Monday night’s “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom call, with some 90,000 registered to participate, is surely a landmark in political history. Nearly 200 years ago, when the Democratic Party was being formed to elect and reelect President Andrew Jackson, the entire American electorate, with exceptions, such as black New Englanders, property-owning black New Yorkers, and […]
JACKSON, KY — The home where Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) spent his summers with his grandparents still stands just outside a tiny town in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Vance has credited this place with shaping who he is, a testament to his deep connection to Appalachia, located just under 200 miles from Middletown, Ohio. Despite the […]
The International Olympic Committee has decided that two boxers who were disqualified from the World Championships last year because they failed the sex eligibility test are allowed to fight in the Olympics in the women’s category. The boxers are Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, and they start their Olympic runs this week. Mark […]
In an extinction burst of his lame-duck presidency, the outgoing Joe Biden is proposing a slew of progressive plans that are dead on arrival but serve to satisfy his delusion that he’s the most consequential president since Franklin Roosevelt. Biden’s latest stab at an entry on the left-wing Christmas list arrived in Monday’s Washington Post, […]
Former President Trump on Wednesday mocked Vice President Harris’ heritage during a live interview Wednesday at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, telling the Chicago gathering that she “happened to turn Black.” ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott pressed Trump on comments from other Republicans that Harris was a “DEI hire” and was only elevated...
Former President Trump on Wednesday clashed with an ABC News correspondent at a convention of Black journalists, slamming her “disgraceful” questioning after she asked why Black voters should trust him with another term. ABC News’s Rachel Scott opened a question-and-answer session with Trump by citing his past comments spreading the birther conspiracy about former President Obama, his...
Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the recent global tech outage cost his company $500 million after the airline suffered major flight delays and cancellations. “This cost us a half a billion dollars,” Bastian said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “Over a period of five days, between not just the lost revenue, but the tens of...
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams challenged CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday, accusing the host of spreading “disinformation” after she challenged the Democrat on her refusal to concede the 2018 election. Abrams narrowly lost the 2018 gubernatorial race to Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and refused to concede, claiming that the state’s election laws violated voting...
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday amid growing speculation that the central bank would start rate cuts later this year. Fed Chair Jerome Powell is slated to give remarks Wednesday afternoon on the decision. Markets had been expecting the Fed to keep rates where they are as inflation continued to fall over the summer, but...
Senate Democrats are releasing their annual study on staff diversity Wednesday amid a deepening partisan divide on the value of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. According to the survey, among Senate Democratic staffers, 41 percent identify as non-Caucasian, 57 percent are women and 17 percent identify as LGBTQ. The 2024 survey shows a small...