Hundreds of mothers surged to the White House with other protesters Saturday evening to demand gun control in the wake of the horrific mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart that killed 20 people. The powerful, spontaneous “Moms Demand Action” demonstration was one of a series of heartfelt expressions of support and sympathy from people […]
President Donald Trump once again promoted controversial British far-right commentator Katie Hopkins on Twitter Saturday morning. Trump first retweeted a video from Hopkins’ account in which she railed about violent crimes allegedly committed by migrants who’d moved to Germany. The president later shared this post in which she called for London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who is […]
Presidential hopeful John Delaney said he belongs in the 2020 Democratic primary, despite criticism that he is not progressive enough for the party. At the AFSCME forum in Las Vegas on Saturday, the former Maryland representative promptly replied “no” when asked by moderators what he would say to people who think he’s running in the wrong primary. […]
Saikat Chakrabarti, the chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) who sparked controversy earlier this summer by comparing House Democrats to Southern segregationists, is leaving her office, HuffPost confirmed Saturday. Communications Director Corbin Trent will also step down from his role. According to a statement from Ocasio-Cortez, Chakrabarti will join climate change-focused nonprofit New Consensus […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said on Saturday that she is not concerned about the power of Republicans and more conservative Democrats in the Senate to thwart her presidential campaign platform. Warren was one of 19 presidential candidates to speak at a presidential candidate forum hosted by the public-sector labor union AFSCME in Las Vegas on […]
Thanks to stricter requirements from the Democratic Party, the next presidential debates will be much smaller than the three-hour, two-night, 20-candidate circus that took place this week. Democratic candidates are preparing for the third set of debates, to be hosted by ABC News and Univision on Sept. 12 and 13 at Texas Southern University in […]
A 32-year-old man from El Salvador died Thursday at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facility in Lordsburg, New Mexico, becoming one of at least 10 undocumented immigrants this year, several of them children, who have died while in the custody of U.S. immigration officials. According to CBP, he was pronounced dead early Thursday after […]
CINCINNATI — Donny Hedge, a 42-year-old lineman from Eaton, Ohio, smoked a cigarette Thursday while waiting to get inside U.S. Bank Arena for his first ever campaign rally for President Donald Trump. No, he said, there’s no way the president is racist. “Look at the support he’s got just from other races. If he was […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un launched three missile tests in eight days, but President Donald Trump isn’t worried — even though Europe and South Korea are. He tweeted Friday that Kim “will not disappoint his friend, President Trump.” He also assured the public that Kim will “do the right thing.” Trump acknowledged that the […]
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley called out President Donald Trump on Friday for reveling in a burglary at the home of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.). “This is so unnecessary,” Hayley, who resigned from Trump’s administration last year, tweeted at the president hours after he escalated his attacks against Cummings and his majority-black congressional district, […]