Fox News host Laura Ingraham ranted about “minority privilege” as she attacked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for criticizing her on Twitter. Ocasio-Cortez wrote last week that Fox News had “crossed a line beyond conservatism and into outright bigotry” with its financing of Ingraham and fellow host Tucker Carlson. Ingraham in response railed against what she described as […]
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) is losing popularity among his state’s voters after a racist photo from his medical school yearbook resurfaced last week. Morning Consult measured a 19-point drop in Northam’s approval rating between surveys conducted before and after the photo went public on Feb. 1. In a survey of Virginia voters throughout the […]
President Donald Trump’s fast-food banquet for Clemson University’s national championship football team didn’t cut the mustard with restaurateur Nick Kokonas, co-owner of Chicago’s three-star Michelin eatery Alinea. So, he invited the players and coaches to tour and eat at four of his Alinea Group’s restaurants “to experience what an actual celebration dinner should be,” reports the […]
Coal giant Murray Energy cut ties with its longtime lobbying firm shortly after President Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Andrew Wheeler, the firm’s former lobbyist, to be the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator. The country’s largest privately held coal producer, run by the bombastic coal baron Bob Murray, appears to have ended its relationship with Wheeler’s […]
With the end of President Donald Trump’s partial government shutdown, Democrats were finally able to get started on their legislative agenda on Tuesday. That meant Democrats and Republicans could get back to disagreeing about basically everything — beginning with the litany of voting rights, campaign finance and ethics reforms in the Democrats’ first major bill […]
George Anthony’s recent brush with death apparently softened his heart when it comes to his estranged daughter, Casey Anthony, who stood accused several years ago of murdering her child in a widely publicized case. George Anthony, appearing on “The Dr. Oz Show” on Monday, said he forgives his infamous daughter for everything. “I would just […]
President Donald Trump has made his disdain of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, amply clear. He’s lambasted the decades-old alliance as “obsolete,” erroneously accused other members of owing the U.S. money and even came close last summer to threatening to withdraw America from the alliance if other members didn’t increase their defense spending. […]
UPDATE: 2:45 p.m. Jan. 21 — More footage has emerged of the viral moment between a Native American man and a white teenager, complicating perceptions of the incident. Please see the updated story here. PREVIOUSLY: A group of teens wearing “Make America Great Again” hats harassed a Native American Marine veteran during Friday’s first Indigenous […]
Former White House photographer Pete Souza resurfaced an old “State of the Union” photograph to remind President Donald Trump how the address before a joint session of Congress should play out. Souza shared a 2014 snap of then-President Barack Obama being greeted by then-Vice President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker John Boehner to Instagram […]
Roger Stone, an eccentric longtime Republican strategist with a tattoo of Richard Nixon’s face on his back, was arrested early Friday on criminal charges that include obstruction of an official proceeding, false statements and witness tampering. A federal grand jury impaneled by special counsel Robert Mueller charged Stone in a seven-count indictment. FBI agents arrested him at […]