The loss for the administration means it now faces a high-profile examination of U.S. climate change policy during the trial that was due to begin on Oct. 29 in Eugene, Oregon but has since been postponed by the judge.
Days ahead of a contentious U.S. national election in which immigration has become a central issue, racist fliers saying “It’s okay to be white” have been reported on university campuses in five states, while synagogues in New York and California have been sprayed with antisemitic graffiti.
The 56-year-old Florida man accused of mailing 15 pipe bomb packages to high-profile critics of President Donald Trump will appear at a pretrial detention hearing in Miami on Friday morning.
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats on Friday asked the White House for more information about planning for a new FBI headquarters and released a government email that they said raises fresh concerns about the Trump administration’s handling of the matter. In the latest skirmish between top Democratic investigators in the U.S. House…
A white man from Kentucky pleaded not guilty to charges that he had killed a black man and woman in a shooting at a supermarket that is under investigation as a possible hate crime, prosecutors said on Friday.
A white man from Kentucky pleaded not guilty to charges that he had killed a black man and woman in a shooting at a supermarket that is under investigation as a possible hate crime, prosecutors said on Friday.
The rulings are a rebuke to Secretary of State Brian Kemp, whose office oversees the voter rolls and who is the Republican candidate in the state’s hotly contested gubernatorial race.
Trump fumed at a rally after thousands of people waited in line and showed up to see former President Obama in Florida.
The Pentagon rejected Trump’s request to illegally use US troops as law enforcement officers along the southern border.
In a first-of-its-kind event, more than 50 actors, comedians and YouTube stars will join a two-hour, live-streamed telethon on Monday night aimed at firing up younger voters, the age group least likely to cast a ballot.
A federal judge on Friday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to delay a lawsuit alleging that his business dealings have violated a constitutional anti-corruption provision, moving the case toward the crucial evidence-gathering process.
The FBI on Friday said it had recovered a suspicious package addressed to California billionaire Tom Steyer, a Democrat known for his ads calling for the impeachment of Republican President Donald Trump, exactly one week after federal authorities arrested Cesar Sayoc for mailing pipe bombs to Trump critics.
Twitter Inc deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting in Tuesday’s U.S. election and wrongly appeared to be from Democrats, after the party flagged the misleading tweets to the social media company.
Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen claimed that Trump told him in 2016 that his rallies are almost all white because black people are too stupid to vote for him.
As my colleague, Leo Vidal here at PoliticusUSA makes clear regarding Mr. Trump using the most blatant of racist ads to use as his closing argument for the mid-term elections by pinning it up on top of his Twitter feed: “It remains to be seen whether this will serve him — and his party —…
A heckler interrupted Obama who was campaigning for Democrats in Florida, so the former president responded by the destroyed the mentality and anger incited by Trump.
Two days after people walked out on Trump while he was still talking, Obama came to Florida and drew a crowd of 4,000 who waited for hours to hear him speak.
This could be the year that Wisconsin finally rids itself of Gov. Scott Walker as Democrat Tony Evers leads Walker 51%-45% in the governor’s race.
Democrats and voting rights advocates got another big win in Georgia as a federal judge has ruled that 3,000 naturalized US citizens must be allowed to vote:
By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Looking ahead to next week’s critical U.S. elections, American Indians say a recent U.S. Supreme Court move threatens to keep tribal members from casting ballots. The court upheld a state law in North Dakota that demands voters have identification cards with residential addresses, a requirement that…
Early turnout by young voters has surged ahead of Tuesday’s congressional midterm elections, powered by gains in states whose voters are pivotal to Democrats’ chances of winning back control of the U.S. Congress.
Republican Congressman Steve King blew up when a man accused him of sharing an anti-immigration ideology with that of the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue gunman who slaughtered eleven innocent Jewish people.
It’s possible that Andrew Gillum is the biggest surprise of the 2018 midterm election season. Very few people thought he could win a crowded Democratic primary for Florida’s governor, yet he did. Very few people think that a true liberal progressive who endorses all of the positions of Bernie Sanders can be elected governor of…
The rumors are true. It’s not just a right-wing conspiracy theory. George Soros, Tom Steyer, and other progressive multi-billionaires really are paying young Democratic activists to do door-to-door canvassing in swing states. Soros and Steyer, along with the other super-rich progressives who value their privacy, are members of what is being called a “secret billionaire’s…
Donald Trump’s tariffs have severely hit the bottom line of American farmers, yet many of them still support him. Farmers have been hurt in many ways by Trump, including lower prices for soybean and other crops they sell, and higher prices for metal grain bins and other equipment they buy. Yet according to a survey…
During the first 649 days of his presidency Donald Trump has told 6,420 lies, according to the Washington Post Fact Checker. And perhaps in a sign of his increasing desperation, over the past seven weeks of campaigning for the midterms his rate of lying has increased dramatically. During the first nine months that he was…
The organization formerly known as The Republican Party does not exist anymore. Donald Trump has destroyed it. With his appeal to racism, white supremacists and white nationalism he has transformed the Grand Old Party. It is no longer a conservative organization of affluent and educated voters. It is now a party of angry white people…
President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he will sign an extensive executive order requiring asylum-seekers to present themselves at a port of entry. In a television speech full of tough rhetoric designed to fire up right-wing voters for the midterms, he also said that he would hold the Central American refugees in tent cities…
