Two Americans and one British service member were killed during a rocket attack on a military base north of Baghdad on Wednesday. Twelve coalition personnel were also wounded. According to the AP, as many as 30 107-mm Katyusha rockets were launched from a rigged truck discovered by the Iraqi military …
Read More »FBI: Consultant for Katie Hill Likely Culprit in 2018 Cyberattack on Her Primary Opponent
The FBI on Friday filed a criminal complaint in California that sheds new light on a spree of mysterious cyberattacks that targeted Bryan Caforio, a Democratic candidate for Congress who ran for office in one of the most competitive primary elections of the 2018 midterms. The FBI’s complaint says there …
Read More »Watch Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer Get Stumped on Name of Mexico's President
Both Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer could not name the president of Mexicoduring a Telemundo interview in Nevada. But one candidate, former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, who was also interviewed by Telemundo’s Guadalupe Venegas, did recall the name of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador. “Yeah, …
Read More »Bloomberg Said Ending a Racist Housing Practice Caused Financial Crisis
In a newly surfaced video, Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg places the blame for the 2008 mortgage and financial crisis on the elimination of a racist lending policy known as “redlining.” During the 2008 housing and economic collapse, then New York City Mayor Bloomberg said the meltdown was triggered when …
Read More »Andrew Yang Suspends His Presidential Campaign — But He Isn't Going Anywhere
Right up until the end, Andrew Yang held out hope that New Hampshire would give his underdog campaign the jolt it needed. Voters there would propel him to a third- or fourth-place finish, the result he needed to continue on to Nevada, South Carolina, and beyond. Instead, Yang’s campaign ended …
Read More »Trump Charges Secret Service up to $650 a Night for a Room in His Properties
American taxpayers are paying as much as $650 per room per night for Secret Service accommodations at Trump properties while protecting the president a new report from the Washington Post has revealed. This directly contradicts President Donald Trump‘s claims that his company only charges the government minimal fees or “at …
Read More »Trump Is Irked After Loyal Republican Allies Push Back Legislatively
Mike Lee, a Republican senator from Utah, has joined forces with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders to place a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to escalate military hostilities with Iran. Lee is now a co-sponsor of legislationintroduced by Sanders after last week’s strike on Soleimani. The bill would …
Read More »None of Trump's Iran Policy Makes Sense. All of It Is Dangerous
WASHINGTON —President Trump’s speech on Wednesday about Iran‘s retaliatory missile strikes on two U.S. bases could be read in any number of ways. The mainstream papers will run with the raw news it contained: no American or Iraqi casualties from the attack, more economic sanctions on Iran, and that Iran …
Read More »WTF, America? Trump and Obama Tied for Most Admired Men, New Poll Says
Two men who couldn’t be more different, President Donald Trump and former president Barack Obama, are tied for the top spot as 2019’s most-admired man in America, according to Gallup’s annual poll. This marks the 12th time the former president has at least shared the Number One spot. Trump and …
Read More »Warren, Buttigieg Had Themselves a Real Spicy Fight Over Campaign Finance
When Elizabeth Warren officially entered the presidential race back in February, she made a controversial decision, one that ultimately caused her finance director to quit in protest: She swore off high-dollar fundraisers. Ten months later, that decision gave Warren some high ground when, on the debate stage in California, she …
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