Several of the accusers featured in the Lifetime documentary series “Surviving R. Kelly” expressed fear and anguish at the R&B singer’s belligerent interview this week defending himself against years of sexual abuse allegations, saying Thursday that they could not watch the entire interview because Kelly’s anger reminded them of his alleged abusive behavior toward them. […]
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) is backing the Green New Deal. On Monday the moderate Long Island Democrat told HuffPost he plans to add his name to the nearly 70 House Democrats co-sponsoring the sweeping resolution that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) released last Thursday. “Rep. Suozzi supports the Green New Deal,” […]
President Donald Trump dismissed Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House oversight committee as “a fake hearing” on Thursday. Trump also criticized the scheduling of the hearing, which took place at the same time as his summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He called the timing “a terrible thing.” “They could have made it two days […]
When the New York City Football Club takes the pitch at Yankee Stadium, sections 235 through 238 are reserved for the team’s most loyal fans. There, amid a sea of light-blue NYCFC apparel, the banners, the drummers, the tifos, the organized chants and songs, and the face-painted fanatics, you’ll find another, less welcome fixture: far-right […]
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied to federal investigators multiple times, breaching his plea deal, a judge ruled on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson agreed with special counsel Robert Mueller’s assessment that Manafort, 69, violated the terms of a plea deal, willfully lying multiple times to the FBI and federal investigators. “Therefore, the […]
One day after three top Democratic presidential candidates defended Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over charges of anti-Semitism, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) issued a noticeably different statement that seemed to admonish Omar, equating the congresswoman’s comments with a virulently Islamophobic poster displayed in the West Virginia Capitol that linked Omar to the Sept. 11 attacks. “Those […]
PARADISE, Calif. ― It has been more than three months since California’s deadliest wildfire burned the rural town of Paradise to the ground, but in many ways, it looks as though it happened just yesterday. Miles of houses are gone, trees blackened and bare standing over gray heaps of rubble and ash, the occasional scorched […]
The publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is accused of going on a drunken verbal rampage in its newsroom Saturday night in which witnesses say he threatened to “burn the place down” and “close the whole paper.” John Robinson Block, the vice chairman of Post-Gazette owner Block Communications Inc., is facing a federal labor complaint over […]
John Dean, the former attorney for President Richard M. Nixon who was dubbed the “master manipulator” of the Watergate scandal by the FBI, noticed one thing Republican lawmakers didn’t do on Wednesday. As they questioned Michael Cohen, the disgraced former attorney for President Donald Trump, “they didn’t defend the president,” Dean told CNN’s Don Lemon. “What […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) fired back at a conservative writer who called on people to boycott Girl Scout Cookies because of the freshman lawmaker’s past membership in the organization. Former sportscaster Jane Chastain, 76, also criticized the Girl Scouts for a partnership with International Women’s Day, which falls on Friday, in her column for fringe right-wing website WND […]