Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisRand Paul introduces bill to end no-knock warrants The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook McEnany says Juneteenth is a very ‘meaningful’ day to Trump MORE is making a return trip to “The Late Show,” as speculation of a 2020 White House bid swells around the California […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday set out to change a decades-old rule which allows a U.S. president to abuse power in any number of ways without being held accountable. In a Medium post titled “No President Is Above the Law,” the Massachusetts Democrat called on lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow for the indictment […]
Women in Georgia’s four largest counties may be protected from the state’s recently-passed six-week abortion ban—which has been condemned as part of the Republican Party’s recent ramped-up attack on reproductive rights—even if the law goes into effect next year. The district attorneys of DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Fulton counties all told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Monday […]
The powerful Ways & Means Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives will hold its first ever public hearing on Medicare for All on Wednesday, a development proponents of the idea characterize as critical to its ultimate realization. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10:00am ET. Watch the livestream below (or, if stream not […]
The economic proposal purportedly designed to help foment Israeli-Palestinian peace and made public over the weekend by Jared Kushner, top advisor and son-in-law to President Donald Trump, fell predictably flat as Palestinians rejected it immediately as not tethered to reality and an insult to those who continue to struggle while living under the U.S.-backed military […]
A state appeals court in New Jersey issued a vehement rebuke of a judge’s earlier court decision in a rape case, in which the judge had given leniency to the defendant—reasoning that he was from “a good family” and was a good student whose future would be ruined by a rape trial. The defendant was […]
Reproductive rights advocates were in Nashville Tuesday to testify against a new anti-choice bill proposed by Republican lawmakers in Tennessee, shifting national attention back to extreme efforts by the GOP to restrict the right to abortion care. Months after lawmakers in Georgia, Alabama, and other states passed strict abortion bans without exceptions for rape or […]
Sergio Perez has been handed a one-place grid penalty by the Tuscan Grand Prix stewards following his contact with Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen in FP2. Perez was exiting the pitlane when he was overtaken by Raikkonen on the entry to Turn 1. When the Finn turned into the corner, Perez just tagged the Alfa which […]
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) on Thursday denounced the possibility of a potential 2020 presidential bid from Rep. Beto O’RourkeBeto O’RourkeBiden will help close out Texas Democrats’ virtual convention: report O’Rourke on Texas reopening: ‘Dangerous, dumb and weak’ Parties gear up for battle over Texas state House MORE (D), who was defeated this month by […]
VANCOUVER — A judge described the killing of six people in a Surrey, B.C., highrise 13 years ago as “shocking and depraved” as she sentenced a gang leader to 18 years in prison on Friday for his role in the crime. With credit for time served while he was waiting to go on trial, Jamie […]