While the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress spent the last year making repeated attacks on the nation’s healthcare system and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 2017 saw the largest single-year jump in the uninsured rate since that law was implemented in 2010. According to the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index, released on Tuesday, more than three […]
On the heels of a bombshell revelation detailing President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to fire special counsel Robert Mueller last June, Foreign Policy reported Friday night that Trump launched an effort to “discredit” FBI officials last year “after learning that those specific employees were likely to be witnesses against him” in Mueller’s Russia probe. “At […]
Richard Painter, the former chief ethics lawyer for the George W. Bush administration, is expected to announce on Monday he will run as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate seat previously held by Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart FrankenPolitical world mourns loss of comedian Jerry Stiller Maher to Tara Reade on timing of sexual assault allegation: […]
Republican Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward’s campaign paid former White House aide Sebastian GorkaSebastian Lukacs GorkaAppeals court blocks White House from suspending reporter Sunday shows preview: As states loosen social distancing restrictions, lawmakers address dwindling state budgets FBI director in ‘hot seat’ as GOP demands reforms MORE $5,240 to appear at an event, according to FEC […]
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) eight-hour marathon speech in defense of Dreamers on the House floor Wednesday garnered much applause and favorable media coverage, but Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) argued that Pelosi’s impassioned remarks will amount to nothing more than “a nice gesture” if she fails to push House Democrats to vote down the […]
At an “openhearted talk” in Pyongyang, North Korea on Monday night, the nation’s leader Kim Jong Un reportedly told a South Korea delegation that he is willing to halt nuclear and missile tests during diplomatic discussions with the United States, a move that may bring members of the Trump administration to the negotiating table. “North […]
As Texans headed to the polls Tuesday to take part in the nation’s first statewide primary of 2018, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)—who will likely face Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke in the general election in November—expressed concern in a radio interview that a massive surge in turnout from “the extreme left” could place GOP control of […]
Amid concerns that his administration wants to move more aggressively to privatize the healthcare system that provides for the nation’s active and retired military personnel, President Donald Trump took to Twitter later Wednesday afternoon and announced—following weeks of speculation that he was itching to do so—the ouster of Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin. In […]
In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s original campaign against poverty that kicked off 50 years ago next month, leaders of the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) on Tuesday announced plans to revive Dr. King’s radical moral vision with mass action nationwide and unveiled a series of ambitious demands aimed at combating the economic, […]
King County, Wash., prosecutor Dan Satterberg, who was elected as a Republican, said on Tuesday that he is now a Democrat, The Seattle Times reported. The three-term prosecutor for the Seattle-area county noted that the change is partly because he is facing his first reelection challenge this year. His opponent, public defender Daron Morris, called […]