Trump Notches His 200th Lifetime Federal Judge
WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans on Wednesday confirmed President Donald Trump’s 200th lifetime federal judge, a number higher than any president…
Noose Found In Garage Used By NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace Was There In 2019: FBI
The noose found in the garage stall used by NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama, on…
What Matters: How #BlackLivesMatter could survive Trump’s taunts
From the corporate embrace of Black Lives Matter to actions by NASCAR — of all the sports leagues — and…
Kentucky And New York Hold Primaries Amid Concerns About Polling Site Closures
The coronavirus pandemic has given way to a host of rationalizations for limiting access to polling sites across the country,…
Police Pepper-Spray Protesters Trying To Pull Down Andrew Jackson Statue In DC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters tried to pull down a statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House Monday night…
The South Has Some Of The Nation’s Dirtiest Electricity. Now It’s Seeing A COVID-19 Uptick.
The Southeastern United States faces deadly heatwaves, catastrophic hurricanes and rising seas that have already sent entire communities fleeing for…
New York, Kentucky among 6 states bracing for voting on Tuesday
Just two weeks after Georgia’s messy day at the polls, another six states are testing the waters of voting during…
Geoffrey Berman refused to sign DOJ letter criticizing New York’s Covid restrictions
Attorney General William Barr wasn’t aware of the dispute, and it had nothing to do with the ouster of Berman,…
House Judiciary chairman says he plans to subpoena attorney general
The ranking Republican on the committee, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, said in a letter obtained by CNN that the…
McEnany defends Trump using racist term to refer to coronavirus
Asked why Trump has used racist phrases, including “kung flu”, McEnany said Monday: “The President doesn’t. What the President does…
Longtime congressman at risk of losing seat to newcomer
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) is in danger of losing his congressional seat to first-time political candidate Jamaal Bowman in New…
So, what if Trump *was* joking about coronavirus testing?
“When you test — when you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people. You’re going to…
Trump says he told his people too much coronavirus testing puts US at ‘disadvantage,’ contradicting staff
That explanation of his Saturday night rally comment comes after several White House officials asserted that the President was speaking…
Brianna Keilar confronts Trump campaign official: Are dead Americans funny to you?
CNN’s Brianna Keilar confronts Trump 2020 campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh about President Donald Trump’s recent comments about coronavirus testing…
Juneteenth Will Be An Official Holiday In New York City Starting In 2021
Juneteenth, which marks the effective end of slavery in the United States, will become an official holiday in the country’s…
Robert E. Lee Statue Sleeps With The Fishes In Jim Carrey’s New Cartoon
Of the Confederate general, Carrey wrote: “Here’s to finding a more appropriate place for Robert E. Lee.” The “Kidding” star…
After Weeks Of Anticipation, Trump Rally Crowd Underwhelms
President Donald Trump addressed an enthusiastic — though smaller than expected — crowd of supporters at a campaign rally in…
Investing In Harm Reduction Must Be Included In The Movement To Defund Police
When police respond to 911 calls about people experiencing homelessness or mental health crises, the results can be lethal. As…
2 Lawyers Of Color Face 45-Year Sentences — For Vandalism
In a high school English assignment in which students were asked to describe themselves as a metaphor, Colinford King Mattis…
Russian Frigate With Gleaming, Brand New Weapons Systems Joins Chinese Naval Parade!
Subscribe to Vesti News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa8MaD6gQscto_Nq1i49iew?sub_confirmation=1 The Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov led a … source
Malawi's president Mutharika to appeal court decision for fresh polls
Malawi’s president Peter Mutharika will challenge the Constitutional Court’s decision to nullify results of the 2019 presidential election, his spokesperson…
Susan Rice Explains Exactly Why Donald Trump’s White House Is ‘Racist To Its Core’
Former national security adviser Susan Rice on Friday delivered a damning assessment of the Trump White House’s record on race,…
Juneteenth Brings Anti-Racism Protesters Out From Coast To Coast
Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19, marks the day enslaved African Americans in Texas learned of their emancipation in 1865.…
John Bolton book: Judge hears arguments over publication
“The horse, as we used to say in Texas, seems to be out of the barn,” Judge Royce Lamberth of…
Democrats aim to undermine Trump’s pitch to black voters with Tulsa rally counter-programming
Democrats at the national and state level are launching a coordinated counter-programming offensive on Friday, ahead of President Donald Trump’s…
President Trump's bad run keeps getting worse
With mounting coronavirus concerns for his upcoming Tulsa rally, two major Supreme Court losses and his former national security adviser…
Juneteenth, ‘Atlanta’ and the challenges of allyship
America is reckoning with allyship. One way to parse the current political moment is via Donald Glover’s surreal and sophisticated…
Trump’s presidency is in a tailspin. His reelection may survive it.
