Chelsea Clinton was attending a New York City memorial for the victims of the Mosque shooting in New Zealand when a college student came up to her and criticized Clinton for remarks she made on Twitter a few weeks earlier directed at Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Omar had been …
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It appears as though the divorce is final. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday and blasted former ally and extreme right-winger Ann Coulter. Trump reverted back to a tried and true diss method of his that has come to signal there is no going back–the dreaded demeaning nickname. …
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The two police officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark while he was unarmed will not face criminal charges. In a statement on Saturday, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said the officers “acted lawfully under the circumstances.” Schubert said the officers, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, who shot …
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Legal challenges to President Trump’s national emergency declaration are starting to pile up. Days after multiple advocacy groups filed lawsuits challenging the president’s “national emergency,” 16 states have sued the Trump administration over the president’s scheme to use executive privilege to build a border wall without the approval of Congress. …
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Actor Don Cheadle hosted Saturday Night Live this week, and one of the stories to come out of the show was not from the sketches but from Cheadle’s wardrobe choices between skits, which he used to make powerful political statements. When introducing musical guest Gary Clark Jr. for the second time, Cheadle …
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On Thursday night, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, wrote a blog post accusing American Media Inc.,of blackmail and extortion. Last month, the National Enquirer (owned by AMI) published a sprawling expose of Bezos’ affair with Lauren Sanchez, including salacious text messages, which ultimately led to …
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President Donald Trump‘s firing of FBI Director James Comey triggered an FBI investigation as agents feared the president was working on behalf of the Russian government, theNew York Timesreported late Friday, citing law enforcement and others familiar with the investigation. This new reporting reveals that the investigation into Trump was …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took a break from clapping back against conservatives on Twitter to sit down for a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper. The freshman congresswoman’s appearance on America’s highest-rated news program, which aired Sunday night, was the first extra-Internet opportunity for Ocasio-Cortez to broadcast some of her …
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The Dow Jones Industrial Index fell more than 400 points on Monday morning, continuing a downward trend, despite efforts by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to calm investors’ nerves. In an unusual move, Mnuchin made a series of phone calls on Sunday to six banks to make sure they had enough …
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President Trump announced on Wednesday that ISIS had been defeated in Syria and that there was no longer any reason for American troops to be stationed there. Trump had spoken before about his desire to bring troops out of Syria, but the tweet announcing the decision came as a shock. …
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