Politics

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

WASHINGTON — Some Americans still feel the need to witness history in person. When Andrew Johnson became the first president to be impeached in in 1868, a first-hand account was the only account. Radio was still 30-odd years away from being invented, television another 30 after that, and anyone who …

WASHINGTON —Seventy-seven days. Beginning with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s formal announcement of an impeachment investigation in late September, it took 77 days for the House to produce articles of impeachment resulting from President Trump’s shakedown scheme with the Ukrainian government. House Democratic staffers worked through the night to put the finishing …

Democratic candidate and former vice president Joe Biden got into a feisty exchange with a voter at a town hall in Iowa following his endorsement by John Kerry on Thursday, calling an attendee a “damn liar” and challenging him to a push-up contest. “We all know Trump has been messing …