Democrat Phil Murphy was elected governor of New Jersey on Tuesday, CNN and MSNBC projected, sweeping to victory in the race to succeed unpopular Republican Governor Chris Christie on a liberal agenda that included a $15 minimum wage and increased school funding.
Will Democrats Ralph Northam and Phil Murphy win gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey? You can find out the answer to this question and more by following our live election results.
A House Republican who was going to be a top target of Democrats in 2018, Rep. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey will retire.
The ACLU is receiving reports that Democratic voters are being called and told that their polling place has changed to prevent them from voting in the Virginia gubernatorial election.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify before the House Judiciary Committee about issues facing the Justice Department on Nov. 14, the committee confirmed on Tuesday.
Instead of doing his job and passing legislation, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told people to pray away mass shootings and gun violence.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who pulled his country out of the 2015 Paris climate change deal, is “for the time being” not invited to a climate change summit due to be held in the French capital in December, an official in President Emmanuel Macron’s office said.
Trump’s newfound, phony interest in mental health issues quickly disintegrates after two minutes of scrutiny. It’s just another distraction the American people shouldn’t fall for.Â
To make matters worse for Trump, an even larger number of Americans – nearly two thirds – believe that the ongoing investigation into the president’s ties to Russia is a “serious matter.”
Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, put another nail in Trump’s coffin after Carter Page admitted that he not only met with high-level officials in Russia but that he also notified his supervisors on the Trump campaign about the meeting.
In the early going, it appears that Trump’s efforts to keep people from getting health insurance are failing – but it still remains to be seen what the long-term effects of his sabotage will be.Â
Twenty-six Americans, many of them children, might be alive today if not for an unimaginable oversight by the U.S. Air Force.
Trump could barely hide his jealousy over the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, rounding up and arresting his political opposition.
An ad by progressive billionaire Tom Steyer ran once on Fox News and then was stopped after Donald Trump saw it and threw a Twitter tantrum.
While Trump was trying to deflect blame from the gun for the Texas church shooting, MSNBC put on screen his call for immediate policy changes after the New York terror attack.
A man thrown out of the U.S. Air Force for beating his wife and child shot and killed 26 people in a Texas church where his in-laws had sometimes worshipped before shooting himself, officials said on Monday, in the latest in a string of U.S. mass shootings.
While speaking at a state dinner in Japan, Trump admitted that he didn’t know that there were so many countries in the world.
The White House has an executive order ready that would gut Obamacare by attacking the individual mandate by extending hardship exemptions.
Trump went out of his way to call the church shooting in Sutherland, Texas a mental health issue, but his budget makes huge cuts in mental health programs, on top of those with mental health issues who would lose their health insurance if Obamacare is repealed.
Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan admitted on Fox News Sunday that House Republicans are considering adding Obamacare repeal to their tax increase to the middle-class.
A disturbing pattern is emerging in the Trump presidency. After the mass shooting in Sutherland, Texas, Donald Trump and his White House issue generic statements as a white shooter doesn’t get the same attention from this president.
The President of the United States has spent his entire life trampling law, bullying subordinates, disrespecting races different from his and dodging all accountability for his actions. He’s about to learn that karma has a way of righting wrongs and humbling the most powerful of men.
If you’re wondering why Republican leaders refuse to act after such unspeakable violence, just follow the money.
To GOP politicians: When you repeatedly shed crocodile tears over mass shootings, then follow it up by refusing to do anything to prevent the next one, nobody hears you anymore.
Another day, another mass shooting in the United States. It is being reported 10-15 people are dead after a mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
When Kellyanne Conway tried to lie and say that the Steele Dossier was completely unverified, CNN’s Brian Stelter called her out for spreading misinformation on his show.
The fact Special Counsel Robert Mueller has enough evidence to charge Mike Flynn strengthens the obstruction of justice case against Donald Trump.
One chart from the ABC News/Washington Post Poll shows that Donald Trump is the most unpopular first-term president in the seven-decade history of presidential polling.
It is once again plug your nose week on Capitol Hill as House Republicans have released their tax bill with sweeping odious overhauls that steal away benefits for the poor and middle-class to pay for massive tax cuts for the most wealthy and largest corporations.
Trump has been wondering for months why a “nation of samurais” like Japan didn’t just shoot down North Korean missiles.
A man has been arrested for assaulting U.S. Senator Rand Paul at his Kentucky home on Friday and causing a “minor injury,” the state police said.
