Anita Hill says voters need to press 2020 Democrats on gender violence
Social policy and law professor Anita Hill said Tuesday that voters should press Democratic presidential candidates on how they will tackle the issue…
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Fact check: Trump made at least 21 false claims in angry Cabinet monologue
President Donald Trump delivered a blistering and rambling monologue to the journalists he allowed into his Cabinet meeting for more than 70 minutes…
Continue Reading An organization bought billboards to remind voters of Election Day. The signs had the wrong dates.
Vote.org was trying to get out the vote in Mississippi but a printing mix-up meant the billboards were telling potential voters the wrong dates. The…
Continue Reading McConnell introduces resolution opposing US withdrawal from Syria
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republican senators introduced a resolution Tuesday in opposition to President Donald…
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Exclusive: Defense secretary says troops in Syria will ‘temporarily’ go to Iraq before returning to US
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that American troops ordered out of northern Syria will “temporarily” go to Iraq before they…
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El Paso City Council seeks to strip Sam Morgan of Alternate Mayor Pro-Tem role after abuse arrest
EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso City Council member said Monday that he will be seeking to strip City Rep. Sam Morgan of his Alternate…
Continue Reading A humiliating night for Justin Trudeau
By any stretch of the imagination, Justin Trudeau, the steward of the family brand, had a humiliating election night. Not only was Trudeau’s…
Continue Reading Jimmy Carter hospitalized after fall at Georgia home
Former President Jimmy Carter has been admitted to the hospital after falling in his home in Plains, Georgia, Monday night. Carter was admitted to…
Continue Reading The complete and utter weirdness of Hillary Clinton’s attack on Tulsi Gabbard
It’s hard for anything to come truly out of left field in a political world in which Donald Trump is the President of the United States. And…
Continue Reading Obamacare premiums are dropping 4% for 2020 plans
The Affordable Care Act is looking stronger for 2020 — and the Trump administration is claiming credit for it, even as officials try to upend…
Continue Reading Trump calls impeachment inquiry a ‘lynching’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday called House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry a “lynching,” employing a term associated with the…
Continue Reading How to understand Trump’s perverted version of history
President Donald Trump’s taste for history is moving in new and awkwardly divergent directions as he faces the twin challenges of an…
Continue Reading Donald Trump’s history on race makes his ‘lynching’ comment crystal clear
On Tuesday morning, the President of the United States described the impeachment investigation against him as a “lynching.” This is not…
Continue Reading Democrats now have a real chance at winning the Senate in 2020
The political world’s focus on the possible impeachment of President Donald Trump by the House has obscured a critical shift in the battle for…
Continue Reading Reckoning with the specter of lynching in the Trump era
Two things can both be true at once: White nationalism pervades the Trump era (from marches to mass shootings to the White House). And: We’re…
Continue Reading Trump vents fury at impeachment probe with key witness due to testify
An agitated President Donald Trump on Tuesday branded the Democratic impeachment process a “lynching” shortly before a crucial new…
Continue Reading CNN Poll: 50% support impeaching Trump and removing him from office
Half of Americans say President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, a new high…
Continue Reading How religion widens the partisan divide
The religious and cultural divide between Democratic and Republican voters is widening, pointing toward even greater partisan polarization and social…
Continue Reading The 41 most out-there lines from Donald Trump’s Cabinet meeting
On Monday, President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting. And, as often happens in these meetings, he spent the first half of the gathering…
Continue Reading Major Trump donor plans private fundraiser with Romney
Stephen Schwarzman, an informal adviser and donor to President Donald Trump, is hosting a fundraiser with Sen. Mitt Romney in support of several…
Continue Reading Amash: Republicans wish they weren’t ‘trapped’ into defending Trump
Rep. Justin Amash said his Republican colleagues are caught in an untenable position trying to defend President Donald Trump as the controversy…
Continue Reading Elizabeth Warren has a real opportunity to make this right
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s silence on how she plans to pay for Medicare for All has turned into a problem at an important moment in her campaign.…
Continue Reading Here’s who is scheduled to be deposed in the impeachment inquiry this week
The House’s impeachment inquiry is in full swing this week and investigators have several high-profile individuals from across the State…
Continue Reading Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she never stopped working out during pancreatic cancer treatment
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience in California on Monday that even after she was diagnosed for the fourth time with cancer, she never…
Continue Reading Tulsi Gabbard’s Clinton clash sparks speculation about her political future
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s clash with 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has suddenly thrust her struggling 2020 presidential campaign into the…
Continue Reading Here’s the craziest thing about the Trump White House’s quid pro quo with Ukraine
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged in a news conference Thursday that the US withheld military aid from Ukraine in hopes of…
Continue Reading Washington Post: Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister disparaged Ukraine to Trump
President Donald Trump’s urging of Ukraine’s President to investigate political rivals coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Continue Reading Bernie Sanders defends Tulsi Gabbard: ‘Outrageous’ to suggest she is a foreign asset
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday defended his fellow 2020 hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii against the claim that…
Continue Reading First on CNN: Environmental group files SEC complaint about mining company stock trades days before major EPA announcement
An environmental group on Monday called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate possible insider trading involving a mining company…
Continue Reading Romney’s Pierre Delecto mask is a symbol of Never Trumpers’ problem
As the Republic of Venice slowly slid into the 18th century, its economic power was waning while military threats piled up all around it. Inside the…
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