President Donald Trump weighed in Monday on a series of controversial tweets sent by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), saying the freshman lawmaker should be “ashamed of herself” for the comments some have called anti-Semitic. “I think it was a terrible statement, and I don’t think her apology was adequate,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force […]
President Donald Trump is reportedly already dreaming up nicknames for his 2020 election challengers. The president has been workshopping potential labels within the West Wing and in conversations with confidantes, sources close to Trump told The Associated Press. It doesn’t stop there. The president is also reportedly looking for ways to wound his opponents by exploiting […]
President Donald Trump appears to be doing his level best to distract Americans from the upcoming testimony of his former fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen. Details of what Cohen plans to say in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform emerged late Tuesday, and it was not a good look for the president, […]
WASHINGTON ― Democrats this week announced new legislation that would slash child poverty by paying low-income parents the kind of monthly allowance that is standard in other developed countries. But the lawmakers who introduced the bill, called the American Family Act, didn’t use the terms “child benefit” or “child allowance” at their Capitol Hill press […]
A heckler with a scathing message for President Donald Trump interrupted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during his campaign rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Thursday night. “Tonight, we say to Donald Trump and the fossil fuel industry …” the 2020 presidential candidate began. “Fuck you!” a man in the crowd at the Mid-America Center shouted. The […]
Demetra Nyx is taking a unique approach to breaking down period taboos. This past summer, the 26-year-old sex coach from Los Angeles began smearing her menstrual blood on her face every month. Nyx explained in a recent Medium article that she put her period blood on her face on a whim while creating a video about […]
The members of former American rock band R.E.M. have made it crystal clear how they feel about President Donald Trump’s sharing of a meme mocking Democrats, which featured one of their most iconic songs. Trump shared the video, which was set to the group’s 1992 hit “Everybody Hurts,” on Friday. It poked fun at the […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina lottery says a single winner has stepped forward to claim the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot from a drawing last October. A lottery commission statement says the person submitting the claim for what was the second-largest lottery in U.S. history has chosen to remain anonymous. It adds that […]
Donald Trump boasted on Monday, without offering any evidence, that his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump had created “millions of jobs.” “My daughter has created millions of jobs. I don’t know if anyone knows that, but she’s created millions of jobs,” the president said in a speech to the National Governor’s Association at the White […]
Samantha Bee explained how Fox News, during the Trump era, has “grown from a simple old-fashioned propaganda factory into a new kind of state television.” Bee noted on Wednesday’s “Full Frontal” that the conservative network’s bias toward President Donald Trump’s administration “isn’t exactly a big secret.” In fact, she said, it is now “arguably as […]