Politics
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has supported more of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees than the other Democratic senators running for president as well as some three-quarters of her Democratic Senate colleagues. Although she was one of the most outspoken critics of Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch during their nomination processes, Klobuchar, […]
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday called on the House to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. “The Mueller report lays out facts showing that a hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election to help Donald Trump and Donald Trump welcomed that help. Once elected, Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into that attack,” the […]
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A few weeks after the New England Patriots won their sixth Super Bowl in February, Florida prosecutors charged Patriots owner Robert Kraft with two counts of soliciting a prostitute at the Orchids of Asia day spa, a massage parlor in Jupiter, Florida. In headline-grabbing press conferences that sent shockwaves around the sports world, the prosecutors […]
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Erik Prince lied to someone. The only question is who. The unofficial Trump campaign adviser testified under oath before the House Intelligence Committee in late 2017 about a meeting he had with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, in the Seychelles on January 11, 2017. At the time, Prince described the meeting […]
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Now that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report has been released, congressional Democrats have a potentially perilous choice to make: Should they seek the immediate impeachment of President Donald Trump? Or should they close ranks and wage an all-out effort to beat him next year at the ballot box? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority […]
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued guidance Friday that could prevent green card holders from becoming U.S. citizens if they are suspected of engaging in marijuana use — even in states and jurisdictions where it is legal. Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, and 10 states and the District […]
Read moreDemocratic presidential contenders are taking note of swelling opposition to offshore drilling in the Southeast, especially in the early primary state of South Carolina, where lawmakers are working to head off federal drilling efforts. The issue is emerging as a potentially winning topic for Democrats at a time when Republicans are increasingly divided on President […]
Read moreIn response to Washington state’s worst measles outbreak in more than two decades — 74 people have been infected so far — the state legislature moved to pass legislation to make it harder for parents to opt out of vaccinating their kids. The bill ultimately passed on Wednesday. But every Republican in the state Senate […]
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Freshman Democrats are leading the charge on impeachment talks following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. The response is in contrast with high-ranking Democrats in the House, who quickly pumped the brakes on any talk of impeaching President Donald Trump, after the report was […]
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The White House is hailing special counsel Robert Mueller’s report as a “complete and total exoneration” of President Donald Trump, even as the president launched repeated attacks against the document, calling it “total bullshit.” Trump tweeted on Friday that the “Crazy Mueller Report” was full of “total bullshit” statements about him. “This was an Illegally […]
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