Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Friday said it is an "absolute lie" that he suggested renaming Penn Station after President Trump, a claim that the president made earlier in the day. "Absolute lie. He knows it. Everyone knows it," Schumer said in a post on the social platform X. "Only one man can...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday accused the White House and President Trump of a cover-up for blaming a staffer for posting a since-deleted video depicting former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. "No one believes this cover up from the White House, especially since they originally defended the post,"...
President Trump on Friday said he "of course" condemns a since-deleted racist video posted on his social media account depicting former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, but declined to apologize for the post. Trump told reporters on Air Force One while heading to Palm Beach, Fla., that he "just looked...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democrats face a critical choice on how much to work with Republicans on government funding when Congress returns next week - with a government shutdown and anger from their voters hanging in the balance. Senate Democrats took a beating from the base during the last funding showdown in...
By now it is clear that Netanyahu and Hamas are equally cynical and equally prepared to go on fighting, whatever additional human tragedies this war will continue to create.
A group of top leaders who resigned from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier this week cast blame for their decision on the environment created by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Trump. “I think the CDC really is a place filled with great scientists and...
President Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are facing pressure over the Trump administration's decision to shakeup leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After four senior leaders resigned in the wake of CDC Director Susan Monarez's ouster, critics question what the move means for vaccine...
The issue of selective prosecution has been raised by some critics who have accused the Justice Department of showing favoritism to friends or associates of President Trump and investigating Trump’s enemies.
In 2017, there was a movement called "Me Too." It was about taking women seriously when we complained about being sexually harassed or abused by men. Eight years later, that has all gone out the window. Women are in fact being forced to share intimate spaces like changing rooms and locker rooms with men who claim...
A man accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in Washington, D.C, amid President Trump’s city takeover has been charged with misdemeanor assault. Sean Dunn, a Department of Justice (DOJ) employee at the time of the incident, was charged Wednesday with one count of "assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees," according to...
A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from removing Voice of America's (VOA) agency director Michael Abramowitz from his post. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that Kari Lake, President Trump’s top advisor to the U.S Agency for Global Media, cannot fire Abramowitz, who was told he would be "subject to termination" starting Aug....
The Citizens Budget Commission (CBC), a nonpartisan think tank, argued that millionaires are crucial to funding New York City's critical services and the city should work to retain them. “Millionaires are critical to New York’s tax base. In 2012, they comprised less than 1 percent of New York State’s and New York City’s resident filers,...
The Department of Education is threatening sanctions against Denver public schools over their use of all-gender restrooms, the latest Trump administration action against gender-related accommodations. According to a Thursday release from the Education Department, its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) “found that Denver Public Schools (the District) violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of...
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