Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke acknowledged Sunday that his ancestors, as well as his wife Amy’s, had owned slaves. O’Rourke wrote in a post on Medium that his paternal great-great-great grandfather enslaved two women in the 1850s. His maternal great-great-great grandfather, he added, “most likely” also owned slaves. “I benefit from a system that my […]
Monica Lewinsky responded with a perfect answer to a tweet asking Twitter users about the worst career advice they’ve ever received. On Sunday, the 45-year-old replied to organizational psychologist Adam Grant’s tweet by saying that her worst career advice was that an “internship at the white house will be amazing on your resume.” Lewinsky accompanied […]
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway did not show up to testify at a hearing on Monday about Hatch Act violations for a second time, despite being issued a subpoena by the House Oversight and Reform Committee following her absence at the first hearing last month. “In defiance of that subpoena, Ms. Conway is, again, refusing to appear,” Committee […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president’s battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. According to a new rule published in the Federal Register , asylum seekers who pass through another country […]
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) took a pass on condemning President Donald Trump for racism after the Sunday twitter tirade in which the president, clearly referencing four progressive Democratic House members who are all women of color, urged them to “go back” to other countries. Three of the four ― Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts […]
A former deputy attorney general in George H.W. Bush’s administration says special counsel Robert Mueller should spell out exactly what he thinks about the findings of his investigation. “Anyone who has carefully read Volume II of the Mueller report knows that it offers a very readable account of repeated acts by the president carefully tailored to interfere with […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he’s getting reports that a nationwide crackdown on immigrants facing deportation is already underway in his city. The sweeps were expected to start Sunday, but de Blasio tweeted on Saturday that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had already taken action in New […]
Presidents Donald Trump’s urging of Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to the countries they came from on Sunday has drawn widespread condemnation, with congressional Democrats declaring his rhetoric racist, xenophobic and bigoted. There was just one thing immediately missing (beyond an apology): a rebuke from their Republican counterparts. The deafening silence came after Trump went on a […]
President Donald Trump launched an inaccurate, vitriolic attack against progressive Democratic congresswomen on Sunday, referring to them as foreign-born and telling them to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came from” In Twitter postings, Trump didn’t name anyone in his rant, though he apparently was targeting a […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday sided with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her fellow progressive freshman congresswomen amid an ongoing spat over tactics and policy with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Asked during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether Pelosi was being too tough on the freshman New York congresswoman, Sanders said, […]