President Donald Trump is planning to visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday to promote his proposed border wall. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced the visit Monday on Twitter: Details may be announced later, but the snark from Twitter users started immediately. Of course, people had questions. Lots of questions. Some brought up […]
“Star Wars” star Mark Hamill has been a relentless critic of President Donald Trump on Twitter. He’s repeatedly called out Trump’s plan to build a wall along the Mexican border and mocked POTUS for failing to get Mexico to pay for it as he promised during the 2016 presidential campaign: But on Thursday, Hamill discovered a […]
A judge on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of Jazmine Headley, 23, whose 1-year-old son was ripped from her arms by police while she waited for a child care voucher at the Human Resources Administration office in Brooklyn. Judge Craig Walker of Brooklyn described Headley’s arrest as “horrific” and ordered for her to be released […]
Stephen King suggested Wednesday exactly what President Donald Trump should do with the money he wants to spend on a U.S.-Mexico border wall. And the bestselling horror author didn’t mince his words: King proposed Trump scrap his “vanity project” and “do something good for once” ― by instead splashing taxpayer cash on “at-risk children who […]
A professional ballroom dancer who had to have part of her left leg amputated following the deadly Boston Marathon bombings is in the hospital after being struck by a car. Adrianne Haslet shared a photo on Instagram showing herself lying in a hospital bed Sunday after being hit Saturday while crossing a street in Boston. […]
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman didn’t hold back on his scathing criticism of Donald Trump on Friday, calling him a “disturbed” president who lies so often that “no one trusts this man.” “If we face a crisis with a president who no one believes who’s surrounded by a C-team in a dysfunctional […]
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled in favor of BuzzFeed in a defamation lawsuit over the infamous Trump dossier the outlet published last year. In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro cited the “fair report privilege” in siding with the news outlet against the plaintiff, Cyprus-based CEO Aleksej Gubarev. Gubarev had sued BuzzFeed in February for […]
At former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s sentencing hearing on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan asked federal prosecutors if they had considered charging Flynn with treason for advocating sanctions relief for Russia after failing to disclose his meetings with the Kremlin’s ambassador. Sullivan, who made the comments while expressing outrage at Flynn’s crime […]
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have missed their first paycheck of the year due to the ongoing partial government shutdown as President Donald Trump remains no closer to ending a stalemate over his border wall with Democrats. Pay for about 800,000 government employees lapsed nearly three weeks ago, and Friday marks the first wave […]
CNN’s Jim Acosta claimed Tuesday night that President Donald Trump’s Oval Office address “probably should have come with a surgeon general’s warning.” “It was hazardous to the truth,” Acosta, the cable network’s White House correspondent, told “Cuomo Prime Time” host Chris Cuomo. “There were a number of claims that the president made in that speech […]