September 23, 2016
President Barack Obama hailed the timing of the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Friday, signaling his desire for people of all stripes to visit the new museum and walk away with a better understanding of what it’s like to be black in America. “The timing of this is […]
September 23, 2016
Trespassing charges have been dropped against Vice News reporter Alex Thompson, Vice reported on Friday afternoon. Thompson, Vice News’ politics and policy editor, was arrested last week while trying to cover a Donald Trump event at the Omni Westside Hotel in Houston, Tex. Thompson went to the hotel and asked whether he had press credentials […]
September 23, 2016
Jill Stein didn’t get invited to the first presidential debate, but the Green Party candidate is still hoping to cause a stir. In the hours before Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take the stage, Stein and her supporters plan to hold a “Let Jill Debate” protest and subsequent “People’s Debate.” Both events are to be […]
September 23, 2016
Two months after he was booed off the stage at the Republican National Convention for snubbing his party’s presidential nominee, Sen. Ted Cruz endorsed Donald Trump on Friday. That declaration to vote for him, though, comes after the Texas senator openly disparaged his primary opponent repeatedly — in part responding to Trump’s attacks on his […]
September 23, 2016
Hillary Clinton will head to Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday, her campaign said Friday. Protests have erupted in Charlotte since Keith Lamont Scott was shot dead by police Tuesday afternoon. The outcry over yet another officer-involved killing of a black person, days after an officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shot and killed Terence Crutcher, who was […]
September 23, 2016
The State Department has found about 5,600 work-related emails relating to Hillary Clinton in a set turned over by the FBI at the end of their investigation into her private server set-up, but it appears only about 10 percent of those will be processed for release to the public in advance of the November election. […]
September 23, 2016
The White House vetoed legislation on Friday that would allow Saudi Arabia to be sued for any alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks — setting up what is almost certain to be the first veto override of Barack Obama’s presidency. Obama’s rejection of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act was well-foreshadowed; […]
September 23, 2016
Catherine Cortez Masto would be the first Latina senator if she wins the race to replace Harry Reid in Nevada. But some Republicans are nonetheless accusing her this week of “hispandering” to voters. On Thursday, two former political aides to Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) questioned Cortez Masto’s emphasis on her ethnicity, responding to a Washington […]
September 23, 2016
Kim Kardashian is “on the fence” about the presidential election and thinking about changing her vote to Donald Trump. According to comments surfaced by the Huffington Post, the reality star told Wonderland Magazine that she’s reconsidering her support for Hillary Clinton in the November election, thanks to a conversation she had with stepparent Caitlyn Jenner, […]
September 23, 2016