Federal Judge Compares Trump’s Attacks On Courts To KKK And Segregationists
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves fiercely criticized President Donald Trump’s attacks on the judiciary in a speech Thursday, likening some of his rebukes to tactics that had been used by the Ku Klux Klan and segregationists. “We are now eyewitnesses to the third great assault on our judiciary,” Reeves said, according to a copy of…
Killing Obamacare kills Trump’s health agenda, too
By eliminating Medicaid expansion, reversing the Affordable Care Act would make President Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate HIV vastly more expensive. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump wants to eliminate HIV in the U.S., contain the opioid crisis and lower the cost of prescription drugs — but all of those need Obamacare to be…
How the UK lost Brexit battle
LONDON he European Union set the train in motion before the result of the Brexit referendum had even been announced. It was at 6:22 a.m. on June 24, 2016 — 59 minutes before the official tally was unveiled — that the European Council sent its first “lines to take” to the national governments that make…
How the UK lost Brexit battle
LONDON he European Union set the train in motion before the result of the Brexit referendum had even been announced. It was at 6:22 a.m. on June 24, 2016 — 59 minutes before the official tally was unveiled — that the European Council sent its first “lines to take” to the national governments that make…
House Dems agonize over Ilhan Omar
Members of the Democratic caucus spent the weekend privately debating how to handle Rep. Ilhan Omar's latest controversy involving accusations of anti-Semitism. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats will take floor action Wednesday in response to controversial remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar about Israel, the second such rebuke of the freshman…
House Dems agonize over Ilhan Omar
Members of the Democratic caucus spent the weekend privately debating how to handle Rep. Ilhan Omar's latest controversy involving accusations of anti-Semitism. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats will take floor action Wednesday in response to controversial remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar about Israel, the second such rebuke of the freshman…
Trump technically obese, despite doctor’s clean bill of health
President Donald Trump's doctor, Sean Conley, recorded Trump's height as 6'3" and his weight as 243 pounds. | Win McNamee/Getty Images White House A four-pound weight gain over the last year makes the president obese under the official definition of the term. By ANDREW RESTUCCIA 02/14/2019 04:43 PM EST Updated 02/14/2019 05:20 PM EST 2019-02-14T05:20-0500…
Why Elizabeth Warren Needs to Give ‘The Speech’
Russell Arben Fox is a professor of political science at Friends University in Wichita, Kan. It’s undeniable that Elizabeth Warren’s formal presidential campaign announcement on Saturday was deflated by the news, which broke just days before, that she had described herself as “American Indian” on her application to the Texas bar in 1986. This wasn’t…
The All-Bust Team from 2018 NBA Free Agency
0 of 5 David Zalubowski/Associated Press The 2018 NBA offseason felt like the hoops world's homage to Roll Safe, or the guy-tapping-head meme. You can't wildly overspend in free agency when you enter it with no usable cap space. There were misfires, sure, and we'll get to the biggest blunders at each position. But this…
Senate rejects Trump plan to fund border wall and end shutdown
“I think it certainly puts everybody on record, and if nothing else I would hope at least that this would get the conversation going again,” Senate Minority Whip John Thune said of the Senate's first move on funding since the shutdown began. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo The Senate blocked two proposals on Thursday to reopen…
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