Trump has endured one of the most disastrous political streaks of any modern commander-in-chief and appears to lack a coherent…
President Trump threatens protesters ahead of Tulsa rally
Writing on Twitter, Trump lumped together “protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes” and said they would not be afforded what…
Charles Booker Suddenly Has Progressives Excited About Kentucky
As recently as a month ago, Kentucky’s Democratic Senate primary was a sleepy affair. Former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath…
Jennifer McClellan Could Make History As Virginia’s First Black Female Governor
Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan (D) is jumping into the race for governor, saying the state is at a “critical…
Supreme Court Rules Trump Wrongly Ended DACA, Leaves Program In Place
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, will remain in place, keeping nearly 650,000 undocumented young people safe…
Nancy Pelosi To Remove Portraits Of Confederate House Speakers From U.S. Capitol
WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday ordered the immediate removal of portraits in the U.S. Capitol of…
What we learned from John Bolton’s eye-popping tale of working with Trump
Bolton described a conversation between the two world leaders at the June 2019 G-20 meeting in Osaka, Japan, where Trump…
Boy Scouts Of America Will Require Eagle Scouts To Earn New Diversity Badge
The Boy Scouts of America says it will require aspiring Eagle Scouts to earn a new “diversity and inclusion” merit…
Congress Could Make Juneteenth A National Holiday
Congress hasn’t created a new holiday since 1983, when it made one for Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Now some…
Virginia Governor To Propose Juneteenth As State Holiday
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that he will propose making Juneteenth — a day that…
Ilhan Omar Isn’t Done Fighting
As a Black Muslim woman, and one in the public eye, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is a frequent target of…
Jimmy Carter’s charity urges ‘painful but necessary reflection’ after Rayshard Brooks’ death in Atlanta
“The death of yet another African American man, Rayshard Brooks, at the hands of police in Atlanta last week once…
Something shocking happened to Republicans in West Virginia last week
Any time you see that sort of wipeout less than six months before a major national election within the President’s…
Defense secretary says Pentagon official who questioned legality withholding Ukraine aid to resign
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Elaine McCusker will resign effective June 26, Esper said in a statement. “Since joining…
GOP senator: Proposal to remove Confederate names from military bases ‘picks on South unfairly’
Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican whose state has military installations named after leaders of the Confederacy, sharply criticized the…
'Distressing': Reverend reveals what evangelicals say privately about Trump
Reverend Rob Schenck, a former evangelical activist, discusses President Trump’s photo-op after police forcibly moved protesters and what evangelicals are…
CIA cyber weapons stolen in historic breach due to ‘lax security’, internal report says
The hacking tools stolen in the breach, which occurred in 2016, came from its clandestine Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI).…
Donald Trump isn’t *really* interested in police reform
But even as he was speaking, Trump made it crystal clear that he viewed the order as a necessary bit…
Lawyers sue to stop Trump’s Tulsa campaign rally over coronavirus fears
In addition to the lawsuit, the attorneys are requesting a hearing to ask for an emergency temporary injunction to prevent…
Trump administration sues Bolton over book dispute
The suit, filed in Washington, DC, federal court, alleges that Bolton’s 500-plus page manuscript was “rife with classified information,” and…
CDC report offers a detailed demographic breakdown of who is getting sick with coronavirus
The latest figures confirm that older people, minorities and those with preexisting health conditions are at the highest risk of…
'Ridiculous logic': Cooper reacts to Trump's remark
CNN’s Anderson Cooper calls out President Trump over comments he made about coronavirus testing. Source link
Why will no one in the White House wear a mask?
In Iowa on Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence stopped at a diner named “Sally’s Restaurant” to greet people. He did…
Pence tweets photo of Trump reelection campaign
New Day Vice President Mike Pence tweeted a photo showing a crowd of President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign staff not…
Mike Pence falsely claims coronavirus cases in Oklahoma are on the decline
“In a very real sense they’ve flattened the curve,” Pence said of Oklahoma. “The number of cases in Oklahoma has…
Pence tries to declare coronavirus over as Trump pushes reopening and campaigning
“We may be done with the pandemic, but the pandemic is not done with us,” Dr. Ashish Jha, director of…
Trump offers full-throated defense of police in executive action signing
But later he veered from that topic and that tone to assault his political rivals and tout the stock market’s…
Ex-prosecutor calls Trump’s police reform a ‘slap in the face’
CNN Right Now President Trump signed an executive order incentivizing police reform after multiple black Americans were recently killed at…