When the lawyer for the former campaign manager of President Donald Trump attacked the money laundering charge brought against his client as flimsy, some legal experts say he may have pinpointed a potential weakness in the indictment by U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller.
The new revelation may seem like a bombshell, but the idea reportedly didn’t gain traction anywhere other than Brazile’s head.
The whiny response from the White House comes after both Bushes confirmed that they had not voted for Trump in last year’s election, calling the president a “blowhard.”
Trump’s legal team is suggesting they will go after Mueller if he investigates anything they don’t want him to.
Trump seems to believe – or at least want you to believe – that this rosy economic picture came out of nowhere, thanks to him.
Each day of this presidency is a rerun of the last, with Trump recklessly lashing out on Twitter about everything from television ratings to NFL players to his former 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton.Â
The two former presidents think that Trump is a “blowhard” who is destroying the GOP. Both men also suggested Trump doesn’t have a clue what it means to be the leader of the free world.
A new non-partisan report exposes the big behind the Trump tax plan. The middle class and lower income people aren’t getting a cut. In fact, their taxes will go up under the Republican plan.
It turns out that Hillary Clinton didn’t rig the Democratic primary because the joint fundraising agreement between Clinton and the DNC only applied to the general election.
Republicans are considering adding repealing the individual mandate to their tax cuts for the rich bill, which means that not only would your taxes go up but 15 million people would lose their health insurance.
When Trump was asked if he would fire his Attorney General if he wouldn’t investigate Hillary Clinton and Democrats, the President gave an answer that made it clear that Jeff Sessions better investigate Clinton or else.
Trump is supposed to the Commander in Chief, but he responded to the decision not to sentence Bowe Bergdahl to prison time with an outburst of stunning disrespect.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) saw right through Trump’s attempt to distract from the Russia scandal and warned him that his tweets aren’t going to save his people from going to jail.
Three Republican U.S. lawmakers called on Friday for Robert Mueller to resign as special counsel investigating Russia and the 2016 U.S. election, the latest in a series of conservatives’ criticisms of the FBI and Justice Department during the probe of how Moscow may have influenced the campaign.
The Sierra Club and five other U.S. environmental groups sued a White House advisory council and the U.S. Interior Department, saying they were illegally withholding information about a review of public land designations, according to court papers.
U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl on Friday was spared prison time for endangering fellow troops when he deserted his post in Afghanistan in 2009, but a military judge ordered he should be dishonorably discharged from the service.
House Republicans finally passed a bill to extend funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for five years, but their bill raises Medicare premiums and would result in 700,000 people losing their health insurance.
Trump is abusing the power of the presidency in an impeachable manner by publicly pressuring the FBI to launch an investigation of Hillary Clinton to try to distract attention from Special Counsel in the Russia investigation closing in on him.
The tax plan that Trump and the Republicans are trying to sell as great for the middle-class is a fraud. While the tax cuts for the very wealthy and largest corporations are permanent, the middle-class tax cuts expire after 5 years.
Trump suddenly can’t remember meeting with his foreign policy team in 2016, as he practically begged the press to focus on Hillary Clinton and the DNC instead of the Russia scandal while leaving for his trip to Asia.
U.S. congressional Democrats filed suit on Thursday seeking the release of government documents related to Republican President Donald Trump’s ownership of a Washington hotel that critics say represents a conflict of interest.
Sessions didn’t just meet with the Russians himself, but he was informed about similar contacts made by others in the campaign.
Senate Democrats on Thursday demanded that Attorney General Jeff Sessions be recalled to testify on the Trump campaign’s Russia contacts following the disclosure of an effort to set up a meeting for then-Republican candidate Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
If there is any investigation Trump should be worried about, it’s the one that is pushing his administration closer to complete collapse – not the phony one he wishes he could wage against Hillary Clinton.
There are very few things Donald Trump does or could do – besides resign, maybe – that evoke the type of response we saw on Thursday night, but it was certainly nice while it lasted. Â
As his presidency continues to crumble under the weight of explosive scandals and utter incompetence, it’s no surprise that this president would float lies about his golf score. It’s all he has left.
Raytheon Co has been awarded a $2.87 billion contract.
During an interview on CNN, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) agreed with Donna Brazile that the Clinton campaign did rig the Democratic nomination by controlling the DNC.
In a new letter, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) his position as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to call out Attorney General Jeff Sessions lies about Russia, and demand answers from Sessions about his false statements.
It’s no accident that the 429-page House Republican tax bill specifically takes aim at Democrats and areas that didn’t vote for Trump. Petty, petulant and punitive is how this Republican Party rolls. But the next time someone claims Obama divided this country, just ask them about this.
