Michelle Obama celebrated a Baltimore step team on Twitter, hours after President Donald Trump unleashed an attack on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and his majority-black Baltimore district in a series of tweets on Saturday. The former first lady shared on Twitter a 2017 video of herself with the Lethal Ladies step team from Baltimore. “On #NationalDanceDay, […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday praised the NAACP for supporting the impeachment of President Donald Trump and took a jab at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over her reluctance to do so. The 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful addressed the annual NAACP convention in Detroit at the same time a House panel conducted a hearing […]
In a lengthy investigative report that The New Yorker published on Monday, the journalist Jane Mayer suggests that Al Franken got a raw deal when he was pressured to resign from the Senate in January 2018 amid claims of sexual misconduct. And she goes further, declaring that Franken’s resignation without an investigation shows how, in the Me […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A same-sex couple in Georgia said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the U.S. State Department is unconstitutionally refusing to recognize their daughter’s rightful American citizenship. The State Department’s policy treats married same-sex couples as if their marriages do not exist and treats them differently from married straight couples in violation of […]
Bernie Madoff wants a favor from Donald Trump: He’s asking the president to reduce his 150-year prison sentence. The 81-year-old Ponzi schemer has filed a petition for clemency with the Department of Justice. He’s seeking not a complete pardon, just a reduced sentence, according to FoxBusiness.com. Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 crimes in 2009 that were […]
Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committee. Click Here: bape jacket cheap Mueller has vowed to keep his testimony limited to the contents of his report, which was released to the public in April with some information redacted. Ahead of Wednesday’s hearings, the Department of Justice […]
Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated insistence that former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was a “total exoneration,” Mueller on Wednesday confirmed it was not. In an exchange between him and House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Nadler asked directly whether the report totally exonerated the president. “No,” Mueller said. “It is not what the […]
President Donald Trump said Robert Mueller did a “horrible” job in both his testimony before two House committees on Wednesday and during his special counsel probe into Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian election interference. Speaking to reporters outside the White House after the hearing, Trump once again dismissed the special counsel’s investigation as a “ridiculous […]
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wants to relieve student debt for 42 million people — an estimated $640 billion in loans held by mainly middle- and lower-income Americans. The Massachusetts senator and the House majority whip, Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), introduced the Student Loan Debt Relief Act on Tuesday. The bill would eliminate student debt entirely for 75% of […]
In her first speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) urged lawmakers to improve health care for veterans living with post-traumatic stress disorder. Sinema, who was sworn in as a senator in January, shared the story behind the Sgt. Daniel Somers Network of Support Act, which she introduced in May. Somers was an Army […]