Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took aim at fellow presidential candidate Joe Biden’s support of the Hyde Amendment on Wednesday, slamming the abortion funding restriction as an attack on underprivileged women that had been “wrong for a long time.” “Here’s how I look at this: I’ve lived in an America where abortions were illegal. And understand this: […]
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot continued Wednesday to push for reducing the city’s government corruption, which was most recently on display with a federal indictment against one of the most powerful aldermen. “As public servants, each and every one of us has a duty to operate within the highest of ethical standards as we represent the […]
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday he had changed his opinion on impeachment and now believes it is the right time for the House to begin an inquiry into President Donald Trump. Reid, who retired in 2017 after a 30-year stint in the Senate, told USA Today it was important to give Americans […]
A federal judge this week cited the First Amendment in tossing criminal charges against three members of a neo-Nazi organization accused of conspiring to assault their ideological opponents, handing the government another defeat in its struggle to curtail white supremacist violence. Robert Rundo, Robert Boman and Aaron Eason, all members of the violent white nationalist group […]
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, who was convicted of multiple federal crimes, is being moved to Rikers Island in New York City, one of the most notorious jails in the country, where he could face solitary confinement. Earlier this year, Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years for crimes […]
WASHINGTON ― Republicans are once again debating whether to stand up to President Donald Trump on trade, setting up another potentially explosive fight between the president and his party. Trump last week threatened to impose a 5% tariff on Mexican goods on June 10 if Mexico doesn’t do more to stop the growing flow of migrants […]
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is hitting back against President Donald Trump, who attacked the city’s leader ahead of his U.K. visit with a series of insults sent over Twitter. “That’s the sort of behavior I’d expect from my daughters when they were 11,” Khan told Sky News on Tuesday. “But look, it’s for him to choose […]
DENVER ― Before he goes to work every day, Tom Sullivan puts on a leather jacket that isn’t his. The jacket belongs to his son, Alex, who was murdered on his 27th birthday in 2012 when a gunman burst into the Aurora movie theater where he was watching a Batman movie and opened fire. Twelve […]
HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. ― It’s been five years since Michael Hickey, sleepless and grieving his father’s untimely death, Googled “Teflon” and “cancer” and came to the terrifying realization that his town’s water was likely poisoned. Back then, perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, was little more than a chemistry textbook tongue twister. It was also the key, […]
WASHINGTON ― A pastor’s explanation of President Donald Trump’s sudden visit to his church on Franklin Graham’s “Pray for Donald Trump Day” is casting doubt on the White House’s widely publicized claim that he went there to pray for Friday’s shooting victims in Virginia Beach. David Platt, pastor of McLean Bible Church, a few miles […]