WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Friday that he has selected Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, as his nominee to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Trump said in a pair of tweets that Craft "has done an outstanding job representing our Nation" and he has "no..… - 14 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 3:20pm -
Gov. Cuomo is spearheading a multi-state effort to overturn a Trump administration tax cap he says unfairly targets Democratic states. Cuomo joined with New Jersey Gov. Murphy, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and others Friday in Washington in a bid to to compel Congress to make changes to the so-called… - 15 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 2:25pm -
President Trump made clear Friday he’s prepared to issue the first veto of his presidency to fend off congressional attempts to block his national emergency declaration to get funding for a Mexican border wall. “On the wall? Will I veto it? 100%,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when a… - 16 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 1:05pm -
The Trump administration announced Friday it’s drastically rolling back abortion access for low-income Americans, a controversial move that’s expected to draw legal challenges. The new restriction, which was posted on the Department of Health and Human Services website, prohibits family planning… - 17 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 12:00pm -
An inmate at Rikers Island was able to complain directly to the mayor about conditions there Friday — by calling in to Hizzoner’s weekly radio appearance. “Looks like we are getting a phone call from somebody who is in Rikers Island,” WNYC host Brian Lehrer said before introducing a caller w… - 19 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 10:50am -
Garden State voters may not be able to cast ballots for President Trump in 2020 unless he’s prepared to show where he gets his green. The New Jersey state Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that would block presidential and vice presidential candidates from appearing on ballots in the... - 19 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 9:55am -
The fevered speculation about when the special counsel will conclude his work overshadows how much the public already knows about the president and Russia. - 2 hours ago 23 Feb 19, 3:00am -
A Department of Justice official is now saying that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report will not be delivered this week or next. - 15 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 2:40pm -
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is no fan of the president, but he’s also worried that running against Trump in a GOP primary is a “kamikaze run.” - 20 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 8:56am -
North Carolina’s Board of Elections unanimously voted to redo the election in the state’s Ninth Congressional District. - 2 days ago 21 Feb 19, 2:34pm -
"It’s hard to explain the anxiety that permeates the office," a former staffer for the Minnesota Democrat told BuzzFeed News.View Entire Post › - 4 mins ago 23 Feb 19, 5:25am -
“We did not sign up to develop weapons,” says an employee letter to Microsoft executives published Friday.View Entire Post › - 6 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 11:25pm -
Stone testified in his defense on Thursday, saying he was "kicking myself over my own stupidity" for posting a photo of the judge on Instagram with what appeared to be a crosshairs symbol. The judge said his apology "rings quite hollow."View Entire Post › - 1 day ago 21 Feb 19, 8:31pm -
Jessica Denson, who worked for the Trump campaign in 2016, is arguing the language of the nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreements that all staffers had to sign is unlawful.View Entire Post › - 2 days ago 21 Feb 19, 1:25pm -
“DSA could play an important role in supporting Sanders,” the organization told members after the senator announced his campaign.View Entire Post › - 2 days ago 21 Feb 19, 1:11pm -
President Trump will not be out of legal peril even after special counsel Robert Mueller delivers his final report - especially given that investigations by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), among o... - 2 hours ago 23 Feb 19, 2:53am -
Average tax refund amounts are down double-digits compared to last year, according to the latest batch of weekly IRS data about the 2019 tax-filing season released late Friday.The average refund through Feb. 15 was... - 9 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 8:27pm -
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has suspended the mayor of Port Richey, Fla., after he was arrested Friday on charges of practicing medicine without a license in addition to charges of attempted homicide for allegedly shoot... - 14 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 3:32pm -
Trump is intensifying his attack on federal funding for Planned Parenthood with the introduction of new rules that are widely seen as a way of gutting federal funding to the group. - 15 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 2:45pm -
President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen reportedly told prosecutors about possible irregular business dealings within the Trump family business.... - 15 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 2:25pm -
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A week after publisher and editor Goodloe Sutton penned an editorial that called upon the “Ku Klux Klan to night ride again,” the Democrat-Reporter of Alabama has announced its choice to relieve Sutton of his duties.Read more... - 5 hours ago 23 Feb 19, 12:07am -
A Republican lawmaker has announced his decision to invite the two women who have accused Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax of sexual assault to share their stories before the Grand Assembly Panel.Read more... - 9 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 8:44pm -
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The plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States say they’ve been denied their right to a safe and stable climate. The attorneys representing young people who are suing the federal government in a major climate change lawsuit recently took the unusual step of filing an injunction to stop all new leases… - 21 mins ago 23 Feb 19, 5:00am -
Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what’s happening in the world. Sign up for the Vox Sentences newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday, or view the Vox Sentences archive for past editions.A new ruling from a federal judge puts convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epste… - 12 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 5:00pm -
After a week-long delay, the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari, is facing off against business leader Atiku Abubakar during a tenuous time for Nigeria’s economy and its security situation. Nigerian voters will go to the polls on Saturday to choose their president — that is, if the vote doesn’t get p… - 15 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 1:58pm -
The allegedly non-Mao-inspired jacket retails for $69.90. Uniqlo’s new spring collection features basic T-shirts and tank tops in bright jewel tones, Mister Rogers-esque cardigans, and ... a military jacket and pants combo that kind of look like the uniform worn by Mao Zedong.Uniqlo says it's "… - 16 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 1:50pm -
Trump in fact has a long history of encouraging violence. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders dismissed a question from a reporter on Friday about whether President Trump has any plans to “tone done his rhetoric” after Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Hasson was arrested over an alleged plot to… - 16 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 1:35pm -
A new documentary, The Green Book: Guide to Freedom, looks at how the historic travel guide helped black motorists. In the 1930s, as the spread of automobiles spurred American drivers to take long trips to explore the country, black drivers who took to America’s roads regularly experienced discrim… - 16 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 1:30pm -
The president's already claiming his overtures to North Korea’s dictator merit another term and maybe a Nobel Peace Prize, too. - 3 hours ago 23 Feb 19, 2:45am -
Kellyanne Conway's husband said it was driving U.S. foreign policy more than "the national interest and rational consideration of intelligence assessments." - 3 hours ago 23 Feb 19, 1:58am -
Angry tweets erupt after president points out that Patriots' owner Robert Kraft "proclaimed his innocence totally" after being accused of soliciting sex. - 7 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 10:36pm -
The California senator reminded a 16-year-old that the teen didn't vote for her as the group urged Feinstein to act on climate change. - 12 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 5:26pm -
Results suggest that use of meth, heroin, other injection drugs may be driving some of the increase in the STD among heterosexuals. - 51 mins ago 23 Feb 19, 4:30am -
Officers in Florida had come to arrest the mayor, a former doctor, on a charge of illegally practicing medicine. Then the shots rang out. - 14 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 2:57pm -
After a graduate student's racially insensitive email was circulated on Twitter, the university reckons with racist behavior on campus. - 15 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 2:05pm -
The impetus for her resignation — that her personal life had collided with her professional mission — was not initially disclosed. - 15 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 1:59pm -
Stress is less of an epidemic than it is an atmosphere, this thing that lives with us and inside of us. But is it also maybe good? Let's find out! - 15 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 2:03pm -
After a member of the military allegedly obsessed with race war got arrested, Trump's spokeswoman reached a new low. - 15 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 1:59pm -
Artists, models, and revelers remember a gloriously liberated decade of going out and making art—and the legendary watering holes that made it possible. - 17 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 11:54am -
Robert Sylvester Kelly, better known as R. Kelly, is now in police custody after being charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. The post R. KELLY ARRESTED! Prosecutors charge singer with sexually abusing 4 people, including 3 minors appeared first on theGrio. - 10 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 6:52pm -
The on-again, off again relationship between Offset and Cardi B has lead to changes in both of their lives including an unlikely one: the cover of his new album. Shortly after Cardi ended their marriage following frustration over his infidelity, she posted the first picture of their daughter Kultur… - 11 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 6:31pm -
The family of Mario Clark, 31, had alleged that he was beaten by Jackson police officers six days before his death. Now the Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham has determined that his internal injuries are consistent with strangulation and suffocation. Ruling that his death is a homicide reports… - 11 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 6:08pm -
Khloé Kardashian seems to have broken her silence on social media about the latest issues of alleged infidelity involving Tristan Thompson and Jordyn Woods – who is her sister Kylie Jenner’s best friend. On her Instagram stories on Thursday, Kardashian published a series of cryptic quotes, in… - 12 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 5:02pm -
Transgender rights activist Janet Mock is splitting from her husband after only about three years of marriage. According to Out.com, Wednesday, the bestselling author who serves as a writer, producer, and director on the hit FX show Pose — officially filed for divorce from Aaron Tredwell, citing… - 13 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 4:33pm -
As the story of his hate crime unraveled, Jussie Smollett allegedly told Chicago Police that he has an untreated drug problem reports Page Six. According to TMZ, Smollett divulged his alleged drug problem after turning himself in on Thursday morning on charges he filed a false police report invol… - 13 hours ago 22 Feb 19, 4:01pm -
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage r… - 21 Sep 18, 2:26am -