Obamas Buy Their D.C. Rental Home
Barack and Michelle Obama are now Washington homeowners. The former president and first lady...
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Closing EPA’s Great Lakes Office Would Put Nation’s Water At Risk, Dems Warn Scott Pruitt
CHICAGO ― Fifty-one million jobs, 90 percent of the U.S. freshwater supply and many...
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Americans Need To Know Trump’s Endgame For Syria, Duckworth Tells Constituents
PALATINE, Ill. ― Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) challenged President Donald Trump to state...
Read MoreBernie Sanders Warns Against Letting Tax-Funded Zika Research Fatten Wallet Of Big Pharma
The U.S. Army is several months into clinical human trials for a Zika virus vaccine, and many worry that the government will make a deal with pharmaceutical manufacturers that is ripe for price-gouging. Sen. Bernie Sanders...
Read MoreDem Lawmaker Calls GOP Health Care Repeal Bill An Act Of ‘Malice’ Not ‘Mercy’
House Republicans’ current efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act are more malicious than merciful, says one Democratic lawmaker. Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) issued a harsh rebuke of the GOP-led effort on Wednesday...
Read MoreBritish Parliament To Debate Withdrawing Donald Trump’s Invite For State Visit
British Parliament will debate on Monday whether the government should rescind its invitation to President Donald Trump for an official state visit. A petition to Parliament calling for the invite to be withdrawn has amassed...
Read MoreMark Cuban Has A Guess As To Why Trump Whacked Him Out Of Nowhere
The mere notion of billionaire investor Mark Cuban running for president in 2020 might be all it takes for President Donald Trump to lash out. Trump said Cuban was “not smart enough to run for president” in a bizarre and...
Read MoreThe ‘Failing’ SNL Just Scored Its Best Ratings In 6 Years
President Donald Trump, a self-described “ratings machine,” just helped “Saturday Night Live” to its best numbers in six years. The Feb. 11 broadcast featured Alec Baldwin as host for a record-breaking 17th time and...
Read MoreOklahoma Supreme Court Tosses Abortion Law On Hospital Admitting Privileges
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has tossed out a restrictive abortion law that effectively limited women’s access to a termination. On Tuesday the high court struck down S.B. 1848, a law that required doctors performing abortions to...
Read MoreBernie Sanders Has A Plan To Back Up A Major Trump Campaign Promise
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) said he will pursue new laws to ensure that President-elect Donald Trump’s lofty campaign trail promises to keep U.S. factory jobs in the country come to pass. “I will soon be introducing legislation...
Read MoreMike Pence Refuses To Rule Out Torture In A Trump Administration
Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Sunday did not rule out the U.S. using torture tactics like waterboarding to combat terrorism. “We’re going to have a president again who will never say what we’ll never do,” Pence said of...
Read MoreBen Carson Doesn’t Want A Job In Donald Trump’s Cabinet
Dr. Ben Carson is sitting out the next four years of Donald Trump’s administration ― at least officially. Carson, a onetime Republican candidate for the presidency, will not seek a position in Trump’s Cabinet “or any position in...
Read MoreRoger Ailes Hires Lawyer For Possible Lawsuit Against NY Magazine: Report
Roger Ailes, the founder and recently ousted CEO of Fox News, has hired a well-known libel lawyer for a possible suit against New York Magazine and its reporter Gabriel Sherman, Financial Times reported. Ailes has retained...
Read MorePhilippine President Curses Obama, Warns Him Not To Question Country’s Summary Executions
SAUL LOEB,MANMAN DEJETO/AFP/Getty Images Obscenity-prone Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday threatened to make a scene when he meets President Barack Obama at a regional summit in Laos if Obama challenges him on his...
Read MoreEven Donald Trump’s Supporters Are Telling Him To Release His Tax Returns
ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) has called on Donald Trump to release his tax returns. Donald Trump’s critics have been calling for months on the Republican presidential candidate to release his tax returns, to no...
Read MoreHuckabee Jokes About Life-Shattering Zika Virus To Attack Clinton
Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not...
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