Month: May 2019

While hard-line Republicans have pushed back against progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over their Green New Deal resolution, the New York Democrat has found herself an unlikely new ally: a supporter of President Donald Trump. In a series of tweets on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez said she saw a man and his teenage son putting up a…

President Donald Trump came up with a nickname Friday for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg: Alfred E. Neuman — the freckle-faced, gap-toothed nerdy cover boy of Mad Magazine. But Buttigieg came back with his own zinger, slying dinging the 72-year-old president’s age, saying the outdated reference was a “generational thing.” Trump told Politico Friday that “Alfred E….

Law professor Anita Hill took to the pages of the New York Times on Thursday to rue America’s missed opportunity to effectively address sexual harassment and violence in 1991 during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, presided over by then-Sen. Joe Biden. It’s an opportunity that remains missed to this day, she wrote. The editorial was a slam…

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West announced Friday on Twitter that they have welcomed their fourth child, a son, via a surrogate. Click Here: “He’s here and he’s perfect!” Kardashian wrote about the newborn. A tweet that vague can easily be repurposed for all sorts of jokes, which is exactly what the Twitterverse did. So congrats to Kanye…

KERMIT, W.Va. ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) outlined her plan to tackle the opioid epidemic during a campaign stop Friday in a small West Virginia town where many attendees were just happy to see a politician show up. Kermit, with a population of 400, has been held up as an example of the nation’s opioid…

Nearly 110,000 people in public housing could face eviction under a newly proposed Trump administration rule ― and about half of them are children who are legally allowed to live there, the Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged Friday. HUD’s new rule is meant to target families with mixed-citizenship status who are receiving housing…

In the wake of the Mueller report’s release, Trump administration officials asked former White House counsel Don McGahn to publicly declare the president never obstructed justice, according to multiple reports on Friday. McGahn, one of the key witnesses in the special counsel’s report, refused Trump’s request in part because he didn’t want to comment on…

In March of 2018, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office blasted out a press release announcing the indictments of three people in southern Texas for serious election and voting-related crimes. It was one of several press releases his office sent that year trumpeting arrests and indictments connected to voting misconduct. Paxton’s announcements often made headlines,…

After being a mainstay on NBC’s “SNL” for nearly 16 years, Kenan Thompson is finally stepping into the network’s primetime spotlight.  NBC announced Friday that it was picking up a single-camera family comedy titled “The Kenan Show,” written by Jackie Clarke and due out next season. Thompson stars as a newly widowed father who is now…

Turning Point USA, a nationwide organization of student Republicans with more than 1,000 chapters, has an institutional problem with white supremacy and bigotry. Just after midnight on Friday, the group announced that it had canned its University of Nevada Las Vegas chapter leader, identified as Riley Grisar, after a video surfaced depicting him and a…