Massachusetts Senator and Elizabeth Warren made another attempt to move on from the Native American ancestry issue that has, at the very least, been an ongoing distraction for the soon-to-be 2020 presidential candidate. On Friday, the executive director of Cherokee Nation Communications, Julie Hubbard, said Warren apologized for releasing DNA …
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“From the 1970s on, the United States would seem less and less united with each passing decade” goes the thesis ofFault Lines, the new history from Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer. Based on the authors’ class at Princeton, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 …
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When President Trump’s Treasury Department proposed lifting sanctions on companies tied to the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in December Secretary Steven Mnuchin vowed that the firms would be forced to “significantly diminish Deripaska’s ownership and sever his control.” But, the New York Times is now reporting that Treasury’s promises were …
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Supervisors at theTrump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, provided fake green cards and Social Security numbers to undocumented employees, according to a report in theWashington Post. Anibal Romero, a lawyer representing five immigrants who were undocumented while working at the Trump property, told the newspaper that he turned …
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg had two cancerous nodules removed from her left lung on Friday, according to a statement released by the Supreme Court. The procedure took place at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where doctors found no evidence of “any remaining disease” in Ginsburg’s lung or …
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The headline in the New York Times reads: “Sanders and Warren Meet and Agree: They Both Are Probably Running.” At first, the story about Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont reads like standard election news. Dig deeper, though, and you find signs of negative media campaigns …
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Last week, President Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen admitted he lied to Congress more than a year ago when he claimed discussions about a possible Trump Tower in Moscow ceased in January 2016. (The talks continued through the Republican primary season, which ended in June 2016.) Cohen made the claims in …
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders called reporters to the White House on Tuesday for a rare press briefing. Though it was the only time this month the press secretary has held an on-camera briefing, she didn’t even answer questions for 15 minutes. Instead, Sanders ceded the bulk of the press conference to …
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In an interview between Fox News Sunday‘s Chris Wallace and President Donald Trump, topics ran the gamut from Trump’s relationship with the press to why he didn’t visit Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day to the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting Attorney General overseeing the Mueller investigation. Discussing CNN reporter …
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Shortly before 2 a.m. ET Wednesday morning, when Stacey Abrams took to the podium in a still-packed Atlanta ballroom, she trailed voter-suppressing Republican Brian Kemp with 99 percent of the returns counted. But Abrams wasn’t about to concede. “Friends, we are still on the verge of victory,” she proclaimed. With …
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