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 […]

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,” […]

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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) evoked a scene from the U.S. version of “The Office” to mock a billboard in Times Square that attacks her. Early Thursday, the freshman lawmaker used a Twitter thread to hit back at the ad, which was paid for by the conservative Jobs Creator Network and criticized her disapproval of Amazon’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A white man who spewed racial epithets before and after a shotgun attack on three black men amid the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison. Roland Bourgeois Jr., 56, sat quietly in a wheelchair as U.S. District Judge Mary Ann […]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other lawmakers appeared to set the stage for House Democrats to further investigate President Donald Trump’s business dealings and subpoena his tax returns during a hearing with his former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen. Cohen spoke at length with lawmakers on the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday […]