Religious Freedom Tables Turned As Synagogue Sues Over Florida’s Abortion Ban
A South Florida Synagogue has sued over Gov. DeSantis’ new 15 week abortion ban because it violates their religious freedom.
A South Florida Synagogue has sued over Gov. DeSantis’ new 15 week abortion ban because it violates their religious freedom.
The purpose of the second bipartisan January 6th Hearing is to present the evidence that Trump knew he lost the election but decided to continue lying about his loss by spreading the Big Lie, which set the stage for the domestic violence of January 6th.
Republican Senator Susan Collins called the police after concerned citizens left a message in chalk outside of her home urging her to protect women’s rights.
What we have here is a party based on spittle-inducing ad hominem attacks. The party of backseat driving babies, pointing their fingers and offering no ideas to actually help people.
Republicans have become so disingenuous on the matter as to use lies about her record on it as a weapon against a Democratic nominee while bemoaning that a white male Republican nominee was even asked about alleged sexual assault.
Russia listens to Trump’s pleas for their help, wants to help, does help, and views Trump as a partner in their genocide.
President Biden is overseeing an economy that has unemployment over the last four week have hit its lowest level since 1969.
Uncle Joe – also known as the President of these United States, signed Democrats’ once-in-a-century, $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Over 520,000 people have died due to Covid-19, but every single member of the self-styled “pro-life” party has so far voted against the Covid relief bill. What could they object to that would justify the imminent, ongoing destruction of our country? In fact, a majority of economists polled by Reuters said they expect President Biden’s…
There isn’t anyone left in the White House or the Republican Party – aside from a few senators – who hasn’t sold their soul to Trump.
The ineptitude and general inability of President Donald Trump to function properly and appropriately in his role as chief executive were known well-before these past few weeks, but the coronavirus crisis has seemed to highlight what we’ve already understood for quite some time: if the United States ever faced a real crisis with Trump still…
Joe Biden’s spokesman Andrew Bates called the Axios column claiming the former Vice President was considering Jamie Dimon for Treasury “laughable speculation,” likening it to fantasy football.
Daryon Jackson, who was formerly Senator Kamala Harris’ political strategist, flagged video on Thursday of former Vice President Joe Biden saying he was looking for a VP who matched his ideals like Kamala Harris or another woman. Jackson then noted that it sounded like Harris was his top pick.
President Trump’s Wednesday coronavirus press conference did nothing to comfort Wall Street, and in fact seems to have spooked it as stocks “head for worst week since financial crisis,”
You wouldn’t know this from reading most media reports, but the job growth under Trump has actually slowed when compared to the last three years of President Obama’s presidency.
Republicans are giving Trump the go-ahead to cheat in 2020 by refusing any witnesses and evidence in his impeachment “trial” over his attempt to bribe a foreign power to help him cheat in another election in concert with their repeated blocking of election security bills.
Mercurial Trump has changed his mind now that he’s sent the deficit running toward the $1 trillion dollar mark. Now is the time to cut Medicaid and really stick it to the poors to pay for his $1.5 trillion in tax cuts that mainly help the rich.
President Trump’s impeachment lawyer Alan Dershowitz knows Trump is corrupt, and in 2016 said that Trump would continue to be corrupt were he to win the election. He also warned that Trump would “embolden and strengthen some of the fascist elements in our society.”
The FBI only interviewed nine of the ten witnesses they were allowed, and they didn’t bother with witnesses who confirmed other accusations against Kavanaugh. The FBI also didn’t use the entire week.
Impeachment of a U.S. president does not mean an immediate ouster from office, or as House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it on Wednesday, a “bye, bye birdie.”
Republicans are very busy running away from Alabama’s tough abortion law, even though they not only enabled this exact situation by stealing a Supreme Court seat from President Obama and then installing two exceptionally far-right extremists to the bench but also, their platform insists on personhood for a fetus.
It took a Canadian to point out how our mainstream media is failing us.
Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star Daniel Dale observed how our media fails to even mention Trump’s lies.
By Jan Wolfe and Richard Cowan (Reuters) – The “i word” – impeachment – is swirling around the U.S. Congress since the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted Russia report, which painted a picture of lies, threats and confusion in Donald Trump’s White House. Some Democrats say trying to remove Trump from office would…
Barely a month into the new Congress, financial lobbyists in Washington are already strategizing how to handle the star power of rookie Democrat lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
But Democratic women lawmakers from the House of Representatives, many of them dressed elegantly in white to celebrate 100 years of women having the right to vote, projected a picture of calm displeasure during Trump’s speech that made clear his version of unity was not one they could accept.
Pelosi is not just doing her job to finally put a constitutional check on this presidency — this crime and ethics violation ridden presidency, but she is quietly giving the women of this country the feeling that they matter and she won’t let this subjugating tyrant get off on hurting people anymore.
Economic growth is expected to take a hit in the current quarter because of the shutdown, a Reuters poll of economists showed on Friday, while a dearth of data is already impacting traders in U.S. fixed income and currency markets.
U.S. companies say the shutdown is hurting their businesses and can cause more damage if it persists.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s long-time ally and campaign adviser Roger Stone was arrested on Friday on seven charges of obstruction, lying and witness tampering as part of the U.S. Special Counsel’s Office Russia investigation. Stone is one of dozens of people caught up in a long-running investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016…
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. Sandmann’s denial has…
When President Donald Trump stormed out of a White House meeting with congressional leaders last Wednesday, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sat there silently, uttering not a word as the talks blew up, according to others in the room.
By Thu Thu Aung and Poppy McPherson YANGON (Reuters) – A Myanmar court on Friday rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act, saying the defense had not provided sufficient evidence to show they were innocent. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe…
But corporate filings and other documents found by Reuters in Iran and Syria show that Huawei, the world’s largest supplier of telecommunications network equipment, is more closely linked to both firms than previously known.
More Than 450,000 Are Working Without Pay, Many Of Whom Are Veterans, Including:
Appearing on Fox News’ Chris Wallace Show Fox News Sunday yesterday, Kellyanne Conway was asked by Wallace about the tape capturing last week’s altercation between a White House intern and Jim Acosta from CNN, and then circulated by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and InfoWars claiming the “altered video” was not altered at all, because it…
By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – San Francisco’s city attorney on Monday questioned the recent appointment of a new acting attorney general, saying in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice that his office may take court action if the DOJ does not provide a legal justification for the designation. President Donald Trump…
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision on Wednesday to oust Attorney General Jeff Sessions and replace him with a noted critic of Special Counsel Robert Mueller raised immediate fears among Democrats about the future of Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump appointed Matthew Whitaker, formerly Sessions’ chief of staff, as…
More LGBT+ candidates won in the U.S. midterm elections than ever before – and gender or sexual orientation was less of an issue than ever before, too, experts said.
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.
The media is going to continue to help Trump push his caravan lies until you tell them to stop by voting with your remotes.
Trump is set to waste untold millions deploying troops to the border for a non-emergency. On Wednesday, the Pentagon told Reuters that about 7,000 troops could be deployed if needed. The Pentagon refused to discuss budget. We have no actual assessment of threat, and in any case, as the BBC pointed out, the caravan is…
The odds, however, have always been against Sinema, a member of the House who is seeking to replace retiring Republican Jeff Flake. Arizona has long been a right-leaning state, one that has come, in a sense, to embody the divisive politics of President Donald Trump.
By James Oliphant TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) – Two years ago, Ohio and other states in the former industrial heartlands of the Great Lakes region catapulted Donald Trump into the White House. Today, in the final stretch to November’s congressional elections, they are showing that Trumpism has its limits as Democrats make surprising gains in races…
But the real reason they were there was basic: Donald Trump. They don’t like the president, and they were not about to vote for anyone, like Brat, who supports him.
“More than the policy, it’s the animosity he is fostering within the country,†Sneed said of Trump.
From the most powerful bully pulpit in the world, Donald Trump called Stormy Daniels “Horseface” Tuesday morning, as he mocked her for the lawsuit she filed against him after her defamation suit against the president was dismissed because Trump’s threats against her were protected by free speech laws.
Republican candidate Scott Wagner threatened Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf: “You better put a catcher’s mask on your face because I’m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes.”
DID YOU DO THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL?
An Anti-Kavanaugh ad by the Agenda Project targeting middle age men in Arizona, Alaska, Maine, and Iowa with a saturation-level buy asks.
Ronan Farrow disputed Republican Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley’s claim that Republicans submitted numerous requests to the other women who have made sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, citing Debbie Ramirez’s attorneys who claim that Republicans refused to even speak on the phone with them.
