Despite public outcry, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) re-signed a proclamation Thursday declaring July 13 as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in the state, honoring the Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and former Confederate general. Each year, according to state law, the governor is supposed to sign six such proclamations for days of observation, three of […]
Alexander Acosta is out as labor secretary, President Donald Trump told reporters Friday. Click Here: Sports Water Bottle Accessories His resignation followed a wave of new information about the alleged crimes of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, for whom Acosta helped broker a sweetheart plea deal more than a decade ago. Trump said it was Acosta’s […]
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) devoted nine tweets last week to blasting Nike over its decision to stop selling shoes featuring an early version of the American flag that has at times been used as a symbol for white supremacists. This week, Ducey’s mood apparently changed. Nike announced Thursday it would open a facility in Goodyear, Arizona, which […]
Mayor Pete Buttigieg, whose campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination has struggled to find traction among black voters, unveiled a plan Thursday to tackle systemic racism nationwide. Dubbed “The Douglass Plan,” after African American writer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, it is comprised of a series of broad goals — spanning health care, education, criminal justice, […]
President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee have chosen a fundraising system that profits a former White House staffer and a company invested in by Jared Kushner’s brother ― passing over a cheaper platform that already has contracts with thousands of GOP candidates and committees. “I am pleased to announce the launch of http://tmagac.winred.com. This […]
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) expressed some regret Wednesday over his vote to confirm Alex Acosta, President Donald Trump’s embattled head of the U.S. Department of Labor. The conservative-leaning Democrat was asked in a CNN interview about the controversy surrounding Acosta, who as a federal prosecutor had once cut a sweetheart plea deal with accused sex-trafficker […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday peddled the baseless conspiracy theory that conservatives’ social media engagement is being limited by social media platforms in some nefarious plot to silence them politically. The president didn’t provide a shred of evidence when he told a room full of conservative influencers, bigots and conspiracy theorists at his White House […]
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday calling for the cancellation of raids reportedly planned by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) that would take into custody thousands of undocumented migrants. The lawsuit, filed in district court for the Southern District of New York, argues that the majority of undocumented immigrants facing […]
Quebec’s education minister is facing criticism for tweeting a photo of himself with Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai after his government banned public employees from wearing headscarves like hers. Education Minister Jean-François Roberge then further enraged critics by tweeting that, if the 21-year-old educational activist were to teach in Quebec, she would not be able […]
Former first lady Michelle Obama let her guard down over the weekend, recalling in an interview how Secret Service security shaped the lives of her daughters, Sasha and Malia. The omnipresent security detail when Barack Obama was president spanned first kisses and sleepovers at friends, she said. And parents of those friends faced some intimidating […]