A few days before alleged gunman Robert Bowers murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue last October, he promoted a post by a well-known racist user of Gab, a social media platform that caters to white supremacists. The user had a “Pepe” frog avatar and a distinctly offensive moniker — “Grandpa Lampshade,” a reference to […]
R&B singer R. Kelly, accused of serial sexual predation and abuse, tried to silence one of his accusers, Faith Rodgers, by making threats against her reputation and character, she said. “It just validates the monster that he is,” Rodgers said in an interview on “CBS This Morning” that aired Tuesday. “I realize that’s his defense. […]
Nearly half of Americans have no confidence “at all” in President Donald Trump, according to a new poll that also reported negative reviews of both parties’ lawmakers. The ABC News-Washington Post poll, released on Monday, found that 48 percent of respondents polled from Jan. 21 to 24 have no confidence “at all” in Trump, while […]
Michael Cohen reportedly hired an IT company to create a fake Twitter account and post fawning tweets about him. And that’s exactly what the @WomenForCohen feed did. It repeatedly called Cohen — a former fixer and lawyer to President Donald Trump who was in December sentenced to three years in prison for crimes involving lying to […]
RICHMOND, Va. ― Virginia has had one of the craziest weeks in state politics. First, the Democratic governor had to explain why there was a photo of two person, one dressed in Ku Klux Klan garb and the other in blackface, on his medical school yearbook page. Now the lieutenant governor is trying to get […]
NEW YORK ― Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has launched an exploratory committee to begin raising money for a possible 2020 presidential campaign, she said Tuesday during an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” “I’m filing an exploratory committee for president of the United States ― tonight!” Gillibrand told host Stephen Colbert, eliciting cheers from […]
Former President Barack Obama has a way with words. He tweeted a touching birthday tribute to Michelle Obama on Thursday, and many people on Twitter are celebrating the love. Obama posted the love note to the former first lady on her 55th birthday, along with a throwback photo of the couple. “I knew it way back […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) described President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address as “sort of like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Schumer told John Berman, host of CNN’s “New Day,” on Wednesday that there was “very little nice to say about” the president’s speech to the joint session of Congress. “The president was […]
After an incredibly contentious hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Friday Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was spotted at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman noted the sighting on Twitter. People who responded jabbed — nervously — at the too-close-for-comfort situation of the man who could conceivably fire […]
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (Ore.) is the fourth and latest Democrat to announce plans to skip President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. “The thought of spending Tuesday night in the House Chamber listening to the reckless, self-centered man who occupies the White House holds no interest for me,” Blumenauer said in […]