Controversial tweets didn't help her chances
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Senator Mitch McConnell...
While working at the Pentagon, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson would drink while working, take Ambien and make sexual advances to staffers, the inspector general reported Tuesday, according to CNN.
Jackson, who has since been elected as a Republican...
Topics: Pentagon, CNN
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) talks with reporters before a series of Senate votes known as vote-a-rama in the Capitol on February 4, 2021.
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Some Democrats are pushing to change unemployment...
Topics: Senate, Unemployment, Usa Photos
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday defended the bureau against criticism that it missed warning signs about the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and failed to adequately sound the alarm about the possibility of violence by supporters of...
Topics: FBI, Activism
OAKLAND — California Gov. Gavin Newsom chided his Texas counterpart on Tuesday for lifting coronavirus restrictions, saying the change risked a viral resurgence.
While Newsom did not specifically name Texas or its Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, it...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is under increasing pressure from fellow Democrats.
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Several New York state lawmakers shared their thoughts with Insider on the fate of Andrew Cuomo.
While the Democrats largely agreed on...
But the 'I Decided' rapper took control of his life, sought therapy and got back on track.
Topics: Gun Control
President Joe Biden's pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, has withdrawn her nomination after she faced opposition from key Democratic and Republican senators for her controversial tweets. Her withdrawal marks the first...
Topics: Joe Biden
The severe weather crisis in Texas was so bad that power went out and water and sanitation quickly followed. While Texas has power and water and can begin the long, tedious process of repairing their homes, Mississippi is still suffering.
Like...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) once joked that someone could kill Sen. Ted Cruz (R-X) on the Senate floor and they wouldn't be found guilty even if they were tried by the U.S. Senate, CNN reported at the time.
According to Rolling Stone, Cruz's former...
Topics: Autobiographies, Biographies, Lindsey Graham, Senate, CNN
The CARES Act was passed by Congress and signed by former President Donald Trump, but Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) wants credit too, according to local site The Lost Ogle.
Last year, Stitt gave 0.002 percent of the state's $1.5-billion CARES...
Topics: Donald Trump
Vernon Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights before reinventing himself as a Washington insider and corporate influencer, has died at the age of 85. His niece, Ann Walker Marchant,...
Topics: Activism
With the ink barely dry on the 2020 election, the Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral argument in two voting-rights cases from Arizona that could affect elections in that state and others in the future. The cases – Brnovich v. Democratic National...
Rep. Nancy Mace has only been in Congress for a few months, but she’s already establishing herself as an independent voice in the Republican Party. The latest issue the freshman congresswoman from South Carolina is speaking out...
Topics: Religion
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and other conservative members of the Senate Democratic caucus are reportedly pressing for changes to the emerging coronavirus relief legislation that would cut the bill's proposed weekly unemployment supplement and...
Topics: Unemployment, Senate, Caucuses
South Carolina senators voted to bring back the firing squad as a method of execution, the Columbia State reports.
“A bipartisan group of lawmakers voted in favor of the measure, which was proposed as an amendment to an execution bill that would...
This is so terribly sad.
According to the Daily Mail:
At least 13 people were killed Tuesday morning when an SUV stuffed with 25 suspected undocumented immigrants, including children, collided with a semi-truck in Southern California.
The crash...
Topics: Ford, Immigration
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an unusual and interesting opinion today in Larry E. Parrish P.C. v. Bennett. The opinion by Judge Griffin begins:
In this action, Larry E. Parrish, P.C., a Tennessee law firm (the "Parrish...
The Democrats and their media have spent the past few months crying about political violence coming from conservatives, calling for gun control, and militarizing the nation’s capital. All of the agonizing about political violence came after a year...
Topics: Gun Control