Armed gun owners rallied in Kentucky entering the state’s capitol building in Frankfort on Friday. The gathering was organized by the group We Are KY Gun Owners. They were spurred into action when Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam pushed for new gun control measures that led to threats of violence, culminating …
Read More »Senator Murkowski Will Vote No, Virtually Assuring No Witnesses at Impeachment Trial
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said she will vote no to hearing from witnesses during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, which all but ensures that Republican senators will have enough votes to block witnesses. With Murkowski’s Friday announcement, which followed Tennesee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander’s Thursday announcement that he too would …
Read More »Bolton Says Trump Told Him Ukraine Aid Was Tied To Biden Investigation
President Trump told then-National Security Advisor John Bolton, in August 2019, that the hold his administration placed on the military aid to Ukraine should continue until Ukraine officials announced investigations into Trump’s political opponents, including former vice president Joe Biden and his son. This contradicts Trump’s public statements that he …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren Wants to Start Erasing Student Debt on Her First Day in the White House
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has already pledged that, if elected president, she would erase student-loan debt for the vast majority of the 45 million borrowers in America. On Tuesday, she went one step further, saying she would use executive authority to begin wiping out student debt on the …
Read More »GOP Congressman Refuses to Apologize on Fox News, But Says Sorry on Twitter. Is He Gaming Media Platforms?
Did Republican Congressman Doug Collins (R-Ga.) have an epiphany that led him to apologize on Twitter less than two hours after he passed on two opportunities to do so on Fox News, or was he playing two media platforms to avoid who saw which message he was conveying? On Wednesday …
Read More »Everything You Need to Know About the Iranian Strike at U.S. Targets in Iraq
The blowback has begun. The question is: Is it over? Delivering on promises to retaliate after the assassination of general Qasem Soleimani, Iran conducted missile strikes on at least two U.S. bases in Iraq, including the Al-Assad airbase. The strikes were touted by Iran as a “successful attack … in …
Read More »Four Things We Learned at Tuesday's Trump Impeachment Hearings
WASHINGTON —With each witness, the House impeachment investigation moves closer to the president and the July 25th call between Trump and Ukraine‘s new president in which Trump asked the Ukrainians to investigate the Bidens and a debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 presidential election. Four witnesses testified before the House …
Read More »Uber CEO on Saudi Arabia's Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi: 'People Make Mistakes'
In a new interview with Axios, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi described Saudi Arabia‘s assassination of Washington Post journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi as a “mistake,” likening it to his company’s misfires with self-driving cars. “I think that government said they made a mistake,” he said when asked whether Yasir …
Read More »Fox News Poll: 49% of Voters Want Trump Impeached and Removed From Office
President Donald Trump received bad polling news on Sunday, with a Fox News poll and NBC/WSJ both showing that 49 percent of voters want him impeached and removed from office. Not surprisingly, the president dismissed the results saying that he has “the real polls” and that all others are “fake” …
Read More »Chicago Teachers Union Reaches Deal to End 11-Day Strike
The Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement with the city on Thursday that will bring an end to a 11-day strike that kept more than 300,000 children out of school. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the agreement after a closed-door meeting with CTU brass. “In the interest of our …
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