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…
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Trump Reportedly Asked Don McGahn To Say He Didn’t Obstruct Justice
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…
Texas Is Talking Tough About Election Fraud, But Here’s What It Really Looks Like
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,…
Kenan Thompson Makes It To Primetime With New NBC Comedy ‘The Kenan Show’
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…
College Republican Group Turning Point Has A White Supremacy Problem
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…
‘Spider-Man’ Cast Is Also Very Confused About This ‘Avengers: Endgame’ ‘Plot Hole’
Jimmy Kimmel’s skeptic sense was tingling when the cast of “Spider-Man: Far From Home” visited his show Thursday night. During a very amusing interview that involved Tom Holland (Peter Parker/Spider-Man), Zendaya (Michelle “MJ” Jones), Jake Gyllenhaal (Quentin Beck/Mysterio, Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill) and Jacob Batalon (Ned), Kimmel called out the cast on an apparent “Avengers:…
Parents Rally Around Teacher With Cancer Who Has To Pay For Her Own Substitute
Parents at a San Francisco elementary school are rallying around a second-grade teacher after finding out that state law requires her to pay for her own substitute while she’s on medical leave with breast cancer. Some local parents, teachers and lawmakers are now questioning whether the 1970s-era policy needs to change. “She’s an incredible teacher and…
‘Unhinged’ Reese Witherspoon Returns In Chilling ‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2 Trailer
Did we need another season of the Emmy-winning, wig-snatching, Reese Witherspoon-GIF-spawning “Big Little Lies”? Probably not. But who could resist the prospect of the critically acclaimed series returning to our TV screens with the addition of Meryl Streep, who we already know will face off against the Monterey Five and now, famously, an ice cream…
Ben Shapiro To Chairman Of Britain’s Most-Read Right Wing Magazine: ‘You’re On The Left’
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro appeared on BBC’s Daily Politics on Friday, where he went on a series of rants and lambasted conservative British journalist Andrew Neil for being “on the left.” Neil, the chairman of the right-leaning magazine The Spectator, remained composed during the entire 16-minute interview while attempting to ask Shapiro, who was there…
Uber’s Market Debut Disappoints: Most Anticipated IPO Since Facebook A Dud
May 10 (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc’s conservative initial public offering could not keep its shares from sinking in their trading debut on Friday, fueling debate on Wall Street over whether the outcome of the most anticipated listing since Facebook Inc would weigh on other Silicon Valley unicorns. Uber considered going public for at least…