Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has come up with a novel defense of President Donald Trump: It’s all about consistency. “The president doesn’t tell the truth about a lot of things fairly consistently,” Santorum said on “Anderson Cooper 360″ on Wednesday, adding: The unusual approach appeared to catch the other members of the CNN panel […]
President Donald Trump re-emphasized the need for border security at a rally Monday night, saying his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is necessary for Americans’ safety because “walls save lives.” Using his backdrop of El Paso, Texas, as his example, Trump argued that a wall along the southwestern border is critical to national security. […]
By Walter Suza As a child, I remember feeling hungry most of the time. Growing up in rural Tanzania, I walked to school barefoot and most of the time had one meal a day. After school, I helped my mother with various farming chores, including feeding the animals, weeding, harvesting and planting. I often heard my […]
Veteran journalist Dan Rather has joined the growing chorus of criticism over the 47-month sentence that U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III handed to President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, on Thursday. Rather railed against “the lightness of the sentence” on Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” calling it “a straight […]
On the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students and staff on Thursday remembered the 17 people who were killed. Photos show a memorial set up outside the school, where visitors paid respects and left flowers and rocks adorned with messages. See the latest photos from […]
Time magazine’s new front page depicts Donald Trump’s possible challengers in the 2020 election peering through the Oval Office window at the president. The caption for the Mar. 4 issue reads: “Knock, knock … ” The publication’s cover story is titled “The Biggest Field Yet. No Frontrunner. A Divided Base. Welcome to the 2020 Democratic […]
Carrie Ann Lucas — an attorney and well-known disability rights activist best known for pioneering representation for parents with disabilities — died Sunday at the age of 47 in her hometown of Windsor, Colorado. According to her obituary, which was posted to her Facebook page, Lucas died due to complications that occurred “after an arbitrary […]
Eric Holder blasted President Donald Trump for his criticism of Democrats’ behavior during a hearing for acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, asking whether he’d lost his mind. On Saturday, the president griped that lawmakers on the left “were vicious and totally showed their cards for everyone to see” while Whitaker was grilled by the House […]
Most American all-star games are relatively unwatchable (we’re looking at you, Pro Bowl) but throw someone like Stephen Curry in the mix, and you’re at least gonna have some fun. In the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday night, Curry bounced a ridiculous pass over the head of defender Kevin Durant and into the waiting hand […]
Dennis Rodman’s attempts at basketball diplomacy continue. The NBA Hall of Famer on Wednesday shared a fawning letter he wrote to President Donald Trump ahead of his summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam — which was abruptly cut short after the pair failed to reach a nuclear agreement. Rodman — who […]