New York City council member Ruben Díaz Sr. refuses to apologize for homophobic comments he made last week, despite criticism from the LGBTQ community and fellow council members. “When I get to the City Council, I find that the City Council is controlled ― most council members out of 51 council members ― over there, […]
What did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Vice President Mike Pence really talk about during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address last week? YouTube channel Bad Lip Reading has an amusing idea. The video editing wizards put words into the three politicians’ mouths with its latest spoof video, released online Tuesday. First lady Melania […]
Comedian Jon Stewart visited Capitol Hill on Monday to demand lawmakers pass legislation that would permanently finance a federal victims’ compensation fund for Sept. 11 first responders and their families. The former host of “The Daily Show,” a longtime advocate for the 9/11 responders, slammed lawmakers for not doing more to avoid a significant funding […]
The new Democratic head of the Federal Election Commission is reportedly launching a “nuclear option” to thwart Republican stonewallers on the panel battling against enforcement of campaign regulations. Ellen Weintraub told Mother Jones magazine that she will no longer vote to defend the agency against lawsuits accusing the agency of not enforcing regulations. Instead, she’s […]
When the New York City Football Club takes the pitch at Yankee Stadium, sections 235 through 238 are reserved for the team’s most loyal fans. There, amid a sea of light-blue NYCFC apparel, the banners, the drummers, the tifos, the organized chants and songs, and the face-painted fanatics, you’ll find another, less welcome fixture: far-right […]
President Donald Trump dismissed Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House oversight committee as “a fake hearing” on Thursday. Trump also criticized the scheduling of the hearing, which took place at the same time as his summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He called the timing “a terrible thing.” “They could have made it two days […]
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) is backing the Green New Deal. On Monday the moderate Long Island Democrat told HuffPost he plans to add his name to the nearly 70 House Democrats co-sponsoring the sweeping resolution that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) released last Thursday. “Rep. Suozzi supports the Green New Deal,” […]
Several of the accusers featured in the Lifetime documentary series “Surviving R. Kelly” expressed fear and anguish at the R&B singer’s belligerent interview this week defending himself against years of sexual abuse allegations, saying Thursday that they could not watch the entire interview because Kelly’s anger reminded them of his alleged abusive behavior toward them. […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) evoked a scene from the U.S. version of “The Office” to mock a billboard in Times Square that attacks her. Early Thursday, the freshman lawmaker used a Twitter thread to hit back at the ad, which was paid for by the conservative Jobs Creator Network and criticized her disapproval of Amazon’s […]
The publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is accused of going on a drunken verbal rampage in its newsroom Saturday night in which witnesses say he threatened to “burn the place down” and “close the whole paper.” John Robinson Block, the vice chairman of Post-Gazette owner Block Communications Inc., is facing a federal labor complaint over […]