Celebrity chef José Andrés, famous for providing free meals to disaster victims, will be serving food to a new population in need: U.S. federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown. Starting Wednesday, Andrés’ nonprofit World Central Kitchen will have a kitchen set up near the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., […]
Michigan State University interim President John Engler resigned Wednesday at the request of the school’s board of trustees, just days after he said some of the survivors of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse were “enjoying” their moment in the “spotlight.” In an 11-page letter to the board, Engler said he would step down as of Jan. […]
Democratic voters’ singular goal in picking a presidential nominee in 2020 is the defeat of President Donald Trump, overriding ideological concerns and policy disagreements, according to a new poll released Monday. The survey, conducted by New Jersey’s Monmouth University, asked Democratic voters and Democratic-leaning independent voters nationwide if they preferred a candidate with whom they […]
By Max Blau ATLANTA — On a brisk morning in mid-December, Valencia Hicks was running late to the Fulton County courthouse in hopes of avoiding eviction. The 43-year-old mother had been forced out of her home the year before, a process that had uprooted her family from their apartment in East Point, Georgia. At her […]
President Donald Trump urged Democrats on Friday to return to Washington to vote to fund his proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. And in the process, he came up with a strange new nickname for the barrier. “This is where I ask the Democrats to come back to Washington and to vote for money for […]
Rappers Travis Scott and Big Boi have officially joined headliner Maroon 5 as halftime entertainment at Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, the NFL confirmed in a Twitter post on Sunday. Talk of who would perform at the Feb. 3 game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium had been ongoing for months, with reports that several artists had refused requests […]
Click:wps官网 Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may have revealed a huge secret about Donald Trump. No, not about Russian collusion, silly, but why the president wears such long ties. For some reason, Trump likes to wear his ties down to his fly. The bizarre sartorial choice has inspired both Twitter parody pages and speculation among experts […]
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer gave his unique take on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address during a live online broadcast for conservative BlazeTV. And, well, people had thoughts. Spicer occasionally slurred his words as he struggled to make a coherent point about Trump campaign aide Katrina Pierson, proclaimed his love […]
The Justice Department reversed its position in a closely watched voting rights case on Tuesday, telling a panel of federal judges Texas shouldn’t have to clear its voting changes with the federal government despite its history of intentionally discriminating against voters. The filing came in a Texas gerrymandering lawsuit, Abbott v. Perez, and has big […]
Tony Mendez, the CIA spy who led the rescue of six American hostages from Iran, inspiring the Oscar-winning film “Argo,” died Saturday. He was 78. The news was announced on Twitter by Mendez’s literary agent, Christy Fletcher, who called it “a crushing loss for his family, friends and our world.” Attached to her tweet was […]