Before a gathered crowd of supporters in Lawrence, Mass., Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced her candidacy for president, framing her campaign as a “fight of our lives.” “This is the fight of our lives. The fight to build an America where dreams are possible, an America that works for everyone,” …
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President Donald Trump has once again lost the support of conservative commentator Ann Coulter after he agreed to reopen the government temporarily without getting funding for his border wall. After Trump announced the news on Friday, Coulter tweeted what a wimp Trump was. Later that night, she was interviewed by …
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Update: The special counsel’s office has released a statement in response to Buzzfeed’s report: “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” wrote special counsel spokesperson Peter Carr. Original text …
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The Department of Homeland Security may have separated “thousands” more children from their families than previously reported, according to a new report conducted by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services.“More children” children were separated “over a longer period of time” than previously believed, Ann Maxwell, …
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President Trump on Tuesday night addressed the nation from the Oval Office for the first time since assuming the presidency two years ago this month. The topic was border security, particularly the president’s belief that the only way to achieve it is through the construction of a literal wall separating …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the youngest woman elected to the House of Representatives, has been the target of several conservative smear campaigns — including attacks on her pro-working-class agenda (she dared to grow up in a single-story house!) to “Sandy,” her suspiciously Anglophone teenage nickname. (To think a Puerto Rican …
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Cyntoia Brown was only 16 when she was sentenced to life in prison, and the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled this past week that she will have to serve 51 years before she could be eligible for release. Brown was convicted of murder and robbery for killing 43-year-old Johnny Mitchell Allen …
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