising North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in a tweet over Memorial Day weekend.  “This is just plain wrong,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) wrote on Twitter.   Kim last week attacked Biden as a “fool of low IQ” and […]

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The fact that American workers are grappling with the loss of manufacturing jobs isn’t the fault of China but is due to the U.S. government’s failure to tap into burgeoning corporate profits to improve workers’ plights, a leading economist argued in a CNN column Sunday. “China is being made a scapegoat for rising inequality in […]

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Days after Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) told voters in Des Moines, Iowa, that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) repeatedly compared President Donald Trump to a dictator during Trump’s 2017 inaugural address, Meghan McCain on Monday asked her to “leave my fathers [sic] legacy and memory out of presidential politics.” On Saturday, Klobuchar, a 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, […]

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