With growing support from women, Democrats are poised for major gains in midterm, new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll shows. Democrats are poised to make huge gains this midterm, and it’s thanks to three groups of women voters who have been important for Republicans: suburban residents, married white women and white women without college degrees….
“Another Yale Classmate Rebuts Kavanaugh: was he lying then, or last night on Fox? This classmate is now an award-winning history professor,” The New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer pointed out on Twitter Tuesday morning, after Brett Kavanaugh gave a softball interview to Fox News, during which they let him play the victim while he claimed he…
Bullish fighter Michael Avenatti, who takes on Trump and wins and wins and even if he loses an argument keeps winning the war, was just forced to make his account private on Twitter due to bots and Trump trolls he attributed to his representation of women regarding Kavanaugh. “I was just forced to make my…
Ted Cruz is in the political fight of his life — and he knows it.
The conservative U.S. senator from Texas is being outpaced and overshadowed by his progressive challenger, Beto O’Rourke, who is pushing to be the first Democrat in Texas to be elected to the Senate in 30 years.
The accused, that is, Mr. Trump- a man credibly accused of sexual assault 19 times before he was elected president – returned to his true form Friday morning after getting his ego puffed up beyond capacity at his rally last night, and attacked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, because it’s not enough that his cult have threatened her life and forced her family out of her home.
Andy Wright, Senior Fellow and Founding Editor of Just Security, investigations lawyer and law professor, noted that the burden is on the nominee to demonstrate fitness for a lifetime appointment, contrary to a criminal prosecution burden upon the accuser.
Senate Republicans struggled on Monday to salvage President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court even as the judge and the woman who accused him of a 1982 sexual assault offered to testify publicly and Trump called the nomination “on track.”
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – For President Donald Trump, the New York attorney general‘s office has been a nemesis for years, one whose sting has grown more potent during his rocky tenure in office. Letitia James, who emerged Thursday as the Democratic nominee for New York’s top prosecutor, is expected to create more…
On the morning of the 17th anniversary of 9/11, President Trump seemed determined to provide further evidence that the claims made in Bob Woodward’s new book “Fear” are true.
Despite his denials about claims in the new Bob Woodward book “Fear: Trump in the White House,” Trump did actually use the term “dumb southerners.”
In the 220 counties that flipped from voting for Democratic candidate Barack Obama in 2012 to Republican candidate Donald Trump in 2016, the average worker earned about $46,000 in the 12 months through March, up 1.9 percent from a year earlier. That compared with a 2.6 percent increase to around $56,000 for the country as a whole, according to a Reuters analysis of Labor Department data.
By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans loyal to Donald Trump scored victories in nominating contests for Florida and Arizona, giving momentum to the insurgent wings of America’s two main parties ahead of November elections. “Some worry that we are beyond a point in American politics where you can come…
President Trump admitted a direct connection between the Russia investigation into possible collusion by his campaign and his revoking of the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan in an interview with the Wall Street Journal late Wednesday night. That’s not even hype or inference. “President Trump drew a direct connection between the special…
Republican candidates backed by Donald Trump clung to small leads in closely watched races in Ohio and Kansas on Wednesday, with the narrow margins serving as encouraging signs for Democrats heading into November’s elections.
Trump’s former lawyer in the 1990s Jay Goldberg warned Trump that his former fixer lawyer Michael Cohen, “who is himself under federal investigation over his business dealings, was ‘not the type to be able to withstand the pressures of jail.'”
By John Whitesides (Reuters) – A hotly contested race in Ohio for a U.S. House of Representatives seat that has gone Republican for more than 30 years remained too close to call on Wednesday, in an encouraging sign for Democrats heading into the Nov. 6 elections. Republican Troy Balderson led Democrat Danny O’Connor by about…
President Trump’s tariff’s dealt another blow to a red state as a TV-maker announced it would close the plant in Fairfield Country, South Carolina announced citing Trump’s tariffs, resulting in layoffs for 126 jobs. The Winnsboro plant of maker Element Electronics will be closed in response to the president’s tariffs, the local paper The State…
Trump’s tariff on aluminum is projected to cost 20,000 Americans their jobs in beer-related industries and impose a beer tax each year.
