GOP Rep. Mark Walker (N.C.) received swift backlash on Twitter Thursday for his purported attempt to denounce racist remarks aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) by saying he “struggled” with them. The congressman addressed President Donald Trump’s Wednesday night campaign rally in North Carolina, at which the president’s supporters chanted “Send her back!” referencing Omar, a black Muslim American congresswoman […]
Documents unsealed in federal court Thursday lay out the beginning of a federal investigation into Michael Cohen that sent the Donald Trump fixer to federal prison, and further indicate that Trump was closely involved in hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election. Cohen, the president’s former longtime attorney, began his three-year prison sentence in […]
Comedian Jon Stewart and activist John Feal ripped into Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Mike Lee (Utah) for stalling a bill Wednesday that would expand a compensation fund for first responders of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. “The people from the state of Kentucky and the people from the state of Utah deserve much […]
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Mark and Nancy Dawson think Muslims should be removed from the United States. The couple drove an hour and a half from Seaboard, North Carolina, for Wednesday’s campaign rally for President Donald Trump. They arrived early, setting up some lawn chairs in the shade of a tree as temperatures climbed toward 100 […]
CNN announced the lineups Thursday for the second round of Democratic primary debates, scheduled to take place on July 30 and 31 in Detroit. Read the lineups below. Night 1: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg Former Rep. John Delaney (Md.) Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) Click Here: Sports […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A-list celebrities seem to be opening their hearts — or at least their wallets — to Pete Buttigieg. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor was a virtual unknown months ago. But he used breakout town hall performances, viral moments and his biography as a millennial, gay military veteran and a former Rhodes scholar […]
Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday she would never accept the Supreme Court’s ruling last month that federal courts can’t do anything about excessively partisan gerrymandering. Kagan’s comments came as she discussed a fiery dissent she wrote for the minority in Rucho v. Common Cause, the closely watched gerrymandering case the Supreme Court decided on June […]
On Sunday, a 16-year-old didn’t open the door when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers came to her family’s home in Passaic, New Jersey. Agents first knocked at 1 a.m., claiming they were looking for someone who didn’t live there, and then came back around 5 a.m., demanding to be let in. The teenager, who was […]
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) said Tuesday that he was not offended by President Donald Trump telling four congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came.” Kelly, who is white, argued he too is “a person of color.” “They talk about people of color. I’m a person of color,” […]
When Elizabeth Warren came to Washington — not the first time, as a bankruptcy expert, or the second time, to oversee the bank bailout during the Great Recession — but the third time, when she was elected to the United States Senate, she wanted to solve a growing problem: student debt. During her campaign, against […]