Has anyone been held accountable for the financial crisis? Photograph: MARCEL ANTONISSE/epa/Corbis The event was attended by Iraq war proponents of both parties, from Dick Cheney to Lindsey Graham to Hillary Clinton. The funeral featured a saccharine eulogy from the …
Infrared image of Hurricane Michael Photograph: NASA/NOAA/UW-SSEC-CIMSS, William Straka III It is a wonder that a state like Florida, which will get pummeled by Michael, could vote for someone that denies climate change. Think of how backwards the situation is …
President Donald Trump spent Saturday engaged in a deep dive into the backgrounds of the top prospects to fill an opening on the U.S. Supreme Court but hasn’t begun interviews with the finalists. Trump is at his Bedminster, New Jersey, …
Trump uses Fox News appearance to praise Putin as very strong, while Putin denies having compromising material on president Fresh off a controversial summit that drew widespread condemnation from America and its allies, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump struck a …
From healthcare to tax and immigration, Rev William Barber and the Poor Peoples Campaign are driven by faith to focus on the disadvantaged In his prayer at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem last week, a prayer delivered …
Washington (CNN)A Republican strategist who managed Sen. John McCain’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign said Wednesday he is leaving the Republican Party in the wake of the Trump’s administration’s immigration policies that have led to the separation of families. Schmidt went …
(CNN)Barbara Bush, the matriarch of a Republican political dynasty and a first lady who elevated the cause of literacy, died Tuesday, according to a statement from her husband’s office. She was 92. The mother of six children — one of …
Gayle Jordan, an openly atheist Democratic candidate lost in Tennessee’s 14 district on Tuesday. (Facebook) Openly atheist Democrat Gayle Jordan lost a special election on Tuesday to fill a vacant seat in the Tennessee Senate. Republican Shane Reeves won in …
Trump supporters in 2016. Photograph: Bill Wechter/AFP/Getty Images Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford. The study, …
(CNN)House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Wednesday he is not running for re-election and plans to leave politics. “Whatever skills I may have are better utilized in a courtroom than in Congress, and I enjoy our justice system more …