Top Democrats say they fear that an independent presidential run in 2020 by billionaire former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz would serve mainly to siphon off enough voters from the Democratic nominee to help hand President Donald Trump a second term. “I do share that concern, if he did run… it would provide Trump with his […]
Pacific Gas and Electric, the power company blamed for sparking several devastating wildfires in California in recent years, announced Monday it will file for bankruptcy later this month. The company is facing billions of dollars in claims related to November’s Camp fire, which destroyed nearly 19,000 structures and killed at least 86 people, as well […]
Congressional Democrats, empowered by their new House majority, introduced legislation on Wednesday that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. It’s incredibly significant, both in symbolism and in effect. It’s a clear sign of how far the Democratic Party has moved — and how it’s moved toward smart, powerful economic policymaking. It […]
CNN’s Don Lemon examined the scandals engulfing Virginia’s top three elected officials on Wednesday night — and explained why he believes they are each using President Donald Trump-style tactics to preserve their positions. The “CNN Tonight” host noted how Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) and Attorney General Mark Herring (D) were currently embroiled in blackface […]
Neomi Rao, President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, once called race a “hot, money-making issue” and suggested women who are raped while they are drunk should bear some responsibility for their attacks, according to BuzzFeed. The comments were discovered […]
A Florida woman faces charges after she allegedly killed her boyfriend last summer, cut up his body and then lived with the corpse pieces in a recreational vehicle until late December. Authorities on Friday arrested Penny Pospisil, 47, and charged her with second-degree murder and abuse of a dead human body, according to station WFTV in Orlando. Investigators […]
President Donald Trump had little to say with regard to Tuesday’s reported attack on “Empire” star Jussie Smollett, which Chicago police are investigating as a possible racist and anti-LGBTQ hate crime. At a Thursday press conference at the White House, April Ryan, Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, asked the president about the alleged assault, […]
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) used an analogy about keeping “bad people” and “critters” out of his house to defend President Donald Trump’s proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. In an interview on Tuesday with MSNBC’s Katy Tur, Kinzinger questioned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) earlier assertion that the wall was “immoral.” “I mean, we look […]
Over more than two years, story after story has demonstrated that President Donald Trump is compromised. Just in the past 10 days, it has been reported that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into the president, Trump’s campaign manager shared internal polling data with a suspected Russian agent, Trump sought to conceal details of his […]
BOSTON (AP) — Wilson Menashi palmed a squid in his left hand and extended his arm into an aquarium tank, watching as a giant Pacific octopus stretched out arms to greet him like a friend. Freya latched some of her 2,240 suction cups onto Menashi’s arm, using their powers of taste and smell to gather […]