Robert Mueller is investigating Trump’s tweets, so the president responded by attacking the Special Counsel on Twitter.
Trump is celebrating the GDP growth of 4.1%, but it isn’t such a great achievement when Obama’s economy had higher GDP growth in four separate quarters.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is using Trump’s Twitter account as part of his investigation as the special counsel is examining the president’s tweets.
After the White House banned a CNN reporter because they didn’t like her questions, the network responded with a statement that blasted the president and listed their reporter’s questions.
Outside experts have concluded that the Russian attack on the 2016 election did enough damage to swing 80,000 votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, which put Trump in the White House.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi showed why the Trumps made a big mistake by talking about people monetizing their government positions by breaking down how much cash the president and his family are raking in from being in the White House.
After Trump’s Twitter meltdown aimed at Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, two respected conservative columnists advised that the world ignore Trump’s attempt to distract from his Russia debacle.
Trump thinks that Amazon and The Washington Post are the same company, and they are out to get him.
Trump is trying to blame Obama for inventing the Russia scandal, and not telling him about it because he thought that Hillary Clinton would win.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, brought up the possibility that Trump may be compromised because he was laundering money for Russia,
We were promised that someone competent could manage Trump. So far, that’s not working out any better than it did during the campaign and for that matter, for Trump’s entire life.
Trump judicial nominee Ryan Bounds withdrew his nomination after Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said that he couldn’t vote for him, and he was going to be rejected by the Senate.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday that we need to brace for election interference in all 50 states. But she also pretended that Putin had not interfered on Trump’s or Republicans’ behalf in 2018.
Powerful House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) was asked by the press if Republicans have any interest in getting Trump’s tax returns, and he answered no.
Mitch McConnell’s top strategist, Josh Holmes, said that Trump’s attacks on the Mueller investigation are part of a Republican midterm election strategy to get out their voters in November.
Trump claimed during a cabinet meeting that Russia is no longer targeting the US. This is a false statement and a crime against his country.
Republicans have broad powers to check this President, but they are choosing not to use them.
Here are five things Paul Ryan could do to protect his country if he really wanted to.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace quickly debunked the lie that is the backbone of misspoke at the Putin press conference lie.
House Republicans spent the day after Treason Trump Helsinki debacle whining at Facebook, Google and Twitter about conservative content being discriminated against content for political reasons.
A U.S. Treasury Department decision to safeguard the identities of so-called “dark money” donors to politically active nonprofit groups spawned warnings on Tuesday that the policy could inadvertently aid foreign actors, including Russia.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday said he is willing to consider additional sanctions on Russia.
Yes, that’s all of the commitment we have from the Republican Speaker of the House, even after his party’s president announced in front of the entire world, while standing next to President Putin, that he backed Russia over his own country.
Putin admitted that he was “sympathetic” to Trump’s campaign during the election, which is a not so subtle way of saying that he wanted Trump to win.
Putin landed in Helsinki later than expected for summit with Trump. The Russian President landed in Helsinki on Monday about half an hour behind schedule for his meeting with Trump.
During his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, Trump went out of his way to paint Democrats and the media as the enemies of Russia and the US.
The American people should be nervous as Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin have been talking alone for two-plus hours.
Trump tweeted that the Mueller investigation is hurting relations with Russia, which the Russian government retweeted, as proof of their ownership of Trump and conspiracy to destroy Mueller.
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) highlighted the fact that Trump will be meeting with the ringleader of the attack on the United States during the 2016 presidential election.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has long prided himself on a public image of fierce independence and bravado built on an admittedly juvenile view of the world, but one that requires its hero, Himself, to be a Lone Rider. Today, that image was shattered.
Trump said that he might ask Putin to turn over the Russians that Mueller has indicted but that this happened under Obama and it was the DNC’s own fault that they got hacked.
As Trump tried to blame Obama for his potential crimes against his own country, it is important to remember that it was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who stopped any bipartisan action before the election against the Russian attack.
If U.S. President Donald Trump was inclined to be tentative when raising election meddling with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, the indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking in 2016 has made that approach a much harder sell.
Rep, Adam Schiff (D-CA) called for the Trump/Putin meeting to be called off because won’t stand up to Putin or put American interests first.
Contrary to Don Trump Jr’s Senate testimony, Roger Stone was in regular contact with senior members of the Trump campaign according to the 12 Russians indictment.