Click:api 6d ball valve President Donald Trump and his campaign and the Republican National Committee filed a pair of lawsuits on Tuesday challenging a new California law that requires all presidential and gubernatorial candidates to publicly release their tax returns in order to appear on the state’s primary ballot. The action comes about a week after […]
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren racked up a second well-received Democratic presidential debate performance last week, a set of new HuffPost/YouGov surveys finds. Half of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters who saw at least clips of her during the debate said they came away with an improved view of Warren. Fewer than a third said the same […]
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg expressed concerns Saturday that the U.S. is “under attack” by white nationalists carrying out mass shootings — and those white nationalists have been encouraged by President Donald Trump. Buttigieg was one of 19 Democratic presidential candidates speaking at a forum in Las Vegas sponsored by the public-sector labor union AFSCME. During the event, […]
President Donald Trump’s biggest legacy may be remaking the federal judiciary largely in his own image: white and male. Since taking office nearly two and a half years ago, Trump has won confirmation of two Supreme Court justices, 43 appeals court judges and 99 district court judges ― an extraordinary feat in which he has vastly […]
President Donald Trump named the wrong Ohio city in a Monday speech about two mass shootings over the weekend — and the Democratic mayor of Dayton, which lost at least nine people to gunfire in one of the massacres, called him out. Trump’s remarks came in response to the two deadly mass shootings that occurred over […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that he’s asked three GOP leaders to discuss bipartisan solutions to gun violence after two mass shootings over the weekend collectively left at least 31 people dead. The Kentucky Republican, who is notorious for blocking bipartisan legislation, said he’s spoken to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Senate […]
A top climate scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture has resigned in protest of what he describes as the Trump administration’s efforts to censor and suppress climate science. In a Politico article published Monday, Lewis Ziska, a plant physiologist with more than two decades of experience working for USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, said he […]
President Donald Trump spoke to the nation Monday after at least 31 people died in mass shootings in two separate cities over the weekend. Trump called for unity and swift action. He also called on the country to stamp out racism and hatred and fight the dark corners of the internet where such ideologies are […]
What a difference flattery makes. Donald Trump on Friday hailed his fired White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as “one of my best pupils” — a year after the president lashed him as “Sloppy Steve” who was “dumped like a dog.” Trump’s dramatic turnabout came after Bannon, on CNBC Friday, talked up Trump’s chances of […]
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke on Saturday blamed Donald Trump in part for the deadly El Paso shootings that killed 20 people because he said the president’s “racism” leads “to violence.” O’Rourke attacked the president when he was asked by an ABC News reporter if Trump had any responsibility for the violence in El Paso. “Yes,” […]