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A new report from the Herald Tribune claims that the Illinois Republican Party’s election strategy has been thrown into disarray after President Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of infamously corrupt former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. “Looking ahead to the November general election, leading Illinois Republicans thought they had a marketable message to voters by […]

Chris Taylor, a Trump-backing congressional candidate running in Arizona, has suspended his campaign after revealing that he overdosed on heroin. The Arizona Republic reports that Taylor, a combat veteran who has battled with drug addiction since high school, admitted that he relapsed in his announcement about suspending his campaign. “Today, I have suspended my campaign […]

Beyonce kicked off a star-studded memorial ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday for basketball great Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna who died along with seven others in a helicopter crash last month. “I’m here because I love Kobe,” said the 70-time Grammy-nominated artist as she launched into one of Bryant’s favorite songs “XO,” dressed […]

After toppled Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was found guiltyof rape and committing a criminal sexual act, celebrities sounded off about the verdict.The allegations against Weinstein touched off a surge in the #MeToo movement in 2017.Weinstein, 67, was remanded to jail and faces up to 29 years in prison. He will be sentenced on March 11.The […]

After the Iowa Caucus, Republicans turned their noses up, proclaiming a laughable turnout for Democrats compared with the 2016 election. Remember that time we were told that Democrats were SUPER EXCITED YOU GUYS about ousting Trump, and then their turnout in Iowa was pretty abysmal? — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 4, 2020 It now seems […]

U.S. stocks dropped sharply as investors worried about new reports of Coronavirus cases outside of China.The Dow Jones Industrial Averagefell 979 points, or 3.4%, when the markets opened. The S&P 500 fell 3.2%, while the NASDAQ dropped 4%.If the losses stay, it could be the Dow’s third largest point dropin the past three years.The significant […]

WASHINGTON— Congress is poised to makelynching a federal crimefor the first time.The U.S. House is poised to clear legislation on Wednesday and send it to President Donald Trump for his signature. It’s the same bill co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Cory Bookerthat passed the Senate unanimously a year ago.“Lynching has been used as a pernicious tool […]

A lawyer for Julian Assange on Monday claimed the United States’ bid to extradite him is part of President Donald Trump’s “war on leakers and journalists”, as the WikiLeaks founder’s full extradition hearing opened in Britain. Assange faces charges under the US Espionage Act for the 2010 release by his anti-secrecy website of a trove […]

New York (AFP) – The legendary German electro pioneers Kraftwerk on Monday announced a North American tour to celebrate their 50th anniversary.The influential group — which has inspired artists from David Bowie to Kanye West and Daft Punk — will kick off the 27-date trek throughout the US and Canada in Seattle on June 19, […]

CHICAGO — Almost a year to the day after Jussie Smollett was first brought up on charges accusing him of staging a bizarre hate crime on himself, the former “Empire” actor pleaded not guilty in a new criminal case connected to the incident.Smollett pleaded not guilty to six counts of disorderly conduct before Judge James […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Joe Biden unveiled a new $640 billion housing plan on Monday that includes certain homeowner and renter protections already in place in California.While he won’t cap annual rent increases, which California lawmakers did last year, he supports a national Bill of Rights similar to the California Homeowner Bill of Rights.California’s 2013 law, […]

Democrats blasted the $3 billion sales practices settlement that Wells Fargo came to with federal officials on Friday, calling it “a slap on the wrist” for a bank that could easily pay the cost of the deal.The settlement, reached between the bank, federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission, essentially put Wells Fargo on […]

We’re just a few weeks away from the debut of Westworld Season 3 on HBO on March 15. While we still don’t have a clear idea what to expect from the upcoming batch of episodes, some sharp-eyed fans of the show have discovered a handful of teasers hidden within a HBO-made website for a fictional […]

Paleontologists announced on Monday the discovery of a billion-year-old green seaweed fossil, evidence of something way older than land-based plants, an ancestor to everything that grows on Earth.In a studypublished in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution , researchers from Virginia Tech write that the seaweed, Proterocladus antiquus, is likely the ancestor of the very […]

MSNBC host Chris Matthews came under fire for his comments comparing Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., winning the Nevada caucus to the Nazi invasion of France. Matthews reacted to the results in Nevada — where Sanders handily won with roughly 47% of the vote — by likening his campaign to the Nazi army, and the Democratic Party […]

The presidential campaign is heating up and Democratic voters are wringing their hands trying to figure out which of their candidates is more likely to beat President Trump. Pundits have talked themselves in circles while strategists try to figure out which demographic mixture and turnout models will lead to victory as the number-crunchers slice and […]

“For decades, the U.S.-India relationship was anchored by claims of shared values of human rights and human dignity. Now, those shared values are discrimination, bigotry, and hostility towards refugees and asylum seekers.” U.S. President Donald Trump got a warm welcome from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to kick off a whirlwind 36-hour tour of the […]

This morning, the 24th of February, tens of thousands of fans are set to gather at LA’s Staples Center to mourn the passing of all-time NBA great Kobe Bryant who, along with his daughter Gianna Bryant and seven others, died tragically in a helicopter crash on the 26th of January. This is, in fact, the official […]

Andy Khawaja, a Lebanese-American businessman, is making some wild claims to the conservative Spectator publication that he helped Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates illegally funnel millions of dollars to President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016. In an interview with Spectator’s Paul Wood, Khawaja claims that he sold technology to political operative George Nader […]

On February 18, President Donald Trump granted presidential pardons or clemency to 11 people, ranging from former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to financial criminal Michael Milken (dubbed “The Junk Bond King”) to former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik (a long-time ally of Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani). Trump has drawn some praise from the […]

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Monday that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ potential nomination is “the payback” Democrats deserve for impeaching President Donald Trump. During an interview on Fox News, Conway was asked about reports that President Donald Trump has a “hit list” of people to remove from government because they are not loyal enough […]

Another Republican leader is saying the quiet part out loud, The Idaho Statesman reported Monday. Republican state lawmaker Vito Barbieri is the same official who said that women could simply swallow a camera to conduct a gynecological exam. He also believes the trauma of rape can stop a pregnancy from it. Now he’s asking why […]

Late on Friday, the Washington Post published a story that caused major ripples through the progressive political world, headlined, “Bernie Sanders briefed by U.S. officials that Russia is trying to help his presidential campaign.” This report was a follow-up to a similar report, from earlier in the week, that Russian intelligence agencies, as in 2016, […]

In a revealing interview with Politico’s Tim Alberta, an elderly Iowa man who barely gets by driving for Uber three days a week said he wouldn’t mind if Donald Trump is made president for life and then admitted he is considering selling some of his personal property to make ends meet — including to pay […]

The town of Imotski in the mostly-Catholic country of Croatia is getting attention after its leaders decided to burn an effigy of a same-sex couple kissing, and holding a child, as part of a 150-year old annual carnival celebration. As the video below shows, the figures of two men kissing were lit on fire, and […]