An Alabama newspaper published an editorial calling “for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again.” The editorial in the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Alabama, said the KKK “would be welcome to raid the gated communities up there,” apparently referring to where Democrats and “Democrats in the Republican Party” live in and around Washington, D.C. […]
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) warned that while Democrats have directed their ire at President Donald Trump and his policies, his predecessor Barack Obama should not avoid scrutiny. In a Politico magazine profile published Friday, Omar criticized the way Obama traded his campaign promise of “hope and change” for “bad” policies upon taking office, a common […]
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is turning up the volume on her call to impeach President Donald Trump after his failed North Korea summit, denouncing him as a “good for nothing liar.” Waters, a frequent Trump antagonist, lashed out in a fiery tweetstorm on Monday, pointing out that the president accepted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s […]
Chris Cuomo on Tuesday had some advice for Democratic and Republican lawmakers about how they should respond during Wednesday’s congressional testimony of President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. The host of CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” said those on the right should “be slow to call out things in Cohen that you ignore […]
Meryl Streep now has a grandson to go with her three Oscars. In a story first reported by Us Weekly, the 69-year-old actress’ daughter Mamie Gummer gave birth to a child fathered by her fiancé, producer and writer Mehar Sethi. E! Online said the name of the baby and the exact birthdate is not yet public. […]
Love don’t cost a thing but a gigantic diamond ring. Well, at least for Jennifer Lopez and beau Alex Rodriguez. The singer and the former New York Yankees shortstop announced their engagement Saturday night with matching Instagram posts. In it, Rodgriquez is holding Lopez’s left hand, which has a massive diamond on the ring finger. In her caption, […]
Hillary Clinton said she “can’t imagine” any circumstance in which she would run for president again in 2020 or beyond. But the former secretary of state said in the latest episode of Tina Brown’s “TBD” podcast that she won’t stay silent with her criticism of President Donald Trump, who defeated her in the 2016 election. “I’ve […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has faced a series of smears from the right, and they continued on Friday when GOP strategist Luke Thompson posted a screenshot of what he said was the email of Riley Roberts, the freshman congresswoman’s longtime boyfriend. Showing the address, which was for a government account, Thompson argued it proved Ocasio-Cortez […]
President Donald Trump’s administration may be engulfed in a slew of scandals. But they are nothing, according to “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” compared with “the worst scandal in presidential history” ― when former President Barack Obama donned a tan suit during a 2014 press briefing. Well, it was a scandal in conservative quarters, at least: […]
A juror in a high-profile New Jersey murder trial was dismissed last week after a post appeared on her Facebook page that suggested she found the situation funny. “Sitting on the jury LMAO [laughing my ass off],” the post read, according to Inside Edition. The unidentified juror, who was described by NJ.com as “a 21-year-old […]