MINNEAPOLIS — Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced Sunday that she will seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, entering an already crowded field of candidates looking to challenge President Donald Trump. “I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, the first woman elected to […]
President Donald Trump’s latest tweet made an odd assertion about the Constitution. Quoting Alan Dershowitz on Fox News, the Trump tweet suggested that invoking the 25th Amendment ― which has the procedures for the removal and replacement of the president ― is unconstitutional … despite actually being in the Constitution: Trump Tweeted: But CNN’s Jim […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City doesn’t want people to have their hairstyles held against them, and it has unveiled novel anti-discrimination guidelines. The city Human Rights Commission released the guidelines Monday. The New York Times first reported the guidelines and says they’re believed to be the first such measures nationwide. They enable people […]
An Amtrak passenger train that was stranded in snowy Oregon for more than 36 hours after hitting a fallen tree on the tracks is moving once again, Amtrak officials announced Tuesday. “Amtrak crews worked with local resources and the train is now enroute north to Eugene, Oregon,” Amtrak Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Scot […]
A school district in South Carolina has apologized after parents and community members expressed outrage over a field trip in which students were instructed to pick cotton while singing slave songs. Video first obtained by Fox 46 last week shows fifth-graders from Rock Hill school district picking cotton at a historical schoolhouse during Black History Month […]
President Donald Trump now says he was joking at a rally when he called on Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump on Saturday claimed he was “in an arena” at the time, telling a joke, being “sarcastic” and “having fun with the audience” when he called on Moscow to […]
President Donald Trump vowed on Friday that the total wipeout of the Islamic State caliphate would be announced within 24 hours. It has now been two days and no official proclamation has been made. Trump made the remark in the Rose Garden speech in which he declared a national emergency in an effort to gain […]
People took to the streets in cities across the country on Presidents Day to protest against President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to build his border wall. On Monday, demonstrators marched in cities from Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Austin, Texas, carrying signs declaring “Trump is the emergency” and chanting things like “Love, […]
Tony Schwartz, the co-author of President Donald Trump’s best-selling book The Art of the Deal, said Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress on Wednesday could end this presidency. Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night, Schwartz said that Cohen was planning to directly accuse Trump of criminal activity. “What we know is that it’s going […]
An 8-year-old boy hanging precariously from a ski resort chairlift was rescued by five teenage pals who used plastic netting to catch him as he fell. The unidentified boy had somehow slipped through an opening of the chairlift at Grouse Mountain in Vancouver Wednesday. His father, sitting next to him, managed to grab his arm […]