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A leading group of Republican senators is petitioning the Trump administration to reopen the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to hundreds of foreign ISIS fighters captured on the battlefield, according to a copy of a letter sent Tuesday to the White House and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
After several media outlets walked back their reporting on Covington Catholic high school students’ interaction with a Native American man during the March for Life, a New York publication attempted to smear the students by accusing them of wearing blackface.
Comedienne Kathy Griffin on Tuesday deleted a tweet that misinterpreted Covington Catholic basketball players’ hand signs and accused students of signaling support for Nazism.
The bitterness over the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race has not come anywhere close to subsiding, if new remarks by Stacey Abrams are any indication.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) acknowledged Tuesday that her defense of a 2012 tweet, in which she now admits unknowingly having used an anti-Semitic trope, was “unfortunate and offensive.”
Angelo Roefaro, the press secretary for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), makes a cameo in a newly released documentary about the disastrous Fyre music festival. The festival’s organizer is now serving a six-year sentence for defrauding attendees and investors out of millions of dollars.
A Catholic high school in Kentucky remained closed Tuesday morning due to threats provoked by false media reports.
Gavin Newsom, just a few weeks into his tenure as California governor, has said he’s not running for president in 2020 but he’s still putting out early feelers for a possible 2024 race.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) took another shot from a New York editorial board Tuesday for misleading voters about her presidential ambitions while running for reelection to the Senate last year.
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is considering dropping long-time major donors, the Sackler family, after new reporting indicates they were more closely tied to their company’s role in the opioid crisis than previously thought.
Vice President Mike Pence expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and support for opposition leader Juan Guaido against authoritarian Nicolas Maduro in a new video released Tuesday.
The Supreme Court decided not to consider an appeal from a high school football coach who was fired for praying at the 50-yard line after games. Joseph Kennedy, who coached at Bremerton High School in Washington before being fired in 2015, argued his First Amendment rights had been violated by the school district.
The newly launched Kamala Harris presidential campaign is stacked with top officials from Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign, including her lawyer Marc Elias.
The push by California billionaire Tom Steyer to impeach President Trump is shifting gears, moving some of the focus away from pressuring members of the House of Representatives, and is now hoping to gain commitments to impeachment from every Democrat running for president.
When winter storms cover Takoma, Washington, D.C., the neighborhood looks like a snow globe flipped on its head. And death lurks everywhere: in the funeral home on the corner, in the novels stacked in the bookstore—but especially in the conversations at the two-story arts center where tonight, Death Café hosts its first 2019 event in D.C.
California Republicans are gearing up to target several vulnerable Democratic state legislators in an effort to block Democratic governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed new tax on drinking water.
Senate Republicans released a version of President Donald Trump’s shutdown-ending proposal Monday, which, if passed, would fully fund the government and invest nearly $6 billion in building a southwestern border wall.
The National Institutes of Health is spending roughly $250,000 in an attempt to train kids to meditate so they do not engage in “emotional eating.”
A new book by Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) abandons the term “Latino” in favor of the liberal activist-preferred “Latinx,” a gender-neutral term she has seldom used in the past.
China’s technology theft and other unfair economic practices are one of several targets of activity for the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Pharmaceutical firms’ direct marketing to doctors continues to cause prescription opioid deaths, a new study argues.
After several media outlets walked back their reporting on Covington Catholic high school students’ interaction with a Native American man during the March for Life, a New York publication attempted to smear the students by accusing them of wearing blackface.
Comedienne Kathy Griffin on Tuesday deleted a tweet that misinterpreted Covington Catholic basketball players’ hand signs and accused students of signaling support for Nazism.
The bitterness over the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race has not come anywhere close to subsiding, if new remarks by Stacey Abrams are any indication.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) acknowledged Tuesday that her defense of a 2012 tweet, in which she now admits unknowingly having used an anti-Semitic trope, was “unfortunate and offensive.”
Angelo Roefaro, the press secretary for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), makes a cameo in a newly released documentary about the disastrous Fyre music festival. The festival’s organizer is now serving a six-year sentence for defrauding attendees and investors out of millions of dollars.
A Catholic high school in Kentucky remained closed Tuesday morning due to threats provoked by false media reports.
The Supreme Court decided not to consider an appeal from a high school football coach who was fired for praying at the 50-yard line after games. Joseph Kennedy, who coached at Bremerton High School in Washington before being fired in 2015, argued his First Amendment rights had been violated by the school district.
The newly launched Kamala Harris presidential campaign is stacked with top officials from Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign, including her lawyer Marc Elias.
Gavin Newsom, just a few weeks into his tenure as California governor, has said he’s not running for president in 2020 but he’s still putting out early feelers for a possible 2024 race.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) took another shot from a New York editorial board Tuesday for misleading voters about her presidential ambitions while running for reelection to the Senate last year.
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is considering dropping long-time major donors, the Sackler family, after new reporting indicates they were more closely tied to their company’s role in the opioid crisis than previously thought.
