A federal judge denied a request to force the government to pay federal workers during the ongoing partial government shutdown. Judge Richard Leon on Tuesday refused to issue a temporary restraining order requested last week in two lawsuits filed by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) and the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). The […]
The youngest woman to ever serve in Congress, 29-year-old Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has zoomed into the social media stratosphere. She accounted for more Twitter interactions in a month than the top five media companies combined, according to CrowdTangle data, reports Axios. Attacked or dismissed by the men of the Republican Party (and some Democrats), Ocasio-Cortez’s […]
A school superintendent in Indiana is facing fraud charges after she allegedly used her health insurance to purchase medicine for a sick uninsured child at her school. Casey Smitherman, of Elwood Community Schools in Elwood, was booked Wednesday on two counts of insurance fraud, one count of official misconduct and one count of identity deception […]
President Donald Trump on Friday lashed out after his longtime confidant Roger Stone was arrested as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump’s tweet repeated his claim that the investigation is a “Witch Hunt” and appeared to make a reference to a conspiracy theory spread by former Fox News […]
Jan 29 (Reuters) – Power provider PG&E Corp filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, succumbing to liabilities stemming from wildfires in Northern California in 2017 and 2018. The owner of the biggest U.S. power utility has filed a motion seeking court approval for a $5.5 billion debtor-in-possession financing, it said in a […]
Rosie O’Donnell doesn’t think President Donald Trump will be seeking re-election in 2020. “I certainly do not. I think he’ll be arrested,” the TV personality, who’s been engaged in a war of words with Trump for more than a decade, told TMZ on Wednesday. “I believe in America and I believe in our political system, […]
Jim Carrey responded to Friday’s two biggest political news stories in typical artistic style. The actor-comedian commented on President Donald Trump’s backing down from his call for Congress to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall ― and his temporary reopening of the federal government ― with this cartoon: “NANCY SCORES!” he captioned the image, which […]
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D), rejecting President Donald Trump’s claims of an immigration crisis, said she would withdraw most National Guard troops deployed at her state’s southern border. “New Mexico will not take part in the president’s charade of border fear-mongering,” Lujan Grisham declared Tuesday shortly before Trump’s State of the Union address, adding that she rejects […]
Bill Maher agreed on Friday that America needs to build a wall. But not the barrier that President Donald Trump is advocating on the U.S.-Mexico border. Instead, the “Real Time” host said the country should construct “a sea wall” to combat climate change “because the ice is melting and rising oceans are going to swallow Miami.” […]
Racist Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) invoked the message of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when responding to a constituent’s praise over the weekend. A voter named Pamela called the congressman “proud and talented” at Saturday’s town hall event in Primghar, King’s first since facing a backlash for asking how the terms “white […]