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Fraidy Reiss started the organization, Unchained at Last, in 2011 to push for an end to child and forced marriages after her own horrific experience of being forced to marry a violent man at the age of 19.
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is starting to cause real pain for some of the most vulnerable Americans, according to The New York Times. This includes millions of homeless people as well as millions of others who are one just one small crisis away from ending up on the streets themselves.
Rachel Maddow explained how Trump's shutdown is undermining the work of the FBI and could put American national security at risk.
Newly announced presidential candidate Kamala Harris owned former Fox News blowhard Bill O'Reilly after he said he won't vote for her.
It's hard to find anyone who doesn't immediately regret their decision to hitch their wagon to the Donald Trump dumpster fire.
Donald Trump, with his lack of focus and poor work ethic, has shown that he doesn't really want to the responsibilities of his powerful office.
Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani backtracked on Monday from earlier comments that Trump pursued a business deal to erect a tower bearing his name in Moscow throughout 2016, saying his statements "were hypothetical and not based on conversations I had with the President."
In 15 months, Tom Steyer’s Need To Impeach campaign has grown to over 7 million Americans demanding the impeachment of Donald Trump.
The White House has been busted for photoshopping pictures of Trump to make him look skinnier and his fingers bigger.
While speaking at an MLK Day event, House Democratic Caucus chair, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called Trump the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jeffries said:
Hakeem Jeffries at the National Action Network: "We have a hater in the White House. Birther-in-Chief. The Grand Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. One of the things we've learned is that while Jim Crow may be dead he's still got some nieces and nephews that are alive and well."
The old narrative that Trump voters will stick with him through anything is crumbling as voters in key states are leaving him over the government shutdown.
Nick Sandmann, the white high school student from Covington Catholic High School caught on video mocking a Native American veteran who was drumming near the Lincoln Memorial where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for an end to racism in our country, issued a denial via a public relations firm on Sunday.
Trump and Pence showed up the MLK memorial, laid a wreath, and then ran away from reporters asking about their government shutdown.
By Robin Emmott and Tom Balmforth
BRUSSELS/MOSCOW (Reuters) – The European Union sanctioned on Monday the heads of Russia’s military intelligence and two of their officers blamed for poisoning a former Russian double agent in Britain last year, a decision Moscow dismissed as groundless.
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump pursued a business deal to erect a tower bearing his name in Moscow throughout 2016, his attorney said on Sunday, raising new questions for congressional investigators looking into possible ties between the president and Russia.
The former GOP governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, wrote in his new memoir “Let Me Finish” that President Donald Trump filled his administration with “riffraff.”
According to Christie, who many thought would become either Trump’s running mate or chief of staff, Trump avoided hiring good people who would guide him correctly and help him overcome his destructive impulses. Christie said that Trump needed people around him who were knowledgeable about how the U.S. government functions, but in most cases he didn’t get that.
The completely tone-deaf Vice President of the United States Mike Pence yesterday quoted the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to defend Donald Trump’s racist efforts to build a wall along the southern border.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that he will subpoena President Donald Trump‘s former longtime attorney Michael Cohen to testify before his committee “if necessary.” He also said that he already has set a date for Cohen to come before his committee to answer questions that Schiff and other Democrats have been waiting over a year to ask him.
Democratic Senator Kamala Harris from California was a guest on the ABC television show Good Morning America today and made a huge announcement which surprised nobody: “I am running for President of the United States” she told host George Stephanopoulos.
The debate over making special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is rapidly heating up and may soon come to a boil.
There is some evidence that Mueller may finish his investigation soon, and while most Americans and members of Congress want to see the probe’s results, not everyone agrees that this is required, or even a good idea.