President Donald Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been caught in yet another Russia-related lie.
Police in Colorado on Thursday captured a man who they had said calmly walked into a suburban Denver Walmart and fatally shot three people at random before driving away.
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Republican Ed Gillespie was losing in the polls to Democrat Ralph Northam as he walked the wire avoiding the toxicity of Trump but trying to court Trump voters.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his call that the Uzbek immigrant accused of killing eight people when he drove a truck down a New York City bike path should get the death penalty.
The Republican has also called for preserving Confederate monuments following the clashes between white supremacists and protesters in August in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Once trailing significantly behind Democrat Ralph Northam, the state’s lieutenant governor, Gillespie has risen in the polls since the ads began running regularly. Kidd credits the spots for making the race competitive.
Trump’s constant denials that Russia was behind the DNC hack were dealt a death blow as prosecutors say that they have enough evidence to bring charges against 6 Russian government officials for the hack and could move forward on the case next year. The Wall Steet Journal reported, “The Justice Department has identified more than…
Sam Clovis, a top adviser to President Donald Trump during his election campaign, on Thursday withdrew his candidacy for a senior administration post, just days after he was linked to another aide who pleaded guilty in the probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
House Republicans unveiled their tax plan and came under immediate criticism for a plan that is massively tilted toward the richest Americans and biggest corporations.
People inside the White House are distancing themselves from Trump and admitting that the impeachment of the President had become a real possibility.
In an Oct. 29 message posted on Twitter, President Trump said the dossier had cost as much as $12 million, without providing evidence.
With the new and increasingly damning revelations in the Russia investigation, the media should stop talking about collusion as if it’s still in question. Â
U.S. President Donald Trump does not recall a meeting with his foreign policy advisers in March 2016 in which one of them suggested he could arrange a meeting between candidate Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House said on Wednesday.
The fact that so many Americans have written off a president before he’s even been in office for a full year would be surprising in the pre-Trump era.
House Democrats have unveiled a visionary plan that would protect and expand worker rights at a time when Trumpism is out to destroy middle-class America to cut taxes for the uber rich.
In the wake of the terrorist attack in New York City that left eight people dead, Donald Trump refuses to stop playing politics.
Republicans are eyeing new limits on how much money Americans can pump each year into their 401(k) retirement accounts on a pre-tax basis. Lower limits for tax-free contributions would produce new revenue to help Republicans pay for tax cuts they have proposed for high-income earners, corporations and wealthy families’ inheritances.
A satisfied gun lobby that keeps raking in the dough means GOP campaign coffers remain full going into next year’s midterm elections. Apparently, everything else is irrelevant.
Alphabet Inc’s Google, Microsoft Corp and other major tech companies were poised on Wednesday to join a legal challenge against a decision to end protections against deportation for immigrants brought into the United States illegally as children, the companies told Reuters.
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee will disclose on Wednesday a sample of Russian-linked content that ran on social media during the 2016 presidential election, the panel’s top Democrat said.
At the White House daily briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked if Trump wants the tax reform bill to be called the Cut Cut Cut Act, and her answer revealed just how far gone Trump is.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan allowed Donald Trump to name the Republican tax reform bill, and immediately regretted it as Trump wants to call the bill the Tax Cut Cut Cut Act.
About 20 million Americans may have seen Russian-backed content on Instagram in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook Inc disclosed on Wednesday as lawmakers questioned tech companies about Russia’s use of social media to try to influence the vote.
President Donald Trump promised to kill the law in his 2016 election campaign, and he has taken executive and administrative actions to undermine it.
To get someone to betray their country, an intelligence officer looks for vulnerabilities to exploit and these are summed up as MICE: Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego, Alex Finley, a former officer of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, explained. President Trump was easy “easy prey for Putin†just because of his ego.
Trump was trying to read a statement about the New York terror attack before a cabinet meeting, but he had to keep referring back to his paper, stumbled over words, and mispronounced the word diversity repeatedly.
A terrorist attacked New York City yesterday, and Donald Trump still hasn’t called to talk to state and local officials.
Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, had three U.S. passports, millions in assets and ties to Russian oligarchs, according to federal court documents after his indictment on tax fraud and money laundering charges.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) exposed Trump for trying to cut anti-terrorism program funding after the President blamed Schumer for the New York terror attack.
Trump falsely blamed the terror attack in New York that happened on his watch on Senate Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
